I love The Basic Eight a lot, but the twist doesn't really work. I reread it with the twist in mind, trying to see how it would fit in, and… yeah. Doesn't scan. Still, it's a pretty awesome book. As is ASOUE and Why We Broke Up (has anyone here read that one?).

THANK YOU. Gracie Bell is absolutely adorable.

In my house, Drake is referred to as "Wheelchair Jimmy." If you get that, I love you.

Fuck this movie. Fuck it right in the eye. Damn, I'm really upset about this. I love The Lorax. This feels wrong.

Also, that band sounded fucking nothing like The Decemberists.

I didn't mind it because I never got the impression that this was supposed to be the actual stream-of-consciousness thoughts of the characters, but more of an omniscient narrator interpreting their thoughts. Like how the first-person chapter ended with Cubby Candy saying that he would never actually be able to express…

I liked this episode.

I liked The White Ribbon but Jesus God, by the time I was done with Uncle Boonmee I was so logy and bored. Just bleh.

…Or we just have a different opinion than you. Oh. My. God. How can this be?

Hey, me too. *strikes sexy pose*

Anyone read Lost Girls?

Yeah, around book 25 they got into ghostwriter territory. But whatever. By the end everybody who is not dead is cripplingly traumatized. Just the thing for the kidz to read about!

Oh God, SVH is crazy bad. I seem to remember a book where Elizabeth cures a girl in a wheelchair by pushing a little kid into the pool. The paralyzed girl jumped out of her chair and saved him. Because it's all about mind over matter.

Thanks for saying that, pheeze. You're completely right. Look, not to be the feminazi ruining everybody's fun, but this is just an awful, and, yeah, offensive, idea for a comedy. "Sexual assault is hilarious, 'cause she really loved it!" Gross.

Plus, it was just funny. I thought so anyway.

little, psychopath, eh?
I'm picturing this Kid as The Kid from The Stand. You don't tell me, I'll tell you.

You put into words how I felt about it. Honestly, the only real thing this book has going for it is the pictures, which are legitimately neat and creepy and cool, but after a while the fact that it's a gimmick starts to weigh really heavily down on the story that's too slight to handle it. It's not terrible, but it's…

I was so fucked up after reading Born of Man and Woman. Just really, really scary.

ugh
I like dystopias, and even vampire novels, when done well, but Jesus, so many of these YA scifi/fantasies are such shitty copies of already bland books that I'm losing faith.

They should make a movie of The Long Walk. Frank Darabont bought the rights, I think, and if done right, with some actors good enough to carry a story that's mostly dialogue, it could be really good.