"A company named Sweet's out of Salt Lake City"…
Anyone else catch the irony there?

Shiner is indeed good. And the Coors family were (are) a bunch of right wing nutcases. And I once worked for Coors, the management is psychopathic. And they have the lamest, stupidest ads of all the major beer companies.

"Overwhelming! Electrifying! Baffling!"

Bernard Herrmann did a lot of classic Hitchcock and Ray Harryhausen stuff. You can get a lot of his work on eMusic. I downloaded the entire soundtrack to "Mysterious Island." My kids love it.

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It's not fiction, but how about some Bill Bryson? "A Brief History of Everything" I re-read about every 2 years, and "In a Sunburned Country" and "A Walk in the Woods" are some of the funniest stuff I've ever read. "Walk in the Woods" especially reads almost like fiction.

AJR, you won't go wrong with either book. I can even see how they would complement each other. "Banner of Heaven" is a real eye-opener about the early history of the Mormons & Joseph Smith. Man, that guy was a piece of work.

The thing that sold me on Blood Meridian was that I opened up to a random page when I worked in a bookstore. It was the passage where the horse had been bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake, and the Judge had the Indian boy sitting on his knee, bouncing him and making him laugh, and then…. I won't spoil it, just say…

I liked House of Leaves. If you read it, be prepared to turn your book upside down and sideways and flip pages back and forth repeatedly to read all the foot notes, foot-foot notes, foot-foot-foot notes, foot-f00t-f00t-foot notes, etc. But it was kind of fun and creepy. I'm a dedicated reader and read every word. …

Roddy Doyle is also quotation mark-aphobic.

I tore through Blood Meridian in 2 days…I agree the language might be a bit dense at times (as others said above), but I found it mesmerizing and could not put it down. So, while I would never say it's an "easy" read, it definitely is a compelling read. And while I can't say that I have a #1 song or #1 movie of all…

I think this displaces Terri Garr, Margot Kidder, and The Hammer as Best Random Roles yet.

So you were scared of any movie with the word "Black" in the title? I think you may have had fear of a black planet.

I considered selling the kids for medical experiments, but then I realized, 'Hey, the little bastards have kind of grown on me.'

That $41.75 is the reason the Owls family doesn't go to the movies very often. Add another $20-$30 for popcorn, drinks, etc and you're looking at some real cash for a family of five. And that's if you don't go out to eat before or after, which usually happens since we live about 25 miles from the theatre. We are…

It had some god-like powers (maybe because of being able to travel about in time at will) but it was definitely metallic and robot-like. It worked for the artificial intelligence that controlled all the portals and impaled untold numbers of people on the giant metal thorn tree.

Cybermen & Daleks are the opposite of Terminator: Cybermen/Daleks = crunchy on the outside, soft chewy center, while Teminator = soft, chewy casing, crunchy center.

Maybe when we get a Matrix "reboot" or "re-imagining" in a few years they can fix all these problems.

Robot House were just responsible for a bunch of hijinx. Everyone knows the Robot Mafia are the true evil robots 1000 years from now.

I thought we all decided WALL-E looked like the "Short Circuit" robot.

Gort
Also Gort from original "The Day the Earth Stood Still." He doesn't actually kill anyone, but he is an enforcer with the capability of destroying the entire planet.