Sounds like a perfect fit! If there’s one thing young adults love these days, it’s fascists.

Odds on the Red Paladins being racist caricatures through at least two of Miller’s drafts?

The Bitch in the Water by Frank Miller.

Chumbawumba Frank!

In which the Lady of the Lake becomes a ninja prostitute!

You should check out 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back, it’s Mike Nelson from MST3K and Connor Lestowka from RiffTrax reading RPO and Armada and it’s amazing.

Do nerds really still need the constant coddling of stories about how special their nerdiness will make them? That someday, somehow, all the pop cultural obsessions they hold will click into place and give them the opportunity to prove their greatness?

There’s something just a little insulting to how commonplace the references are, too. You like Ghostbusters? You’re a geek like me! Isn’t it fun to like nerdy things unlike everyone else?

I’m beginning to think that there’s something not right about the Osteopathic Department at the MSU medical school. Bears looking into, at the least.  

Okay so here’s what actually happened: The movie was announced, and more people decided to read the source material. The source material is absolute trash and so more people are going to hate it and voice their opinions.

“The book ends with (slight spoiler) a record of Halliday explicitly warning people not to repeat his mistakes, and withdraw into entertainment to avoid a world he was too meek to face.”

Yeah, but that’s kind of like ending The Expendables with a coda in which Stallone says violence is not the answer to anyone’s…

Let this corny slice of 1980s nostalgia be your tomb for all eternity!

Reading the book makes it abundantly clear that Cline, on a fundamental level, does not understand the concept of imagination.

I’m pessimistic because the book was the worst work of mainstream fiction I’d ever read.

The book was incredibly popular and I bet many of us, myself included, did read it. And boy was that a mistake. We are at least somewhat justified in hating this.

I think my main problem with the pop culture references as plot in the book is that none of it is really hyper specific enough to make it feel like the author is just filling the story with things he loves personally but more throwing in things just about everyone will recognize on a basic level, thereby coming across…

Ugh. Even a good review makes this sound fucking unendurable. Gaze in awe at the imaginative mindscape of these daring young dreamers, who steal meaningless fragments of other people’s coherent work and mash them together in the most thoughtless way possible!

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Grayson Allen must be kicking himself.

“I didn’t even know that was an option, five!?!”