One of favorite AV Club interviews, ever.
Loved it. There needs to be a second volume of THE TENACITY OF THE COCKROACH, just so this can be included.

Hey, I go outside a lot…

Audio version: I wish I'd thought of checking for that. I've been reading it out loud to my wife at night, but at this rate I don't know if I'll finish it before the discussion without reading ahead by myself.

I finally signed up for Facebook, but the Wrapped up in Books group there is almost dead silent. I think I have one of …two? non-staff comments there, though it seems like that would be a really great forum for the most zealous commenters here to get a jump start on our discussions. I know there's always about a…

Awesome. I'm really looking forward to reading that one.

I'd love to see a tracklist
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CLOUD ATLAS is pretty good so far.
Not too excitingly written, but full of cool ideas and an interesting build.

Agreed: WuiB just keeps getting better.

A really enjoyable discussion to read.
I'm glad some of the heavyweight commenters showed up, and I'm sorry I had to miss it. I was out hiking around a ghost town and forgot this was going on. One of these times, the AVC should just allow to it keep going until it dies out. A house I used to live in gave parties…

Give me back the hours in which I watched MINORITY REPORT. That movie was like a dumb video game written by a nine-year-old.

The rotoscoping made it all kind of interesting to look at, but the idea that it was used because it fit the book so well is kind of negated by Linklater using the exact same technique for his previous film. It's just a gimmick that he was enjoying messing around with. I thought it was ultimately kind of pointless.

And Jesus Christ!, do I hate the tendency of Christian believers in America to bring up Bible stories as if no one has ever heard them before. Your stupid beliefs are ubiquitous—we can't escape them; anyone who hasn't heard your fun little story probably grew up in Asia or the Middle East.

So Hitchens is going to be miraculously healed and that will be proof of your beliefs? What if he's not healed? What if he's healed not miraculously but by chemotherapy and drugs? What if you are a brainwashed nonthinker whose post here makes no sense at all? These are all questions we should consider.

This thread is kind of fun. Far more so than that Aasif Monvi guy. He is really almost never funny, I have to say. I can't believe how little airtime Kristen Schaal gets on the Daily Show while he's on twice a week.

I think whether the focus of New Path's single-mindedness is money or idealism or power, it doesn't matter. It's the single-minded hunger that reduces everyone's humanity. (Still, I think it could be money.)

Agreed, Misanthrope. In the archives for the Albuquerque Journal once, I came across a hilarious 1936 feature entitled something like "What Will the Future Be Wearing?" And it challenged a number of top designers to create what they thought people would be wearing in the year 2000. Sparkly. Very shiny and silvery…

Wait, she's the girl who obsessively stalked some guy she slept with so she could write an article about it, is she? Time to google.

I think of books like that as a little sci-fi subgenre I call "The Future So Far," or TFSF.

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 3…

Also: when you all say Dick is a "humanist," what do you mean? He was pretty out there and mystical in his beliefs. Do you just mean that he cared about humans and humanity?