Bah, none of you will talk to me!

Then I'll talk about BOOKS! How do you like that?

First, a meme:

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.
Literate Good Citizen
Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm
Book Snob
Fad Reader
Non-Reader
What Kind of Reader Are You? Create Your Own Quiz

I sorta cheated, because on the one question I picked the second group of books and hadn't read "Moby Dick", but the others didn't fit either ...

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I've never read The Dark is Rising, but at Harry Potter I thought of you fans as I flipped off the trailer.

Also, quick lesson for you all:
Beowulf = Anglo-Saxon/Old English
The Canterbury Tales = Middle English
Shakespeare = MODERN ENGLISH, and so is everything after.
Drill that into your head. Lesson over.

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Why is every critic who dislikes David Sedaris convinced that he made it up? Or obsessed with the fact that he was once a loser? To the second I say: Well, duh, that's the point.

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I wish I could write a book making fun of how goth culture seems to have a need to make kids stuff all about blood and guts and farting darkness. I'm thinking of this when I say this. Now, I don't really have a problem with works that draw on a subtext of a work. Thus why I have no problem with, say, American McGee's Alice or Lost Girls but when morons who've never read the book say to me "Dorothy totally underwent electroshock therapy. I know because I read it on the Internet!" I tend to get testy. And pissed that subtext is mistaken for actual text.

And I guess this isn't so much about Marilyn Manson, because I'm pretty sure he read the Alice tales. I just wish I could go all Woody-Allen-pulling-out-Marshall-McLuhan on their butts sometimes.

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Okay, here's some short reviews of the books without pictures I've been reading:

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