Have you ever seen a gimp on stilts? It's magnificent.

I think he was praising Chewbacca's asshole?

How is there not a rapper named G-Male?

McCarthy is heavyhanded with everything except the punctuation

I only read The Man Who Was Thursday because parts of it were scattered around the original Deus Ex as metafictional commentary on the game's plot, and the two are forever connected in my mind.

I'm not sure how I'd explain Adult World (II), but it made sense the last time I read it and I found it uproariously funny. I agree with you regarding Octet - there seem to be two opinions out there: the one you expressed and "this is a bunch of pretentious bullshit." I have a hard time reading it without having his…

Norwegian Wood's ideal reading mindset involves a wretched breakup, unrequited love, or intense loneliness. Hard to imagine it would land otherwise - the literary equivalent of a Rites of Spring album or something.

A Wild Sheep Chase, although 1Q84 is a close second. After Dark is a nice late-night-in-a-laundromat read but that's to be expected.

I read it the other day and found it really funny, which is kind of like answering chicken-or-egg with ham sandwich.

Still holding out hope that they do a remake of Combat Shock next.
I blame TF2.

I'd love to hear what you think of it when you finish it. Always a tie between that and Good Ol' Neon for my favorite of his short stories.

Have you gotten to Octet yet?

Pattern Recognition and Virtual Light are both really good.

a lot of Murakami, a lot of Vonnegut, and a lot of comic books.
goes well with unemployment and depression.

The vacuum behind her dead eyes threatened to depressurize the cabin.

Whenever the Presidency is in doubt, I just assume Alexander Haig is in charge.

Everything rots under the desert sun.

if the saxophone also swings, count me in

Then let me be the first to recommend Grave of the Fireflies!

Y'know what they say - time flies, but aeroplanes crash.