It's an interesting question with a few factors at play.

Now if only someone would park an Arrested Development billboard of Barry Zuckerkorn: He's Very Good right next to it.

A Pain with or without Some Yearning

This reminds me of the time my friend thought she was downloading The Girl on the Train before a vacation, and ended up downloading the decidedly more vague A Girl on a Train

I guess the argument there would be whether or not it's better (I haven't seen any other version than his).

*Spike Lee angrily tweets Blacula's address*

A little self-serving there, eh?

Listen, who's fan fiction are we talking about here?

Hey, he showed JFK his ass!

This opinion is wrong.

In the sense that he had a connection to Gary Oldman, or that Oldman's people would've required that a movie actor have a more recognizable name behind the camera for their TV stint?

It's tough. I like RDJ in Wonder Boys, but he is basically the embodiment of the type of manic, one-liner character in a novel, whereas the rest of the movie did a good job of shifting to a reality a little bit more recognizable than one found in a book.

Basinger won for Best Supporting Actress, not Best Actress, that year, if I'm not mistaken.

It's the airplane test. If the flight attendant asks in a panic if there's a doctor on board, you better believe the Medieval Studies PhD isn't actually going to raise their hand.

It's hard to argue for all of it, in my opinion. If I were to re-read I would skip almost all of the Johnny Truant stuff. There are some really great sections when they're investigating and exploring the house, and like I said above, there is a portion of the Truant stuff that deals with his mother which, if you're…

I don't want to let my impression of it influence yours, necessarily, I just felt a strong separation between the Navidson segments and the Truant/Zampano ones.

Such an uplifting melody; such despairing lyrics.

House of Leaves has some of my favorite horror/thriller passages ever.

Universal Baseball Association is a crazy read. It's so short but so…I don't know, potent? That book transported me more in 200 pages than a shelf of sprawling stuff 5 times the size.

The Expos also were running away with it. And I believe Griffey was making a genuine charge at 60 homers. That season, along with players serving in wars and Ichiro coming over earlier is one of the great "what if's" in modern baseball.