It was also totally awesome. Shanking my older brother to death, taking his shit and fleeing the country was an immensely satisfying way to spend a Saturday.

Oops, that was a typo, I meant Satanic Verses to be the second reference.

Real estate novelist makes me think of Chevy Stevens:

I like Donald Glover but I saw him do an act on some stand-up show and he was just absolutely terrible.

I'm so Canadian I thought that was the joke Alcopheliac was making.

It's sad that Inception probably only exists because Nolan had massive sway from the Batman franchise. It seems if we want a big budget Hollywood movie that's actually original we have to rely on powerful directors to force it on the studio.

I wonder if these gritty reboots will just look ridiculous and self-important in fifteen years. I seem to recall the 1989 Batman being dark and dramatic and amazing, and now it looks like a cartoon (an enjoyable cartoon, admittedly). Maybe one day the Dark Knight will look corny and stuffed full of hammy performances.

lol, totally. Timecop was a dumb idea then and it's a dumb idea now.

Total recall made $198m on a $125 budget, so after video and tv sales it will probably make money eventually. That one probably just hit way lower than they expected. Robocop has made $240m on a $100m budget, so even going by the industry rule of thumb that a movie has to make double its production budget to see…

Bob really is too hard on his Full House years. Is the reason he is a millionaire and famous, so he should be more thankful.

Perhaps he's disqualified from this list on account of being dead but mordechai Richler developed some serious gaps at the end of his career. His last two book are his best but I think there's about a 15 year gap between his last book and his third to last.

No, my point was that while I understand they did accept that she has a right to reject him, they seem to think its fine to withhold the information upon which she may reject him until later. At any rate, it seems like despite some deviations in opinion everyone is pretty closely aligned in how they view the thing.

What I mean is, they agree she has a right to reject him, but shouldn't that right be at the beginning, not after she's fallen for him in a sexual relationship?

Yeah but at what stage does she get to reject him?

I hate being sick on vacation.

What intrigues me about some of the comments of potential violence is that Marcus is setting himself up for a really bad situation. So he's worried about violence because he's in a conservative part of the country and people may react hatefully - well how are people going to react when they start accusing the trans…

I understand your point about the fertility thing, and I'm not really sure if there's any way for me to write my way out of it. Rather then move the goalpost I'll concede that, but I stand by the whole 'reasonable expectation of a penis' thing.

I had no idea what to make of Son of the Circus. I liked it, but it did not feel like a John Irving book at all, it was like reading a totally different writer at times. My own theory on that book is that he pulled rank on the publisher and editor and they were forced to print a book that was easily 100 pages longer…

If he knew there was a high chance disclosure would make the person go bananas, and also knew he would have to disclose eventually, how exactly does Marcus get off the hook from not disclosing? Whether she should react that way is irrelevant, as it's basically abuse to sleep with someone knowing they may feel…

It's more than a good rule of thumb, it's the proper thing to do. It seems like NCA, Dan, and that doctor have completely disregarded the fact that this woman might want a relationship with someone with whom she can have real vaginal intercourse and even have kids with. The fact that they could use toys and adopt is…