So do you essentially just base your commentary on this site around presenting hostilely contrarian views about highly-regarded authors? Weren't you the troll telling everyone what a shitty author Faulkner was in the As I Lay Dying review comments?

That was Suttree.

I liked the ending. It felt perhaps just a little contrived, but on the whole I felt like it was a reasonably understated end, that lent Doree a fairly believable ending. And I liked the fact that it was kind of an ambiguous ending. Doree's saving the kid's life doesn't suddenly "fix" everything in her life, and I…

There was this huge (like with head and thorax >1" long) writing spider outside of a window in the stairwell of my dorm back in September for a couple of weeks, but I haven't seen her in quite some time now. I'm really hoping she just moved and set up a web somewhere else, and didn't get eaten by something, because…

No, it's definitely being advertised to stoners. Pot is not legal in my state, and yet, the annoying Spotify commercial I keep hearing for this is probably even more thinly veiled than the commercial you're referencing in its appealing directly to people who are completely baked.

The Preds are also my favorite Western Conference team, and it's dismaying just how mediocre they've been since Suter left. At least Seth Jones looks like he's going to be pretty amazing.

I actually like them a lot better than the old jerseys. They don't have that "Look! Our jerseys were designed with all the gaudy, overcrowded trappings of hockey jerseys from the 1990s!" look, at least, so that's a huge plus. I've never been a huge fan of the Canes jerseys (I think a lot of relatively new-ish teams…

The first story has possibly been my favorite thus far. Something about Lloyd's absolute certainty in his convictions while in the mental hospital-prison was legitimately frightening to me.

Yeah, I felt like this was a good time of year to read House of Leaves, and I think I'll have timed it such that I'll be right in the middle of it by Halloween, so I'll have something tonally appropriate to read.

I thought it was incredible. For an author who is normally so incredibly bleak, McCarthy is really funny at times in Suttree. And his prose at times was absolutely awe-inspiring at times. Suttree cemented McCarthy's status as one of my favorite living authors. I really loved it.

Look at the standings in the Metro division. Canes are 2nd with just seven points in seven games. If you had to pick a division to have a slow start in, the Metro's not a bad choice.

Yay for cats!

Congrats!

To be fair, your likes have been available for viewing since that feature was installed. But yeah, NuDisqus is kinda awful.

Out of curiosity, what does "This comment is awaiting moderation" signify under NuDisqus? Because there is nothing remotely offensive about the shuffle you're responding to. (Edit: And I couldn't respond to PugsMalone's actual comment, either).

Whenever I have an e-book that's about to be due back, I leave my e-reader in sleep mode and don't open anything else but that book, and I've been able to keep books well past their due-date, if you aren't averse to some technical rule breaking. Although when I did this with Infinite Jest a couple of months back, it…

How well should one be acquainted with the works of the titular individuals before attempting that book?

Since the last installment of this feature, I've read Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, the second volume of Saga, and Richard II. At the moment I'm in the middle of Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness, which I'm finding really good, but not mind-blowingly so. And in my tortuously slow slog through Wheel of Time, I'm reading T…

Iron Maiden -The Legacy
Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned
Rush - Where's My Thing?, Pt. 4: Gangster of Boats Trilogy
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends
The Who - Christmas

Canes went 1-1-2 this week. Lost two shootouts in typical pathetic-Canes-losing-shootouts fashion. We almost beat the Hawks last night though, and despite having only two wins, we're somehow second in the awful Metro division.