Take them with you! We don't want them!!

"There are only two days in here. The day you go in, and the day you get out."

I read a bunch of his stuff back when it was first being published. White Noise is great, as is Libra, but I pretty much burnt out on his work after Underworld. Diminishing returns is exactly right.

The Long Ships is so much fun.

Absolutely. I really disliked those books, and had a hard time with White Jazz, too, the first time I read it. We'll see if I like it more the second time through.

Characters' disgust with homosexuality is a huge theme in the LA Quartet, and it gets pretty wearying. I think my favorites of his work are the first three books of the LA Quartet, and American Tabloid, with a special award for the book he wrote before Black Dahlia, Killer on the Road, because it is ridiculously nuts.

I'm not even here.

I've been rereading James Ellroy's LA Quartet, and am close to the end of LA Confidential. These books are tremendously entertaining, but are dense with exposition and chock full of casual (and not so casual) racism, sexism, and homophobia. But at least they aren't as bloated as The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's A…

You Suffer by Napalm Death.

No scifi cusswords can surpass the profoundly ridiculous ones used by Isaac Asimov. Space! Saturn's Rings!!

Oh, hai ass!

A Time to… *hunches over, panting*

It actually can't be two things! We've been duped!

The day is still young.

Concession speech. That's rich.

It's also pointless and counterproductive to start arguing over who has suffered most. At the end of the day, we're only going to make a better world by confronting all of this shit, rather than having a competition pitting us against one another over who has the most scars.

Actually, these are more like tragedy jokes.

Not soon enough for me.

They can keep every country musician who started their career after 1980.

*Charlie Pride and Darius Rucker cry in their beers*