This is How You Die is fantastic, but i can't fucking sell it because the cover is so terrible. i think even people who "don't like science fiction" would get a lot out of it, though- there is so much variation in the stories (super-poignant family dramas to scam artists to space marines) and they're almost all really…

not even gonna bother to googlar Borgen

first thing i thought of and i've never even watched the show; did a search and was mildly surprised to have skipped the article

at the time the show was on, i thought of them as Laura's San Giacomos (i was 14)

so he was like a bizarro Tiger Woods?

wow. i was home sick from kindergarten, as well, and remember my mom coming into the room and crying when i yelled that something had gone wrong with the shuttle.

yup, i made frequent use of a couple of their jams, as well. never cared for the walkmen for whatever reason, though

uh… omelette… du fromage?

Bloom County is one of my favorite things ever, but Calvin and Hobbes is a better comic strip. Breathed also retroactively fucked up Bloom County with that awful Opus strip.

duh, My Friend Dahmer, got the name wrong. but, yeah, fucking amazing book.

Dahmer is incredible, surprised not to see it here.

you ought to have known

first!

sounds like you need a date, dude

"drawling"

seven years later…

i actually installed a Bega Buddy

HG is the most glaring example of this- people don't think about how badly Scholastic wants to keep rolling out Harry Potter-style blockbusters, and the only way to do that is with a series (see also: The 39 Clues, which was literally designed by committee to be the next HP). Collins is not a terribly good writer, but…

i take it you've never heard Rock Bottom Remainders, huh?

publishers know they can make a shitload of money off a series, so they sign people to do a trilogy off their first book, which might've taken years to write, and force the author to pump out two more in a much shorter span of time, so it makes sense that the third book is often terrible.