Speak for yourself. My dentist plays Cannibal Corpse.

People who live in lace-collared, puffy-sleeved glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

What a dumb idea.

I suspect that if you work from such a minimalist template, especially in terms of structure, thematic material, and instrumentation, you're going to end up with a lot of bland, shallow stuff.

Techno? What the hey? As far as I can tell they listen to metal.

I love Rush (it's right there in my name for god's sake), but if someone says you listen to nerd music and your response is "Actually, there are several logical flaws in that argument," you're just proving him right. And for all their virtues, they sure ain't get-crunk music.

English is a language where 'Worcestershire' is two syllables.

I hear if Bret Michaels breathes on you, you get herpes.

Psh. Last weekend I went out clubbin' in my Caress of Steel shirt and literally drowned in pussy.

Europe just seems to do a better job at preserving high culture and having the public at large care about it and take part in it. The obvious reason (as argued by self-loathing Americans) would be that Americans by nature are stupid and anti-intellectual and that's that. I'm hoping there's some other reason. What do…

Glad I didn't go to school there, then. The people who are talking about denser, more challenging high school curricula in this thread do all seem to be from blue states.

How do you even do that inside a coffin?

The 'Editorial We', a descendant of the Royal We, a favorite for people who want to sound important.

In the local B&N, King (and Koontz, for god's sake!) are in the Literature section, cheek to cheek with the Western Canon, which cracks me up.

The argument that people hate Twilight because they hate female authors and female characters is weird to me; the most passionate Twilight-haters I've ever met have been feminists who hate for the way it depicts love and relationships.

I'm gonna chime in here too, we read Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, The Jungle, The Crucible, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Sound and the Fury, Huck Finn, The Invisible Man, and The Old Man and the Sea in high school, and I only graduated 5 years ago, from public school in suburban Chicago. And…

Interesting. I usually see them in Fantasy, along with Jordan, Sanderson, etc. Admittedly the two categories are pretty close.

There are so many sub-genres in science fiction, and I think the fact that there is such a label is not even necessary, more a consequence of lots of different 'unworthy' books being shoved under the same header. Just like "YA" seemingly only having the commonality that the main characters are teenagers, what do…

I didn't really like the first Hunger Games book and never got around to anything else in the franchise, but to be fair, the reason that's such a cliche now is that the Hunger Games came first in the current wave, and inspired a flood of ripoffs. Suzanne Collins has said she wrote the books to protest media coverage…

Fair enough. I guess I'm still thinking of his reputation pre-movie.