I don't think anything I voted for made any of these lists except for Master Filmmaker Of Tomorrow, and that's only because most of the directors I would have voted for weren't options.

So, Richard Brody?

I agree with all of this. In addition to your points about 5 Guys (which I agree is way overhyped, even though I ate there a lot one summer because it was conveniently located on my route home from my internship), their fries just taste overwhelmingly of peanut oil and a lot of times they actually seem over-fried.…

Any time I have McD's fries they are waaaaay too salty.

1. Penn Station
2. Arby's curly fries
3. Steak n Shake cheese fries
4. Wendy's (most improved fry)

Figuratively.

Thanks, I will definitely check out Giovanni's Room soon.

I have not. I've only read a story collection and Ask the Dust.

Yeah, it really worked for me as a kid, but everyone I've known who has tried to read it as an adult has found it bloated and painfully slow.

I just meant more like you (or rather I) end up reading 10 pages of 5 things rather than 50 pages of one thing. So you (I) end up not really having read anything in that time. What can I say, I'm very indecisive. (I was very decisive about reading Indecision, though.)

That album is really good. I like the gentle acoustic approach to Christmas music. (It even brings out the best in John Denver.) Burl Ives' "Christmas Eve" is in a similar (though more mournful and religious and less jazzy) vein, and it's some of my favorite Christmas music, especially "The Friendly Beasts" which…

Exactly the same for me! Amazing how Baldwin keeps deepening and expanding the themes throughout the book. And even though it's really short, there's so much packed in there.

Yeah, it's certainly not a book where one could fully get everything the first time around, and one's attention/patience/comprehension will ebb and flow for any number of reasons throughout the read. That chapter really is the place where a bunch of different threads come together in an amazingly virtuoso way.

That scene is amazing and hilarious. And it's meant to thoroughly blur the line between fantasy and reality, so the confusion is part of the fun there.

On the other hand, it can also make it too easy to switch books, and you end up channel-surfing through your Kobo trying to figure out what you're in the mood to read and end up reading nothing.

The P&V Demons still sits on my shelf unread. I need to get on that.

And you can listed to the recorded conversations between Bogdanovich and Welles, which may be even better! - https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I've only read chunks and chapters of that book. Might have to finally go through the full thing, but I've drifted away a bit from my love of 70s New Hollywood over the years, so I'm not sure how it would read for me now.

I tried reading Snow Crash a while back and just could not make my way through Stephenson's prose. Something about it gave me a headache.

You do spend more time with Dedalus in Ulysses, especially in the opening section, but you also get Blazes Boylan to knock him down a bit, and then you get Leopold Bloom shitting, batin', and eating gorgonzola sandwiches all day!