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Lord of the Rings
I'm amazed that nobody else has mentioned this yet. My dad read the whole series (including The Hobbit but not Silmarillion, thankfully) over a long string of bedtimes. He read from the old paperback copies he'd bought when they first came out. I loved it, reread the series on my own a few times, and

My contracts proff renacted The Paper Chase each year.
Thankfully, he didn't have us stand when we answered questions, but he did have us read the "hairy hand" case for the first day of class and grilled a random student on it. Not every class was that old-school, but when I saw Paper Chase I was amazed how much it

How did Adele keep her relationship with Victor a secret?
Presumably, the old lady Victor brought flowers has to be in on it. If not, she'd call the dollhouse and tell them her date walked out on her. But it sure didn't look like she was expecting Victor to run out the back as she went to get a vase for the flowers.

The first three were excellent, but the series started going downhill when he bit off more than he could chew in book four. Up until then, the main charcters would split up for separate adventures but then reunite for the climax. In a similar vein, the only plot thread remaining after each climax was the main arc of

That terrible mistake ruined the entire review for me. For shame, Noel. For shame.

Things that still suck about the mobile site
Why isn't all of the site's content available on the mobile site? Why no books, games, or DVD? Why no newswire stories like this one, av blog, savage love, or videocracy? Why no YouTube links in the articles? Why does the latest feature article stop at #5 when I try to read