I'll fight anyone who says Vincent Rodriguez III isn't attractive.

I got a good laugh out of this.

The last two years have been branded Circus XTREME. We went last year and it was so loud I had to take my kids out at multiple points, plus there was way less cool stuff then when I went 5 or 6 years ago. This was a long time coming, and this is coming from someone who really likes circuses in spite of all their…

I've always loved the animals, but when I went last year, I still enjoyed the elephants but the big cats were very depressing. Also, the entire circus is, like, strobe lights, dance numbers, and ear-burstingly-loud music. Circuses aren't supposed to be X-TREME, man.

PKD does weirdness much more organically and meaningfully than Murakami, imo.

I read Wind-Up Bird and enjoyed it, but it felt like I never really needed to read anything else he wrote. I suppose I'll try something else one day.

Circumcision fell out of vogue.

They mentioned something about the series ending with the gang dying on this site a long time ago (s3 or so?). But who knows, now.

Dead.

Where's the Dawes, the cock, the Girls, Rabin? Those were the good old days.

Very interested to hear your thoughts once you finish. I liked Catcher and it motivated me to read the rest of Salinger's (very small) ouevre, which helped me appreciate it even more—almost all his stuff is connected in someway.

I feel like this is not the sort of content I'm looking for from AVC.

Are you the same guy who was talking about Catcher in another thread? That's a great book but it seems like a lot of people can't look past the Holden-idolizing a certain subset does.

I love Marvel and I loved that book, but I can't disagree with any of this. It's amazing anything decent comes out of the big 2.

Gilmormons.

He wants shoes, bro.

Does this really happen?

The former.

Tritto.

For me, it's usually a sign of impatience to start the new book, but there probably have been times when it's signaled some latent disinterest in what I'm currently reading. Bears further consideration…