We read aloud all the way through my Master's in writing, too, and pretty much every class session of the college-freshman Comp II courses I teach involves some reading aloud, but NOT the teacher reading an entire novel to the class, which is where this discussion started.

I read short stories and poetry to my college freshmen for just that reason, but I was surprised that fifth-grade teachers read full books to their class. (WITH is one thing, but TO the class seemed weird.)

I honestly don't know. I remember the cover and the title, but I think it was my sister's or at the school library—either way, I don't think I read it, I just aware of it. (Like some Judy Blume stuff. I never read Forever, but boy did I hear alllll about it!)

I'm one of the rare people who loves hours, all of it. But I agree, a full Omikron album would have been interesting. I think my fondness for the game helped me enjoy the album. It's almost like the other songs could fit some of the characters you jump into in the game.

Some, if not all, of those songs were written for the game first and then put on the album. At least "New Angels of Promise."

@LoveWaffle: I've been asking around (here and in real life), and everyone is saying fourth or fifth grade is normal. Sorry about my snippy question/comment. I guess my memory is faulty in this area. Peace!

Is the book you're trying to remember called The Girl Who Owned a City? http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I could be the one misremembering things here. I've always been an avid and advanced reader, like my siblings and parents, so I might have simply forgotten about teachers reading to us because I focused more on what I got to read on my own.

Really? I had teachers read parts of books to us, sure, but after the second or third grade, none of them read full novels to us. Maybe fourth grade, but by then we were reading encyclopedia entries and writing essays about research topics like the California condor (my 4th grade topic), and I read The Lord of the…

Your teacher read books to you in FIFTH grade? Are you sure you don't mean first or second? Fifth grade seems awfully late/grown-up to have teachers reading entire novels to your class.

She might have been considering the production run, not the ship's fictional mission or its episode run. For instance, the show was on the air from 1966 through 1969, so although it only had three seasons, TOS was being made and broadcast during four consecutive years. Or, counting from the production of the second…

But he just can't WAIT to see what the AV Club writers have to say about the third trailer! His life is on hold until they post something about it!

Rainbows are made of calorie-free chocolate. See? We all can say things that are not true.

Nerding out is great, we all do it. Complaining that they haven't posted something about a frickin' trailer, which is easily found all over the Internet already, is ridiculous.

OMG, they haven't posted about the Avengers trailer! The world is ending! Dear gods, no! Why, oh why won't they post about that?! The pain…the pain! Oh, the humanity!

Yes, because if there's one thing that defines a community, it's that things never, ever change and everybody stays exactly the same forever and ever.

I don't know if it's just you, but I definitely do not agree. That doesn't seem like a Troy line to me at all.

Did all of those guest stars beg/plead/try to get on the show? This isn't just a list of shows with guest stars in general.

So, you try to attack me by offering up more example of bad-science movies. Wow, you really are a sharp one, aren't ya? Yes, genius, all that stuff is fake, the Terminator series is FILLED with nonsense, and whoopty freaking doo, so what?

Actually, a lot of us dislike this chip-into-brain crap just as much as we hate the 10%-of-brain crap. Don't mistake one review as meaning that "People are cool" with it. It just means this reviewer is cool with it. Not me, and probably not most AV Clubbers, and definitely not most critics and audiences.