I think my first King book was IT and I'm pretty happy about that. It shows King at his best (most of the book) and worst (the part where the kids- nevermind, I don't want to talk about it).

Fair warning: if you're already tired of Detta/Odetta then just skip Song of Susannah. There's nothing there that you'll enjoy.

Richard III, for this line alone:
"And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days."

Order of the Phoenix is one of my favorites if only for the part where Mrs. Weasly starts trying to get rid of the boggart and it just morphs into the dead bodies of her family, one after the other. That's when I knew Rowling wasn't messing around about how dark the series was going to get.

The Terror was also the first thing I read by Simmons. I have Carrion Comfort and Black Hills but I haven't dug into them yet. I'm a little concerned/almost convinced nothing else he wrote will match up to how much I enjoyed The Terror.

I liked Kavalier and Clay better but I think Yiddish was a little bit better constructed as a story. Kavalier and Clay's third act treatment of Clay kind of bothered me. there was really nothing for him at the end of that book but the possibility of starting over. Which is fine, except he *SPOILER* just lost his…

Wizard and Glass was probably my favorite Gunslinger book. Although, Drawing of the Three is also an excellent read.

"I was wearing make-up. I had lightning bolts on my wanger."

I don't look at it as default friends. I look at them as friends for their own worse outcome. The show reminds the audience constantly that whenever either of them goes out on their own that they do better than they do in the band. But, both Brett and Jermaine always come back to each other out of friendship.

"I'm not a fan of the band. I like good bands like the Rolling Stones or The Beatles."

The 30 Rock season 2 DVD has a table read for "Cooter" and it has probably my second favorite 30 Rock line of all time (even though it never made the show): "I wish he had seen me eating a flag. Cooter Flag is a winner's name."

Cool story, sis: I had this song stuck in my head during a class and I accidentally started singing this part aloud. It was a women's studies class. I had a difficult time explaining this moment to my '60s feminist instructor. Apparently, our standards of feminism were different.

I'm about a quarter of the way through Tony Horwitz's "Confederates in the Attic." I picked it up after hearing him speak about John Brown (His "Midnight Rising" is one of the best written histories of John Brown I've read) a few months ago. "Confederates in the Attic" is about his travels through Civil War…

I actually have this problem with Aladdin. In my mind Genie is terrible at his job because when Aladdin wished to be a prince, Genie only made him appear to be a prince. There's nothing to say that Genie couldn't have actually made him a prince, he was just lazy.

The Bride Wars sequel wishes it thought of something as good as Due Hard. Poor Bryan Greenberg, being involved with that mess.

That had to be tough. I really don't like people interrupting movie/book browsing. Especially something like a book sale where the titles
aren't in any sort of order. I'm in the zone. I need to focus, damnit!

The "important detail" thing always burns me. I sometimes skim through description in books ("I get it, the guy was having lunch. move forward.") so when it comes to the finale and the One Important Detail reappears I have to go back and figure out why I should have known about it the entire time.

I haven't read 20th Century Ghosts. I'm pretty bad about reading short story collections. But I've heard it's good from quite a few people so it is on my list.

General question: is Horns worth reading?

yeah, I'm not from the Bay Area.