You'll see some Bolano love elsewhere in these boards, Plumcot. I, for one, am in love with The Savage Detectives.

Strange & Norrell goes down more easily than any other novel of its length I have read, Incan.

Care to enlighten us, Pubes?

Ah, but I really don't think there's much cause for jewelry-giving until after the vagina-stuffing has long ago commenced, ET. The jewelry is just like signing a lease on the vagina, to horribly mix a metaphor even further. Hell, some jewelry is a vaginal rent-to-own agreement.

You wouldn't give up family, friends, and your soul in return for lifelong domination by an obsessive creep?!

You go, guy.

They have been in that cabin for three months.

As does every Kurd.

I recommend "Text" from My Weakness Is Strong.

I don't know. If I had a dwarf handy, I'd punch him.

Who needs pregnancy and abortion play when you can simply chain each other together, naked and facing each other, so that there's really no excuse for not wanting to have sex right now, or ever.

Well, you need to wear something to keep from getting the herpes.

Fifth base is TVTA.

Maybe it bothers you because it's condescending, tasteless, manipulative, and unbelievably boring.

…And that the show sucks these days.

A brain-eating Sylar would not only remind America of Heroes, it would also perfectly summarize the series.

The last, frustrated breath of vaudeville.

"On Stage You're a…?"
Ms. Cyrus appears to have said star, but I believe her lips read, "marionette."

That's great, Deck.

Just Giving, I think you fundamentally misunderstand Cormac McCarthy. The novel is not proper "speculative fiction;" it is about the deevolution of human decency and the urge of an individual to impart to his child those things that have served as the bedrock of civilization. It is about standing against the tide of…