You were more vehement than I would have been, but I agree.  It is a weird and striking picture, and frankly I like looking at pictures of celebrity offspring for the same reason that I like looking at my baby cousins--it’s fun to try and trace resemblances to faces you know well.

Even the reviews of Disenchanted?

Not sure about the sipping mint juleps, I think that was mostly the men.  Otherwise, yeah.

Give the sickly little boy a magic ring, maybe.

There was a whole 30 Rock episode about this.  They wanted a redneck-whisperer and it backfired.

That kind of cogent analysis is why I come to the comments section.

Is Theo the inverse of Pip because Pip parties but doesn’t get laid?  This is a tangled web, my friend.

I’m not sure if this is an example of loving to death through overexposure, but I cannot revisit Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.  I loved it when I was a tween, but the jokes all fall flat for me now.  It feels age-specific.

I’m up to mid-Return of the King reading to my son, and it’s funny, I’m still enjoying LOTR but he liked the Hobbit better for some of the same reasons.  Also, he pointed out something that had never occurred to me--that the Hobbit has far more moral nuance than LOTR.  Someone like Thorin is actually complicated,…

My mother read LOTR to me when I was a kid and the scouring of the Shire really resonated. It was devastating because the Shire felt safe, but satisfying because, unlike in real life, our returning heroes could more or less put things right.

I have to agree with you about what they did to Lane. That was about 400% more infuriating than April’s advent.

I like Pippa’s arms.

Yikes.  Calm down.

I wasn’t joking: father’s temporarily out of the picture. Mother and son in NYC, very close, cataclysmic event separates them. Son yearns for lost mother while gaining specialized skills. The Goldfinch tracks The Lightning Thief at least as closely as it does Great Expectations.  The 5th ave matron as Mrs. Havisham is…

I actually saw a lot of parallels with the first Percy Jackson book.

Oh my God I love the phrase plot-pig. I am definitely one of those.

This was helpful to me in understanding why people liked the book so much. I’m probably at fault for skimming all those parts about restoring antiques etc., but it left me cold. Also Boris reminded me so much of the also-heavily-accented sidekick in Everything Is Illuminated. I felt like encountering that character…

I come back to that one a lot.

I was pretty viciously bullied and King’s way of demonizing bullies without de-humanizing them really resonated.

Do you really have to ask????? Hansel!  He’s so hot right now.  Hansel!