It's also important to note that number-of-bedrooms does not automatically equate to more-expensive-house.  An older four-bedroom place that needs work done to it and is located in a so-so neighborhood is going to be a lot less expensive than a two-bedroom that's been recently renovated and is located in a nicer area.

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It just went on and on, and those illustrations, yeesh!

George Saunders was able to do in twenty-five pages what Don DeLillo utterly failed to do in over three hundred.

Agreed about the product placement being really clumsy and painful to watch.

Agreed about the product placement being really clumsy and painful to watch.

Another vote for Locke & Key.  It's easily the best written comic series I've read in the last several years and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful.

Another vote for Locke & Key.  It's easily the best written comic series I've read in the last several years and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful.

@avclub-5125ad2b58405bb877649bbea104f866:disqus  Yeah, Ellison always goes a bit over the top, as is his wont.

@avclub-5125ad2b58405bb877649bbea104f866:disqus  Yeah, Ellison always goes a bit over the top, as is his wont.

Whenever I see anything with a terrible name like Cybergeddon, part of me always hopes that it ends up being brilliant so that people will keep having to use the cringe-inducing title whenever they want to praise it.

Whenever I see anything with a terrible name like Cybergeddon, part of me always hopes that it ends up being brilliant so that people will keep having to use the cringe-inducing title whenever they want to praise it.

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I still love Tanya Donelly.  From Muses to Breeders to Belly to her solo stuff she's always had an original, unique style and a great sound.

I still love Tanya Donelly.  From Muses to Breeders to Belly to her solo stuff she's always had an original, unique style and a great sound.

In my world I like to pretend that nothing exists after Whitechocolatespaceegg.  As far as I'm concerned Ms. Phair has been selling charming, hand-knitted sweaters from a road-side stand since 1998.

In my world I like to pretend that nothing exists after Whitechocolatespaceegg.  As far as I'm concerned Ms. Phair has been selling charming, hand-knitted sweaters from a road-side stand since 1998.

I don't know if it completely qualifies, but I thought Tom Perrotta's Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies did a good job of interweaving stories from a particular time and place that had lots of crossover elements while still having the stories stand on their own.

I don't know if it completely qualifies, but I thought Tom Perrotta's Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies did a good job of interweaving stories from a particular time and place that had lots of crossover elements while still having the stories stand on their own.