Seconded. And it reminds me that I’m a liar in an earlier comment where I said The Firm is the only book I’ve read more than half of before quitting. Contact is at least another one...

Interesting. For me, I tried The Road several times on a kindle and couldn’t do it. I borrowed a real-book version and finished it immediately.

I couldn’t disagree more. I read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest before I saw the movie. I was so looking forward to the movie. I was so disappointed. I might like it more now that decades have past, but it was unforgivable at the time.

Agreed on Tom Bombadil, but I’m still bitter that they left out the Scouring of the Shire. I really, really liked that chapter. But his earlier treatment of Saruman in TT obviated it.

You know, it’s funny, but I don’t think I would have liked LOTR if I had read it correctly. I was probably 11 or so, and I got a hold of The Two Towers and it was fantasy and I read it and I liked it. I think I finished RotK before reading Fellowship, too.

Agreed (and my only comments have come post-Kinja). I loved the old AV Club comment section much more.

Never finished The Firm. Got about 150 or so pages in. Probably one of the few novels that I’ve gotten that far into and never finished.

Haven’t seen Kingsmen, and not particularly interested in, but I will gladly co-sign any bashing of Mark Millar.

Yeah, despite that really being a kind of violation of the theme of the story, I agree. Hope isn’t hope anymore when it’s realized, etc., but it’s not like every reader wouldn’t just imagine that scene anyway, right? They earned it.

I keep on trying to give PKD a chance. Do Androids...didn’t do it for me. Then I read Flow My Tears..., and I’m trying to get through Man in the High Castle. I really, really want to like his novels, but I just can’t seem to get much enjoyment from them, intellectually or emotionally or much any other way.

I loved the movie so much I read the book. I was living in England at the time and a few of my friends were Scottish. I could handle the accent, but the book just didn’t have Ewan MacGregor’s charisma to hold it up.

I miss TheLastPsych.

There is an Outrage Machine powered by blogs such as this one. It is often accused of “clickbait” or “being an SJW”, both of which are missing the point. It is a problem because the machine is an echo chamber where people feed more and more outrage into each other, but then they rarely try to leave the machine and try…

Preach!

It was your last line that did it for me. Why should Bryan Cranston sit out the next couple of plays? You don’t like what he’s saying, so he shouldn’t therefore say things?

Re: Wiping.

How many baked potatoes does it take you to run a football field? I don’t know, maybe you’re ultra-athletic and whatnot, and you can run multiple football fields per baked potato.

Lieberman was never in his court. Lieberman voted for—no, campaigned for—McCain in 2008, and “threatened” to caucus with the Republicans in 08 as well.

Your.

I’m not sure there is an end game for progressivism. I’m also not sure there should be. Certainly willing to hear a case for it, though.