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Simpsons
Does anyone know the story with this and the Simpsons' movie? Coincidence? Has King addressed it? I am sure he had to start writing this before the movie. Bet he was pissed ….

I'm still waiting for an AV Club response to the OP …..

Yeah …. I think that marketing departments in general have no idea what is actually in the books or what fantasy readers like. Sanderson wrote in his blog how much he hated all the WoT covers so I imagine he is not happy about this one.

I want to read it … but all I can think is "Didn't i see this movie with that yellow family everyone loves so much?"

I liked the Age of Unreason a lot and i read one Kay book and quite enjoyed it. Brust I an going to have to check out as everyone kkeps saying things about it ….

Yeah … i thought about him. My problem is that his dialogue doesn't really do it for me, or the characters maybe. But, what a plotter! The end of Mistborn… wow. Now that is how to wrap up a big series. It gave a fresh start that made you see everything differently and tied up the puzzle of how all the magic and races

I agree these are good songs and not as overplayed as some classic rock, but, jesus christ, I got so sick of this shit I left and lived in Europe for fifteen years. I move back and … THEY ARE STILL PLAYING THE SAME GODDAMN SONGS EVERYFUCKINGWHERE!!!!! I've been here for five years and it's jsut getting worse.

Agreed! I listened to "Joshua Judges Ruth" again yesterday and that album makes my top ten of all time. The three before it were great also. All in all, he really hasn't done a bad album.

Seconded for both of those. If you haven't heard Car Wheels on a Gravel World … well ….

I wouldn't put Earle and Yoakum in the same category. I saw them both in the Eighties and Earle's show was two hours of Stone's level debauchery, whereas Dwight was much, more traditional (except for having the shit-hottest guitar player on the planet in Pete Anderson). later, Earle rediscovered his inner Townes and

New Fantasy
I really slowed down my fantasy reading for a decade or so because it was just all kinda the same. Martin is great, but he seems to have Jordanitis right now (although the books, when released, have been fantastic so far). But there are a lot of good younger writers out there….

Sarah Palin has a book? I hadn't noticed ….

I would say … yes but only because everything is dead in the sense that these big movements that sweep the nation just don't happen anymore now that everyone can exist in their own little Internet world.

I said this above, but again, he NAILED the Savannah accent. he sounded exactly like my grandpa.

I will say as someone from Savannah who lived in the rest of the south, that he nailed the accents. His Savannah was perfect. I wish Brad Pitt had spoken to him before making Basterds. I live in Knoxville, TN now and when he said he was from here, it got by far the biggest laugh of the movie.

I know not everyone will read this, but it is still a bit depressing how few comments there are here compared to 2012 ….

No I meant Jamestown. It survived, but only 60 of the original 500 settlers made it through the first winter and subsequent settlements faired almost as badly.

I would go with just plain old rock. They are the very definition of a solid, meat and potatoes, rock band. Like Creed but not sucky.

The thing with an ending like that is that one (at least me) tends to think about it for awhile and then it makes you reevaluate things. I hated the sopranos ending when it first happened. then i thought about it and wrote about it and revaluated and now I think it's brillant. BSG had the opposite effect. The more I

Lost Writers
Steven King wrote a great column in EW about how Lost represented a new kind of TV, this multi-season story arc full of mystery all pointing towards an ending. His point was that the writers had to get the ending right or it would render verything before pointless and leave one feeling cheated. Well, that