I've never read this one, but I loved The Pigman when I was in fourth grade (I think?). It was one of those busted old paperbacks tucked away in a bookshelf in my classroom and it felt like a wonderful little secret back then, 'cause it felt just way more "adult" than anything my peers were reading at the time. There…

@InklingBooks: Wow, that was a remarkably informative response. I do understand, though, that much of the "feel" of the book comes from the work that it put into it. I'm a designer myself and have done more page design than I would like to think about right now. It's an immensely difficult job that gets very little…

This is gonna sound weird, maybe, but I've read plenty of things about Lulu and it sounds great, but none of them have answered what remains (to me) the most important question: what do they feel like?

So apparently Jessica Alba likes to be a "woman of color" only when it is convenient.

I wasn't that crazy about Fight Club the first time around. It's grown on me since, but I still think it gets way more love than it deserves.

I more or less agree with what the commenter said, but this sort of self-reassuring patting-yourself-on-the-back thing seems a little uncouth.

she don't lie

@hortense: @titania1285: Me too! But no snarky comment to make.

@stacyinbean: That is a pretty myopic view of the Allston scene. It's not all overpriced Jean Therapy crap. There are also plenty of regular old sweatpants tucked into those Uggs, too.