Being decent at COD and then playing with my teenage nephew and getting annhialated drove all of those points home. A 1 to 1 ktd ratio is only "mediocre" or worse to people that play fps' for hours every day-or at least hours every week.

Amelia Earhart came to mind immediately.

You mean he looks like he drives a van?

Can people apply to you for an exemption?

Chuck Palhanuik is also un-troll like.

In addition to the three you named, and the one I named. Off the top of my head.

I hate money so that would be my personal nightmare.

When the driving force is simple nostalgia how can it be anything but fast-food lit? As fast food lit it was actually decent.

As a one time thing, light reading page turner, I wouldn't be put off, especially if you don't mind the references. To me it read a lot like Snow Crash with 100 times the references. Not great but not awful.

Even Gillian Flynn is pretty easy on the eyes.

I look forward to the benevolence and magniminity that China will show in their interactions with Africa.

Boo, he's at best passable, at worst a charisma vaccum.

I didn't like him in it but he wasn't as awful as I had expected. The rest of the movie was pretty good-the second best in that "franchise."

Saul Bellow-but I get that wasn't what you were going for.