Yeah, I mean, Faulkner's not a good choice for a light read, but the man was a genius.  Everything I've read of his is incredible.

@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus I'm assuming you've also read "Absalom!  Absalom!"  which Quentin partly narrates second/third-hand to his roommate at Harvard?

Yeah, I tried half-heartedly making my way through the first chapter a couple of months ago and remember thinking "Is it just me or is this even more confusingly, Faulkneresquely stream-of-consciousness than usual for Faulkner?"

SPOILERS, DO NOT READ THIS SHIT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ SPOILERS, CUL-DE-ZACK:  Yeah, there was a lot of great stuff in AFfC.  Brienne is a pretty awesome character, and her trek through war-ravaged Westeros gives the reader a glimpse of what shit lives your average Westerosi have been living during the War of the…

Glad to hear I have a lot to look forward to, thanks.  Not that I've not liked it so far, but a lot of what I've been reading thus far seems to be mostly setting the stage for what's to come, and I've primarily been focused on "Sandman" the past couple of weeks.

Have you read "Siddhartha"?

Come on, surely you can add something a little bit longer in addition to those slim novels, like the collected works of Tolstoy or something.

ASOS is probably the best book in the series in my (and most people's) opinion.  The bad news is that AFfC is widely regarded as the weakest in the series.  And yeah, I'm kinda dreading the fact that I'm probably going to feel the need to re-read the series again to reorient myself with all the shit that's going on…

ASOS is probably the best book in the series in my (and most people's) opinion.  The bad news is that AFfC is widely regarded as the weakest in the series.  And yeah, I'm kinda dreading the fact that I'm probably going to feel the need to re-read the series again to reorient myself with all the shit that's going on…

Um, speaking of kinda funny, dark fantasy have you read Lev Grossman's "Magicians" books?  I feel like most commenters on here have heard of it, and opinions seem pretty sharply divided between it being pretty great and annoying, but I'd definitely fall into the former group, and I feel like it's worth a try.  Plus,…

I've finally finished reading the fourth book of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" last month.  Which gave me the opportunity to start China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station".  I'm only maybe ~130 pages (out of ~700) in thus far, but it seems pretty promising.  I'll be home for spring break next week, so when I'm not…

"Wishbone," that was another quintessential part of my childhood; although I was always more into the books than the TV show.

Oh cool, well that makes a lot more sense, then.  Yeah, I feel like specific annual events designed to fulfill specific requirements is a pretty common thing in Boy Scouts.

anti-alas?

At least one camp-out a year seems pretty low for a Boy Scout troop.

I think my parents were just relieved that neither I nor either of my little brothers ever got into "Teletubbies" back in the day; I was a bit too old for it (it was pretty much mindless crap for one and two year olds) when it came out, and thought it was phenomenally stupid, but there were still some kids in my first…

Is this from an actual episode?  Because, yeah, Arthur can be a bit on-the-nose about things.  But you are also aiming at an audience who probably doesn't tend to quite get subtlety yet.

"Arthur", that was pretty much my favorite show when I was five, after "The Magic School Bus".  I'm pretty sure they're still making new episodes even today.  I watched one a couple of years ago when I was bored and feeling nostalgic.  I feel like it would make a comparatively enjoyable program to be stuck watching if…

I thought it was the theme song to the Arthur cartoon too, and I was like "Wow, back off there, that was a pretty fun song when I was five."

Seriously, these Unicorn Apocalypse commercials are pretty much an inadvisable amalgamtion of just about as many popular things that one can jam into a single commercial.  I imagine their advertisers brainstorming sessions must have gone something like:  "Hmm, uh, let's see, we'll make the phone users smug hipsters,…