Watership Down is basically the Aeneid with rabbits, so if you're looking for fantasy, give that look-see.

You and me both.

Is there any other kind?

There's dry humor in almost all the sagas, at the very least. The poet's sagas usually have some good jibes via the poetry, at the very least.

"Hrolf Kraki" is good stuff. Ever since then, whenever a saga I read fails to mention a werebear, I give it a solid thumbs down.

I liked that first volume of Aquaman. I should check out the second.

Zelazny's one of those guys whose writing started me turning away from guys like Williams. Williams would take 14 pages to tell you something Zelazny could explain in a paragraph.

A Catskill Eagle - is that the one where Susan is kidnapped and Spenser flips his shit?

Still noodling my way through The Golem and the Jinni. It's good stuff, to be sure, especially whenever the principals are together, but it meanders so much I have no problem putting it down for months at a time. I aim to finish it by the end of summer, though. You heard it here first!

This should, of course, read "No horseshit, IV?" instead of my misquote.

Hush and Long Halloween are the same story.

I call 'em as I see 'em.

That's okay, it's not like it's important.

You're allowed to not like it. You're not allowed to claim "it's not good."

This news makes me pretty happy. Y'know, I feel kind of invincible.

No shit, IV?

Reading this article just gave me a bad case of the skeevies. Ugh.

I can tell I'm old, because dressing like Red Sonja doesn't work for me any more. I expect Vikings to be wearing more clothes. It gets cold in Iceland! That's why they call it Iceland, for Odd's sake.

'struth. He got it from murdering people. A lot.

Real Genius is the only movie to get it right, then.