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Hey, I liked the Casual Vacancy. A lot. I didn't read it obsessively like I did with the Harry Potter books, but it was a hell of a lot better than most contemporary adult fiction.

Person of Interest.

Would be interesting if they did it as an anthology series, each season focusing on a couple of the original characters, while introducing new characters. Read more

I've loathed this from the beginning. How can you call something Vampire Academy and it not be about a night school class in the 1940's to teach people to be Bela Lugosi impersonators, where all the students turn out to be actual vampires trying to cash in on Dracula.

Use freely to support personal bias

See also: "Wrote first, then found supporting references."

My psych study: beautiful statistical manipulations

Looks almost as bleak and depressing as parts of London in the 80's.

How about WW2 involving Nazi supermen and demon-summoning English warlocks?

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell gives us the Napoleonic War plus fairies, and the result is pretty great.

Wot, no The Years of Rice and Salt?

No, I feel the same way. I'm not sure when the default means of information delivery on the web started sliding towards "make a video of something that people could just as well read for themselves. probably faster and without having to mute or pause other information streams," but I'm really unhappy about it. Read more

I have a problem watching things that I can just as well read.

You are talking like these new buildings are for people to live in.

Agreed. Community is what I watch when I need a pick-me-up; Big Bang is what I watch when I need a reality check. I'm so sick of these two fandoms being mutually exclusive.

Okay, I'll be the one who actually likes this. It's becoming a distinctly London style that will feel iconic by the time it's all done, and I'm a fan of the new modern architecture going up around the globe.

Hipster geeks? Read more

Galaxy Quest (1999): The heroes would have been killed without the geeks' help...

Because Geeks are forbidden from being made fun of?

Seriously. I am all four of those men, and my wife is all four of those women. Geeks judge other geeks all the time; getting it right isn't about pretending all Geeks are happy and harmonious, because they are not. And if anyone bothers watching seasons 4-7, they'd know that the show has given us more than a little…