They stole it from, Clint in "Unforgiven."  greatest anti-hero ever.

More religious mumbo jumbo.  He becomes the devil, and is punished accordingly."

No, there actually isn't a thing called "evil."

What part of "…stepdaughter and stepmom tag-teaming the pool boy" do you find off-putting?

to tmatthew, I would say that the work Celine speaks for itself but again, a study of the actual text is probably in order.

I have not read Vineland or Against the Day, but I do remember the parts you are talking about, and I must say that I disagree about their power.  We can go do a passage by passage comparison and breakdown, but I will have to save that for the weekend.  Until then, I will mark it down as a matter of taste, but I do…

Nice call on the Clinton Portis gaffe, but Frank Gore is definitely my favorite U back.  Masters of Atlantis is probably a better book than The Dof of the South, but the latter seemed to me more of a heartwarming old-fashioned comedy, I don't know.

That is why I tried to distinguish difficult or taxing, from "unreadable."  Journey to the End of the Night is not an especially difficult book, but it is emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually disgusting.  It is an incoherent babble populated by idiots.  It is unreadable in the sense that moving one's eyes from…

I am at work and I would give a more thorough enough response except that my boss is on to me and I cannot be cruising the AV Club comments sections willy-nilly, I must be more economical with my time.
I should clarify the term "unearned ambiguity," since that is the most idiosyncratic word in my previous comment.…

I wouldn't say The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow are unreadable books in the same way that Pierre or Journey to the End of the Night are unreadable books, but they are two of the most overrated novels in at least a century.  The characters are uninteresting for the most part, the humor is sterile and…

I have a feeling that most of the people posting here do not know the first thing about Ireland.  And a 100 years from now the world will realize there was no greater waste of time than the struggle for so-called independence among the various peoples that make up the Isles.

I don't know about you, but Londonderry is the town I grew up in.
In terms of the liberal propaganda you just regurgitated, keep saying Germany is your partner, keep thinking that the industrial warhorse of the continent is "partnering" with a country whose primary function in the international economy is to provide a…

Bloody Sunday was indeed a stain of the history of Great Britain, and John Major should have resigned the next day, but let's not forget who benefited from that horrible afternoon; it was the PIRA.  And one should not lose sight of the big picture, Bloody Sunday was a horrible atrocity that benefited no one but fenian…

THIS!  So good to see some reason finally employed on this issue.  But watch out, don't speak the truth too loud, the AV Club is evidently trolling with plastic paddies, fenians, and ignorant guardian readers.

No, not ignorance at all.  I grew up in the midst of the kind of irrational hatred that most people in the developed world just cannot comprehend.  
I have no hatred for any man, certainly not for the principled nationalists of Ireland who sacrificed so much for what they thought was the cause liberty, and who did so…

I am sorry, I know the truth hurts.

I always thought it was a testament to his independence of mind that he never lowered himself to defend or apologize for the Fenian pederasts and terrorists who did their best to bring Londonderry to ruin.

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