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"whilst I concur wholeheartedly with the detailed rebuttal you have given, I alas remain uncertain, caged by the incongruous gut feeling that compels me."

Let the whole world know, that I'm a big ole asshole.

(Harvest moon)
I see the days grow shorter
I feel the nights grow cold
I sense the darkness clearer
I feel a presence here

I know they'll find her some day
They find them all that way
After the thaw in springtime
The snow melts away

In my culture we sing our religious allegiance to the decapitated head bust of the great dictator who secularised the country

(not even joking)

Day 2: he buys an axe and a walkman.

He'll kick yer fuckin' ass

Probably Don Quixote. It started off really well, but it devolved towards the end into this long-unending self-referential rant full of name-drops and exposition, and I could barely follow any of it and pushing through that was a huge chore.

I later learned I had read a bad translation, and that there is one good translation out there I should try, but the whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth and I don't want to go anywhere near that book again.

I think I had the same feeling the first time I read Sirens of Titan. Then I read it a few years later, and it just clicked and I was enthralled by the long crazy ride.

I hope you're joking.

Martin knows how to write people. He can create the most vile, repulsive, irredeemable characters known to man and then teaches them mercy, honour, and sacrifice by forcing them into situations where they have to question who they are.

He redeems the irredeemable, not only in the text, but also outside of it by merit of the sheer humanism he expresses in his works.

I learned a lot about humanity, mercy, and forgiveness just by reading his books. No other author has come close to reaching me in such ways.

"Repent Harlequin!"

He is an insufferable narcissistic nobhead, but his writing is punchy and definitely interesting.

I thought the film was good.

No, King writes well. It's very much from the heart and you can relate to the emotions he lays down effortlessly on every page. I think his strength is creating mysteries, and his weakness is over-explaining said mysteries.