I don't see why not.

I think the comparison between The Shining and Marienbad is apt and even unavoidable.

That's why the movie's better.

"almost certainly the most complex novel ever written, yes including Finnegan's Wake"
Now, now @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus — there are a few you may have overlooked here.  O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, Beckett's Molloy - Malone Dies - The Unnamable trilogy, Witkiewicz's Insatiability, Pynchon's Gravit…

I bought a paperback of Pale Fire at a used bookstore many years back.  (When used bookstores still existed, I suppose.)  When I got it home I found that a student had owned the copy and he or she had written extensive, and rather dimwitted, notes in the margins, trying to puzzle out the book's intricacies.

1. Denny entered rehab, turned his life around, and released a series of motivational videos entitled You Can Too!  He currently lives in Boulder with his partner and a golden retriever named Johnny.

I guess I'd always supposed The Kid got crushfucked.

They do after a couple of days if you don't eat them.

Well, the tornado would seem to be the "whirlwind" from which God speaks in the book of Job, and God does spend the next several pages telling Job not to think he can possibly understand what's up with God.  So this reading seems plausible.

My favorite "error" in The Shining comes just after the argument between Nicholson and Duvall about taking Danny away from the hotel.  He goes storming out of the room, passing us, and as he does he gives a furious direct glare straight at the camera.

Yeah, I've always assumed that song was about anal.

Also, He Who Walks Behind the Rows is back there somewhere.

Nice story, thanks for linking it.  It makes me think of V. or The Crying of Lot 49, in which the obsession with pursuing a mystery becomes more crucial than the actual content of the mystery.

It was always disappointing to me that Douglas Adams, in one of the later books, chose to clear up the mystery of why the bowl of tulips thought "Oh no, not again" in the original Hitchhiker's.

Mention of Charo always makes me think of her appearance on The Carol Burnett Show.  Carol played her mother, wearing the same outfit as Charo, but with huge saggy breasts dangling down to her stomach.  It was pretty amusing.

In throwing that hermit a party, Captain Stubing once again openly defied the Prime Directive.

Hey, maybe they could get Chevy Chase to do it.

God damn these electric sex pants!

Apparently Kurt Russell has been so fraught about this decision that he has become unstable, and begun randomly accosting passerby to ask their opinion.  Why, just recently he stopped a man on his way to work and demanded of him, "Should I quit this film?"

I probably phrased that badly— just to be clear, I really do like that movie a lot.  And the imagery is really exceptional.