The original title of this list
was "Best Books I Saw on the Display Table at Barnes&Noble." Very disappointing list. JK Rowling over Phillip Pullman? And that's just for starters…

The original title of "Middlesex"
was "Middlefuck"

Stray observations
1. I actually had a pair of Observer-like specs when I was a kid—they were sold as sports or opera glasses, but to me they were spy gear fer sure.

I really hate those long-haired paranoid Dharma assholes (Radzinsky, Horace). They have definitely been smoking the wrong kind of weed.

Looked to me like the symbol of the chalice, an ancient (as in paleolithic) symbol for the female. Did Adama just invent that?

How about the Whitest Kids in the Hall U Know?