This movie actually made it impossible for me to watch horror movies for a good 10 years because it terrified me so much. I think my parents rented it when I was about six and I cowered on the couch looking through my hands the entire time.

Speaking of couch climbing, even though this episode as a whole is scarier, the moment that Bob climbs over the coach in the second episode of season 2 is the scariest single image I have ever seen on network TV. It is terrifying.

Thanks Tea Rex. I'll have to check it out.

I really enjoy this little sub-set of AVclub book nerds. You guys come up with the best book suggestions. I just hope they keep the Book Q&A going. I was worried they'd give up on it when we didn't get one last month.

Well since I am a Librarian, my mission for the next Book Q&A is to find you something written by Le Guin that is perhaps not quite as fantasy or sci-fi. I might fail, but it will certainly be a challenge.

Yeah, the Joe Wright version is gogeous, it's become my go-to "feeling bad" movie. Though, Colin Firth will always be Mr. Darcy to me.
I have read Persuasion, but it has been a little while, and from what I remember the ending is a bit rushed because Austen died before it was completely finished. I should read it…

Have you read the Earthsea books? They are more fantasy than sci-fi, so if you want to try some Le Guin, but don't like sci-fi, you might really enjoy Earthsea. Wizard of Earthsea is the first one.

Possible all the dudes were reading it for the sex scenes. I remember a lot of sex scenes. Either that or they knew exactly what books to carry around in order to get laid. Nothing says sensitive 90's male who will treat your right like a copy of Mists of Avalon.

Dune is pretty great, especially if you like world bulding. It creates one of the most fully realized sci-fi worlds of any book I've ever read. That and it has a pretty great hero/messiah adventure plot.

I also applaud Mockingjay for trying to show how the kind of violence and trauma Katniss goes through doesn't simply go away. I can't think of too many YA books where the main character has PTSD through the entire novel. But as far as plotting, yeah the book is a bit of a mess.

He looks almost exactly how I pictured Norrell, though maybe a bit younger. I don't know the actor that well, guess I should seek out the Sherlock movies?

I was wondering if anyone else had an issue with the very end of the book. I wish he had left it a mystery.

I have obviously not read your spoilers, but by the time they post another Book Q&A next month (or in two months) I hope to have finished the series. I'l let you know what I think!

Aww, Thanks Dr. Dastardly. But if you met me you'd probably see that I am a bit more Librarian than Hipster. Except for the glasses and my tendency to wear knee high boots.

I adore Pride and Prejudice, probably my favorite book and I re-read it almost every year. I think I enjoy hanging out in a fancy, simple, witty fantasy world where the smart girl gets the hot and rich guy.

Scrawler Did you know that the BBC is doing a miniseries of Strange and Norrell? They actually just cast the two lead actors. Eddie Marsan as Norrell and Bertie Carvel as Strange:

Isn't Tom Sawyer an asshole in his own book too? Could Tom Sawyer be America's first douchebag?

Second the Bossypants suggestions. It is a great audio book.

I was a philosophy major in college, so really loved the idea of having nested worlds of platonic forms in Anathem. And if you don't like the philosophy/math stuff, you just have to wait a few hundred pages until it turns into an action/adventure story.

Yay! We finally get the book Q&A back. It's been a light two months thanks to work, but I did finish the first of the Earthsea Series by Le Guin.