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He had my hometown a few weeks ago. FX does really good demographics research, I guess.

I'm just reiterating what everyone else said, but the whole outsider POV of House's team was easily the best part of the whole season.

Durst WAS on House, playing a bartender for the two episode amber-death arc. So…who knows.

Also, as he said, the cancer was located in the brain, where the cancer cells aren't passing the blood brain barrier. They wouldn't have picked it up until they opened up the spine for the fungus treatment, because CSF in the spine shares blood flow with the brain.

Yup, soon it will be like donating a kidney. I think all evidence is that it's fantastically successful - why it isn't widespread at this point baffles me.

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I thought Perfect Hair Forever was hilarious.

Completely agreed - when it comes to single malts, the difference between 15 and 30 year is about triple the price, with a very small taste difference. I'll stick with 12 or 15, thankyouverymuch.

Jim, I like your list, but would also add the Zen of Fish, by Trevor Corson.

HP, it's funny you say that, because from what I've experienced as a psychologist from the gen pop reading that book, all it did was perpetuate the same stereotypes of autistic spectrum people that have been around since rainman.

Somehow, given the list that you guys put up, it doesn't surprise me at all that none of you read HoL.

i understand why a lot of people didn't like magicians, and i see all it's flaws, but it's still the only book i read cover to cover in a day this year, and i enjoyed it for what it was, so it's on the list for me.

I actually looked in my closet to see which books I liked that AVclub didn't mention, saw America, and forgot to write it in my comment. But yes, that totally belongs on the list.

HP, what I mean is that the incredible detail given to the kid's condition was a bit too perfect for the plot. Obviously that was done on purpose, but it came out too neatly for me.

no name joe, it's funny, because i like david foster wallace, and the two books are actually pretty comparable, but i breezed through HoL and got slogged down in IJ.

Left off
Nonfic:
Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain
Drink - ian gately, and Salt - mark kurlansky
God isn't Great - hitchens
infamous scribblers - eric burns
a brief history of nearly everything - bill bryson
the ambient century - mark pendergrast

spanking the donkey was good, as was the great derangement, but i'd argue that those two books together would probably be on the list…not separately.

I found both curious incident and kavalier to be completely overrought and bogged down by their own reviews. Between the two (very comparable) writers, I preferred Fortress of Solitude much more than kavalier and clay.

Thank you for posting this so fast. House of Leaves is, I'd argue, the best book written in the last two decades. I think it's great that y'all included Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but leaving out HoL is unconscionable.

Cracklin' Rosie, get on board….I can turn invisible if I try really haaarrrrdddAAAAAAGGGHH! I think I busted some stitches!

QC has been running about 4 years too long.