2666! Yes. I really would love a good excuse to have to read Bolano's 2666. I've suggested that one once already, in another WuiB thread. It's long, but it's apparently a pretty fast read that takes most people only a couple of weeks. Everyone I know who's read it told me they just tore right through it.

IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS is perhaps my favorite O'Brien novel. But when that guy is writing even tangentially about Vietnam, he can do no wrong.

He is fun. But I've already read IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT…. Something else!

I just read UNDERGROUND, my first read by Murakami. I didn't his prose was very exciting, at least not in the translation I read, but I did like his insights and his overall vision.

"Sandusky" is a great choice…
…but I might be biased, as my daughter's name is Anodyne.

Maybe it wasn't a single, actually. It was on his first "Best of" compilation, though.

"Last Year's Man"
on Leonard Cohen's SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE. Like reading the Bible through a kaleidoscope, while on acid in a monastery. Like the complete history of the Holy Land, in a pop song, as conceived by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Totally agree with Todd
about "Sooner or Later." That may be my very favorite Dylan tune, and it just dominates BLONDE ON BLONDE. The piano in that thing…wow. I played it my first time out of the house after my last daughter was born, driving down the road alone through a sunny suburbia, and it just captured and…

I don't do either of those things, but I do give things a lot of thought. Probably like every other commenter here. I do, however, think that good taste is something that requires some cultivation, and wallowing in stuff meant for kids is all too easy. See, for instance, the almost monopolizing popularity of book…

Yeah, I don't understand the Arthur love either. I was repulsed by those books as a kid, and am repulsed by them as a parent. Ugly to look at, and too intentionally moralizing.

I really would enjoy that book. But good luck selling it to the larger public.

Some of these things deserve recognition and enjoyment by adults as well as children
but others it's just kind of sad to see that people still obsess over—particularly the hacked-out cable kids series. There's really some merit to being adult and enjoying more sophisticated adult fare.

People who play video games during college classes are people I also suspect will later have that weird fetish where you dress up as giant babies and have women feed you milk from bottles. What incredibly infantile behavior. It's astounding to me that there's not more of a stigma to it. Seriously, grow the fuck up,…

When my brother-in-law got married, his new bride trapped the entirely family including myself and insisted we watch the California Raisins Christmas special because she insisted it was her family's annual tradition, and it was so great. It really wasn't very great at all. In fact, it made me wonder if she was a…

I don't think I've re-read THE PIGMAN as an adult, but I sure did love it as a kid. I even liked the sequel, though it was basically the same story with another old man.

I want that boxed set (though I already have all the books), but I heard that the binding is total crap and falls apart quickly, and that a number of the strips were changed for it to be more p.c.

"Jungle": one of the best songs ever.

This—

I worshiped Roald Dahl's books as a kid, and I keep all of his books in my house for my kids because I think they will warp them in a way I consider to be fairly positive, but as an adult, I have to say, that guy just phoned it in almost all the time.

Thanks, WR. I wish I'd thought of what you said about Muldoon replacing Marduk before you thought of it—that's like the logical conclusion of what I merely gave the premises to.