The Tombs of Anak is the book you're talking about, and it was awesome. My favorite was the one where a guy is leading a hippie cult on some island that is apparently still undiscovered in the 1990s. I grew up a preacher's kid and I'm not religious anymore, but I enjoyed reading alot of Peretti's books.

1. Amanda was kidnapped and escaped, but nobody believed her.
2. The kidnapper then takes her sister to lure her back.
3. Eventually she finds the kidnapper, along with a bunch of photos of his victims.
4. She kills the kidnapper.
5. Instead of telling the police what happened, she lies for no apparent reason.
6. Sometime…

If you don't want to be dehumanized, you should try not killing little girls who want to go to school.  Once you do that, you're going look pretty bad no matter how many graduate students think of creative politically correct terms to describe you.  You're right in saying that lack of thinking has been a problem in…

Is calling the Taliban our enemy really jingoistic?  I think that's what they set out to be, and they would probably be hurt if we regarded them as anything less.

Such a great guitarist.  RIP.

This album isn't very good, but I agree that it doesn't sound much like the Postal Service. Just because Ben Gibbard got up one day 8 years ago and decided to make an album on his computer doesn't make him the only person in the world allowed to use Pro Tools. And Young's lyrics suck, true, but so do Gibbard's. I…

Alison Brie
Damn.

There actually was no mention of a "hate list" in the article
Gaiman just made that up.

First?
For the last.

This album is very similar to the Postal Service
but I wouldn't call it a rip off. The lyrics are different (childish, maybe, but different) and the production is much lusher and upbeat. To say that someone can't make poppy electronic music after the Postal Service is like saying that nobody should be allowed to…

His portrayal of the Christian characters in Needful Things was less than flattering, to say the least.

Right on. In defense of the writer though, he probably was assigned to do a column of a certain length about the show, and didn't really have that much to go on considering how boring it is. One of the perils of pop culture writing I suppose.