Most reviews I've read have certainly made the plot sound rather interesting but also noted enough Franzen quirks that I'll not rush to read this one because I'll just get annoyed at it.

There is no Entourage Two!

More like 'Turd Crapley'

From what I've read (which isn't much as I'm not super interested) the show is set after the film, dealing with the fallout of the pre-crimes being shut down. Which sounds vaguely interesting, although I'll guess that it's going to probably be more or less a standard procedural.

"This is not Mel Tormé!"

Honestly, I doubt the novel has anything to do with it. Eggers is a big name in literary circles for his other work - he founded McSweeny's for one. His novels are rarely anything particularly special, especially his recent attempts at social commentary in which he decided to strip out the metafictional playfulness…

It annoyed me mostly because he actually was on the right side of most issues, but he'd alienate everyone who would potentially have agreed with him by taking every viewpoint to an absurd extreme and then tone-policing the whole discussion instead of engaging with points.

Wait wasn't that Sam Worthington?

Graham Linehan has had this problem with people constantly assuming that The IT Crowd uses canned laughter when it is actually filmed in front of a live audience…

First you get the band, then you get the fame, then you get the dildos.

'I'm Going Insane (Finish Him)' - Titus Andronicus
'Baby Please Don't Go' - Muddy Waters
'Further On (Up The Road)' - Bruce Springsteen
'Weather Reports' - Bright Eyes
'Homeless Blues' - Bessie Smith
'If You See Light' - The Mountain Goats
'Oh Comely' - Neutral Milk Hotel
'White Winter Hymnal' - Fleet Foxes
'Philosopher' -…

I keep thinking people are talking about the critic James Woods, which confused me because while I don't agree with most of his reviews and think his obsession with realism and how literature 'should' be is grating and his review of The Bone Clocks was bollocks, I didn't think that he deserved quite this much anger.

Is that the Spanish zombie one? I will check it out, I have been meaning to for a while, it looks good.

For me, Troll Hunter was the film that proved that 'found footage' could be really good if handled well so I would like to see what he's doing next.

I have heard someone else mention that it was part funded by the Norwegian tourist board and you really can tell…

We had this kind of problem in the UK - the UKIP leader would be invited onto shows, verbally school, but could then claim to be a victim in the press. At first it was fun to see him getting shat on, but after a while you started hoping they wouldn't so that he wouldn't get sympathy…

In the UK you barely hear anything about the election until a few weeks before, then suddenly all the newspapers are going for blood and you'd think there's a nascent civil war… and then the election happens, everyone grumbles and it's business as usual for five years.

EDIT: Wrong place…

Y'know if I saw that in a novel I'd scoff at the author being so heavy-handed…

I should have prefaced any comments by saying that in English, and the church here is way more liberal than the US…