Oh dear, does he usually do that? The City and The City is the only one of his I've read, and I found it too thin a premise to justify its girth and just generally a little dull.

Is he from the future?

I might actually try that line on the guy I know who's writing a monograph on it.

"I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason"    John Keats

What about the little known Russian writer known only as 'Sirin'?

@avclub-b3a2a8592133a41f00f271712390f206:disqus  That's awesome. You should have written notes criticising the notes and taken it back.

I think what this is missing is a Nick Fury/Nick Furry thing.

I hope you put a towel down.

Am I the only person who about halfway through the film realised that the ending was obviously going to be him spinning his top and us not knowing how it falls? I'd already decided that I couldn't be bothered to jump through the hoops that the film wanted me to since it was so obviously engineered to make the audience…

Was this a famous douchebag writer?

I think metacommentary is the right word. Pale Fire functions in rather the same way, being in some ways a commentary on the pointlessness of the type of textual exegesis that the form of the novel takes.

Hand ME the keys you fucking cocksucker.

In some ways that's the most puzzling thing about the film.

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus I think the enmity between the French and Americans has only come about in the last twenty years or so, whereas we've been fighting wars against the French for centuries so it's more deeply ingrained in the culture. 
I'm talking about lumpen idiots though: I don't really…

It's funny, I have this ill-formed yet quite virulent hatred for Vice. I'd have thought I could just ignore them, but no. It also annoys me that they would be pleased to hear that I hate them, rather than feel indifference toward them.

They do an article on opium farmers in Afghanistan. While on Ketamine.

Call Lenny Kravitz!

@avclub-6258e285eeb51b21d01ffe9cb9f9c1d1:disqus Pro-British actually, but the difference is negligible.

The funny thing is, I was about to type that very response.

Yeah I'm Russell Brand irl.