Everyone who hasn't read Locke and Key should read Locke and Key. What an amazing ending too! Joe Hill tends to stick his landings.

I really liked NOS4A2. Can't recall what you may have found so offensive about the characters. I liked the big geeky lug she married. The final third of NOS4A2 has plenty of chilling setpieces, well worth returning to it!

Ayuh, hear ya, hope you enjoy. I super-bucket-listed my seeing-King-speak experience when, in 2007, he came to TO to accept the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. It was a pretty awesome night all around. Margaret Atwood and Clive Barker (wearing amazing patchwork pants) gave toasts to King,…

It's presumably exactly showing our age, but I agree with this ranking: Singles > Crow and Last Action Hero (tie) > Judgement Night. I thought the LAH soundtrack cassette (!) flowed so well, two awesome AIC tunes (LOVE the chorus of A Little Bitter) mixed in with solid hard rock and a decently catchy ballad. Even a…

That's a good one. My fave "fall" song is easily "Our Way to Fall" by Yo La Tengo.

If you're talking about Talking Book as a whole, I agree that it's not quite the timeless classic it should be. It's got a unique vibe within his discography, but the albums you mentioned plus Innervisions are superior. Not that you can objectively rate these things.

Sin Titulo was really cool. A great dark Coens/Lynch vibe from Stewart, pretty unexpected and special..

I like Pay in Blood! "Somebody must've placed a DRUG in your wine!"

I agree that Visions has to be on there, but c'mon guys, Like a Rolling Stone?! Stuck Inside of Mobile…!? Every Grain of Sand?! I can't and won't do a top ten list for Bob Dylan songs. Needs at least 30 if not 61.

I love the first side of Street Legal . Recently discovered the greatness of Where Are You Tonght? which is an all-timegreat Dylan performance.

"Saddle me up a big white goose,
Tie me on her and turn 'er loose,
Oh me, oh my, love that country pie!"
(Nashville Skyline is killer and Self Portrait is pretty great album, but the '62-'68 gravitas sort of evaporated round then)

I don't think Inherent Vice was meant to be taken as seriously as vintage Chandler. Detective/crime fiction was more of a context for sweet funny Pynchon riffing (with Doc being maybe one of TP's best characters since Benny Profane).

EXACTLY. This was my experience to a T.

EXACTLY. This was my experience to a T.

It's been 5 years since I read it, but I thought it was more ambiguous? It's 1969 but some of the references suggest at least 1970? Hilarious book either way. PTA is perfect for it.

Saga was awesome. Hazel is the cutest and "Ponk Konk" was heartbreaking. She wants her dad!

A good piece of advice that I followed and often pass on is to start Preacher with the second trade volume collection. It's weighty and thrilling, totally hooks you on the series. I revisited them recently and the first volume pales by comparison.

I have read his book! It is indeed terrific. He was at times a bit overly preoccupied with his poncy recently terminated bandmates, but even in this rich age of stalwart rockers' autobiographies I consider Renegade in the echelon of Dylan's Chronicles. Smith was generous to share some choice literary and cinematic…

That's a hilarious comment. Live versions of D&C are like a litmus test for whether I'm too drunk. If I get dizzy and need to lay down mid-theramin, then yup.

Yeah, Anthology also got me started on The Clean back in '03 and I've been a big fan since. I like solo Kilgour even more—The Far Now and Heavy Eights are great, understated and thoroughly classy albums. I am stoked that he's got a new one "Comin' On" (totally beautiful tune btw).