Yeah, in my infrequent trips to the newbie forum, I have noticed that you seem to be a bit of a pariah.  It seems a bit silly since you are obviously not trolling the boards (that I've seen).  I say don't let it bother you…we are all "experts" in some areas of pop culture and "n00bs" in others….this just happens to be…

@avclub-c9bdbab0c40ccb86234b09fa350fbf50:disqus Good lord. Two of my favorite books but I can't imagine reading them simultaneously.  Also, the sheer volume of disconnected violent imagery you are taking in may be hazardous to your health.

Indeed, this is a shocking…

Luke [Shooting down a tiefighter]: "I got him!  I got him!"

I believe you're looking for…

If Lindelof gets to ruin another movie I love I'll…I'll just….I'll……give him my money, watch it in the theater, and then bitch about it on the Internet [sob]

I've… seen things you people wouldn't believe… Parallax burning off the shoulder of Orion…I watched green power rings glitter in the dark near the Guardians on Oa.  All those… moments… will be lost in time, like…tears…in rain…Time… to die…

Definitely The Lord of  the Rings.  My dad read it to me before bed when I was really young, then I picked it up myself in elementary school.  Then I read it again…and again…

Oh lord.  The Malazan Book of the Fallen.  I love that series but it is addictive, fairly dense, and so so long.  I got my little brother hooked on Martin and R. Scott Bakker but, while I've been tempted to give him "Gardens of the Moon," I'd really like him to keep going to classes.

I think @Scrawler2:disqus nailed it.  I was annoyed by the chapter at first but I quickly came around to what it was trying to do.  It distilled the themes about the passage of time and the power (and transience) of the things we care about by time shifting jussssssst a bit into a future that is only slightly off of…

Last month I read Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" and Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear." I am currently finishing up "Superman: The Unauthorized Biography." All very enjoyable and recommended…though "Superman" is a bit dry and suffers in comparison to last year's "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story."

"We're a bisexual nation living in denial, all because of a bunch of nerds, a bunch of nerds who got off a boat in the 15th century and decided that sex was something to be ashamed of. All the Pilgrims did was ruin the American Indian orgy of freedom." - Krysta Now

Ahem.  Watching Southland Tales is never a bad use of one's time.

A movie doesn't have to be written by Diablo Cody to come off as quirky.  I thought that, for all of its self conscious efforts to focus on relationships, in the end it was too concerned with the affectations of the thoroughly unrealistic characters to accomplish its goal.

Not only are they married but… *UM, SPOILERS IF ANYONE CARES*

I am going to have to agree on the quality of the cover and disagree on the quality of the film.  It is so self consciously quirky that its distracting and I really didn't feel a connection with any of the characters.  It is one of those movies that just screams "INDIE" in the most obnoxious way possible.

Agreed.  The first book is nearly perfect.  But I would agree with you regardless in a (likely futile) effort to avoid being impaled on your Tree of Pain…

That's near the top of my re-read list. What a great book.

I just finished Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" tetralogy. Wow.  It was just as narratively and philosophically complex as I'd been led to believe.

Oh you definitely chose the right two to skip then.  Well played…