This is an interesting: it sounds like @avclub-e2f2ff3de77732967d7c107696063888:disqus and @avclub-4c37107b9dedb73b90f677930bf7728b:disqus disliked Blankets for entirely opposite reasons. I had a background much closer to the one a peep described (possibly more horrible, but no need to quibble), and I was grateful…

This Heisenberg hat looks more just like a little girl wearing a bald-cap. Still awesome, though…

Oh…my bad. Thanks for the link, though.

Do you have a link for easy perusal?

You know, I was sort of anti-him due to a skim through the first of his books, but I disagree. In these interviews, he's been a joy to read—very clever and interesting, bringing his A-game (though perhaps he would prefer that to be termed "his first-stand viola").

I sort of get what @avclub-41212a9d660d861b9d5bd9c37de55961:disqus is saying here. I've said a similar thing re what makes a writer "essential": if his/her reported flaws are indistinguishable from his/her reported strengths. I think this is very much the case with a lot of the writers who get called "classic":…

I don't know what's going on, but yes please!

Of course, you're right (inasmuch as plot isn't usually the most important thing), and I've probably overstated the badness of the book for the purposes of the Internet. However, can it really be said that McCarthy's characters are even nearly lifelike? Again, you could counterpunch with an argument of "They're not mea…

So then…do people here like The Road? Coz, I thought it was a pretty unimpressive post-apocalyptic novel.

::…yes, that is the benefit of knowing what words mean…::

Seeing as the hand on that album cover appears to have been decapitated—not recently—I'll go ahead and cast the dissenting vote that the huddled children are, in fact, signatories of the album's advertised affect.

I haven't read Blonde, either. Zombie, however, is about the scariest serial-killer novel I've ever read. JCO has her strengths.

There he goes again…

"This Monroe is pretentious, exhibitionistic, humorless, and spends much
of her time trapped in a clammy, violent relationship with a married
stud who seems to be her, and maybe Mailer’s, idea of the man of her
dime-novel dreams."

The Misfits is actually a pretty interesting film. In fact, I think it makes for a pretty good commentary on the character of Maralyn Monroe, too, inasmuch as she, like the use of horses for dog food, represents something interesting about the commodification of wildness. And stuff.

@avclub-b8645aab12b6ba5e561fccefbf46cc0c:disqus, yeah, I feel more or less the same way. I've only been a vegetarian for two years, but before then I was in Japan on a band tour (concert band, not cool band), and I stayed with this Buddhist guy who offered me horse sushi, apparently a delicacy from his area of the…

It's a good time, because (if I'm not mistaken) @avclub-b63f73301fe289a7c258eb2e3f4986ce:disqus is looking a hell of a lot more attractive today than he usually does…

Yes, Thompson does draw pretty nekkid women. He really does.

Um…I have no idea. I met and worked some with the lady; it's not like we were super-buds.

I was gonna try to make myself seem really creepy by linking to the Ron Rosenbaum article that details the story of the real New York twins that that movie's based on (why not?), but it doesn't seem to be on the Internet. IYI, it's in RR's collection of magazine pieces, The Secret Parts of Fortune, which is hereby…