Yes, especially big ones. So I'm told.

@avclub-d6729fe5b945e974dc2ad1153d804216:disqus —I'm not sure. A lot of the stuff about his time in Great Britain is done in sort of broad strokes; he focuses the narrative to tell the story of how his youthful anger at those who he perceived as better-educated or better-connected than him (the "Hugh Laurie crowd")…

3 Dumbly Drooling, in this thread alone!

Next time you win an Oscar, be sure to bring her in from Omaha.

I, on the other hand, have a Toyota that required me to get not one but (count 'em) two new catalytic converters, only to find out it was all just a broken O2 sensor. Pity poopy farts.

I would divorce Louis C.K., that's for sure. He's a funny dick, but a dick nonetheless. I find it very weird that he happens to be my wife's favourite man on earth.

My childhood was similarly awful—for different reasons, which I don't really need to get into here—and I'm with Tweedy on this. It's one thing to write a boo-hoo confessional about your past sins, but sucky parents writing jokes about their misbehaviours sounds like more of the same sociopathology that made them act…

^^ Screenplay # 2

Ferguson's book is really interesting until he gets famous, whereupon it feels sort of samey to other instantly-successful-loser stories. (Just because you became successful immediately upon coming to America doesn't mean that's generally the case, Craig. No, no—I'm not one of the bitter natives.) The chapters about…

Born Standing Up (blessedly) is more tightly edited than Ferguson's auto-bio, and is worth checking out. Whether or not you exit convinced that Wittgenstein was actually a pivotal influence on Martin's work, it's interesting to know that Martin thinks he was.

Good to know.

I'll assume this thread'll just get more specifically spoiler-y from here in…and (as I just started this book) it's officially collapsed. TBC.

Really? I read it and came away with the thought that that's some really juvenile and reprehensible shit, there. What with all the "you need to fuck everyone up to be worthwhile" and all. I wrote an angry Amazon review that never saw light because I cussed too much, I think.

True enough. I like both.

Ray Bradbury put a lot into that movie. He wrote a book (The Green Whale?) about his work adapting the novel, claiming that he immersed himself in the materials for months and then, in a feverish roar, typed the whole thing at one sitting, transfigured into a latter day Melville for the hours of his sit.

BEE's twitter feed claims next year, by Avery. But, realistically, probably not.

Hmm. I knew Jesus' Son was a movie, and I've read the book, but I haven't heard much positive about it. Possibly I should give that a shot.

Did you find it "disturbing"? My complaint there was "boring," but to each his own.

When I saw the inclusion of Everything You Want to Know About Sex… on this list, the first thing that lept to mind was Gore Vidal's adorably bitchy essay reviewing the original book: Doc Reuben (the whole thing is behind the NYRB paywall, so that's the best I could do). Leave it to Gore to sneer down at the mortals…

"Unadaptable" in the sense that the book's main thrust wasn't translatable to the screen. In that sense I don't think the film worked. What the film was able to capture, admirably, was the life of surfaces that Bateman lives. It was also able to demonstrate the way that, even though there's plenty to discourage one…