this brought me to tears

Spoken like a dedicated Cat Fancier.

That scene is one of those moments that sears itself into your personal timeline.

Can I have my Johnnie back?

Every damn time.

Based on Nux's 'I'm gonna die historic on the Fury Road!' line, I thought of it as a symbolic thing. The road leading to Valhalla, the path of the righteous, etc.

Mario Teaches Typing. The best!

Roger that.

When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong…

I'll put 'em on the list. Thanks!

Yeah, I read it as part of a YA Literature class. Then again, that reading list also included the entirety of His Dark Materials, so I could be forgiven for holding it to a higher standard.

I am about 70% of the way through PSS right now, and quite enjoying it. I was…strongly encouraged to read it by a friend who took exception to my dismissal of Mieville based on a college reading of Un Lun Dun.

Ah, yeah. Fair. I had similar complaints, initially. I think the book does a good job undermining Kvothe's narrative as it goes, though. It never loses the feeling of a fantastical bildungsroman, but each time you revisit the framing story, the tapestry he paints for himself becomes increasingly frayed.

(I've also been reading Neal Stephenson, Stephen King, China Mieville and GRRM, so clearly the length of a novel doesn't play into my preferences.)

That's certainly a fair point, and I can't blame you. I pushed my way through the first Mistborn book but couldn't muster the energy to get more than a few chapters into the second. I guess I never found Rothfuss's writing to be less than pleasant, while Sanderson's prose feels gawky and unrefined.

It took me a little whlie to get into The Name of the Wind, but by the end I was totally on board. It develops an unreliable-narrator framework as it goes that belies the Perfect Protagonist vibes it has early on.

oh my god

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, anyone?

Chicken isn't vegan?

Star Wars: The Force Covered in Cheeto Dust