It made my list…

I'm Scots-Irish and I loved Kavalier and Klay. I think you have to have a tolerance for magic realism. But I think Chabon's best work is Wonder Boys. You should check it out; it's radically different from Klay and much better than its film.

I certainly don't think it's one of Delillo's best, but I think it is a very good book with great passages (most notably its brilliant beginning and ending and the first passage on the German poker game).

America The Book is definitely some kind of classic.

Talkingstove, The DaVinci Code is only a modern classic if the canon to which it is being compared is the Harlequin Romance series. I have read few lesser works in my life, and one of them- Deception Point- was actually Brown's. He is the worst writer I have ever read.

Cujo or The Dead Zone or Different Seasons or 'Salem's Lot or Pet Sematary. The Shining is pretty messy and more than a little over the top in its last stretch, but has compelling characters and a fascinating setting/mystery; if you've seen the movie, though, you've seen the better Shining.

I did. I love Lethem. Oh, well. Too many goddamn Jonathans about these days.

I thought Goblet of Fire's sentences suffered the same bloat as its narrative. Actually, I thought the sixth, second, and third books had the best prose of the series and the second had the best comedy. The problem with the Potter series is that there is little to it beyond the ingenuity of its world and the visual…

I thought McEwan's prose in Saturday was the equivalent of a lone man wanking furiously over a marble floor, but I guess that's just me. What did you like about it?

Middle-brow? Are you a fan of Armond White?

Strange & Norrell was both beautifully written and quite witty; I can't imagine being bored by it. It's Austen and Gaiman together; fantasy with a great deal of reality; a paean to imaginative literature and a condemnation of aristocracy and the university. I love it.

I Haven't Read Too Many Novels from the Last Decade, But…
…here are my picks:

The scene in the vet's office is just delightfully perverse.

"The Best Direct literary Response to 9/11"
I would argue this is the beginning and ending passages of Delillo's Falling Man, but I haven't read Twilight of the Superheros. What did you think if that novel, Todd?

"Creating a Community, and Tearing It Apart"
In my opinion, the best example of this in King's work is The Tommyknockers, in which we learn the whole history of its central town and come to understand its residents as they are consumed by alien entities. In it, King gives us an outside character to observe and come to…

Ahhhaaaaagghhmmmmm… Mrs. Gyro…

Fuckin' A, Eponymous. I could watch Combs in anything. Travolta mugs his way through half of his movies, and smugs his way through a third of the rest.

For Belushi's cameo, he was actually disinterred.

Connery was great in The Last Crusade, even though his character was a pussy. He nailed the script's comedy. So I'd say he elevated it, because the comedy was all it had going for it.

So, ninja flesh can only be broken by ninja weapons? Stephanie Meyer is even less creative than I thought…