I'm not sure most people get their partners from others peoples' marriages.

White and Everything Will Be Alright are both very good. Not Pinkerton level. But much better than anything else after it.

Source?

This looks great. I laughed several times.

I actually love The Scarlet Letter (I'm the guy!) except for the interminable first 40 pages or so, at the Charterhouse. But I read it as an adult, of my own free will. I wasn't forced to read it in high school and I'm pretty sure I would have hated it.

Stop doing this stuff. Treating Trump like a joke doesn't work. It only gives him exposure and reinforces his supporters.

Great book and very funny too, if you can get over the sheer existential horror that comes from the possibility of having your life destroyed by a reckless tweet. I love Ronson.

That makes so little sense it's almost beautiful. But no, it still sounds awful.

So, someone spoil me: How exactly does Banner die? I thought he had been firmly established to be pretty well indestructible.

Thanks for the great response. I agree with your analysis of the top half, from what I remember. It's enough to make you wonder why Salinger didn't, if he didn't want to create a whole new family, do something like he did with Catcher, where there's sort of alternate timeline metafictional story that tells that tragic…

Oh, wow, it seems sort of rare to meet someone who's read anything besides Catcher and 9 Stories. I remember wondering about the reasoning behind that suicide when I read it, but it's been too long for me to discuss it intelligently. Might be time for a reread!

I liked Meany but I've never been able to crack any of his other stuff. FOr me, he seems like a "the first good you read by them is good, the others are irritating" kind of thing.

Hawthorne is an excellent, very strange writer who's constantly underrated because we force high school kids to read The Scarlet Letter, which is a great book but what high schooler is going to appreciate it?

Related to my above comment, you've probably read them, but if you haven't read the Glass books/stories, you ought to—Bananafish feels slight to me without that context.

It won't matter if you're not much of a fan, and his stories stand up on their own, but his bibliography is so small and connected that his stories gain a lot from being read in tandem with his four books, including Catcher which has some metafictional connections to the Glass family.

I love Pratchett and like Gaiman, plus that end times stuff is catnip for me, but Good Omens was a big letdown. But I believe Fuller could do something great with it. But is he adapting it?

The Warden is maybe my next book. I couldn't bring myself to skip to Barchester Towers. My first Trollope too!

I'm reading a collection of Butler's short stories, Bloodchild. The title story was great, and a couple of the others are very good. It's a mix of old (her first published story) and old so the quality is mixed, but her concepts are so weird and good.

Your name may be too close to the OTHER extremely skilled motorcycle stuntman.

Sorry, after a lifetime of hearing it, I get that. It was a joke.