Hint: the CONSTANT bursts of RANDOM ALL-CAPS aren't making you LOOK any SANER.

our commander-in-chief

as well as the realization that her parents are Jar Jar Binks and popular Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic assassin droid HK-47. (Actually, we made up that last bit, but you never know.)

Indeed. The politics don't really get in the way at first, but at a certain point, you just feel dirty reading it. The breaking point for me was when [character] dies, but NOT BEFORE giving this horrific MRA speech about what a horrible person the woman who had rejected him was. And he was supposed to be…

I don't agree. I thought the ending logically followed the action and was clearly being led up to. When I first learned that it was a revision, it seemed to me that the original must have been bizarrely, gratuitously grim, and I hold to that.

Watership Down: transcendently brilliant. Tales from Watership Down: we don't talk about it. I apologize for even mentioning its dread name; I see that I'm the first person in this thread who was tasteless enough to do it.

Personally, I'm GLAD the book has a happy ending, even if it was editorially mandated. It worked, it didn't feel at all unnatural or forced, and I would've wanted to kill myself if it hadn't been there.

Plague Dogs the book has an unambiguously happy ending.

So, how does it feel to be a mindless right-wing talking points machine?

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I can avoid TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF MUSIC AT ONCE?!? Sign me up!

I had never heard this song before reading this column. Now that I have, I have no opinion about it. Also, by this time tomorrow I'll have forgotten about it completely. That is all.

I like the MCU movies as much as anyone, but seriously, they are the furthest thing from "risky" imaginable.

And any movie set at ANY time could be said to have One Million Years BC as a prequel.

The problem is that he slavishly mimicked the *look* of the book while having absolutely no idea of what it was actually *about.*

Literary criticism is maybe possibly not the avclub's strong point.

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think an American can write a "great Russian novel," or any kind of Russian novel.

…somehow, I don't think you understand the subject at hand very well.

I dunno. "Current college kids are thin-skinned morons" is a bit too "old man yells at cloud" for my tastes.

You know how sometimes you think something's clever, but then it's not?