It's been a while since I read them but I thought the Merlin stories were pretty good. Not as good as Corwin but still worth reading.

In the spirit of the season I've got Something Wicked This Way Comes and David Mitchell's new ghost story.

I haven't see the movie in a few years but that is so not how I remember it. I remember him playing the character as way too assertive, way too confident. He was basically a Tom Cruise action hero who couldn't get it up because the plot said so.

Counterpoint: whoever they got to play Nite Owl. Just terrible.

Just finished up the Corrections and American Pastoral, both of which were great (though American Pastoral decidedly less so). Now it's the Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Also great.

What is the name of that Borges story?

Granite Falls not Great Falls. Too much meth to be great.

Charlie has kidnapped a local critic, attacked the Waitress' s "fiance" with a hornets nest, and paid a carnie to stab the Waitress. He's dangerous alright.

Do you have some citations for soldiers having PTSD who were no where near combat? I'm not trying to be aggressive or accusatory, I'm actually curious. As someone who deployed to Iraq in an infantry unit and saw no combat (and therefore the majority of my friends have gone through the same thing), I find it borderline…

I have the Buried Giant coming up as well, so excited.

I may be over-thinking a two-sentence comment on a pop culture website by someone I've never met, but I THINK that kajigger desu was making a joke.

I might be the only person here to think this, but I found the Bone Clocks to be (by a pretty wide margin) Mitchell's worst book thus far. It's still decent, but very disappointing. If it continued to leave you feeling underwhelmed, I would recommend not letting it discourage you from trying a different Mitchell book.

Sounds fair to me.

No, Jason Rains is right. You are an asshole.

I don't want to bad-mouth this book, which I'm sure is very good. I just love any opportunity to talk about DFW.

So… this is not the commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace?

I love, love, LOVE "Sex and Candy."

"What makes it difficult not to be a hypocrite is that it's much easier to dismiss an artist for being a shitty person if you already don't like their art."

First visit to the comic shop in a few weeks so I was playing catch-up and it was almost exclusively Image comics. I made it a point to quit buying DC comics about a year into the New 52, but I didn't even realize how I'd basically cut out all Marvel as well.

Good news about the new Mitchell. I've never heard of Sarah Waters but if we're talking about her in the same conversation as David Mitchell I'll have to check it out.