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your review and comment made me spew my morning coffee.You are one warped mo-fo, Mr. Reynolds.
I like that in a Goodreader.
Reynolds is a sick fuck. He lulls us into a stupor with his elaborate professor personna only to zap us with agile one liners when our guard is down. Babies on spits? The Road as low comedy?
The proof that anything can be jabbed with the stick of parody if you have big enough balls.
The proof that anything can be jabbed with the stick of parody if you have big enough balls.
There ought to be a place to show off the best of GR reviews....from the pithiest to the most passionate...a group just for that, a kind of showcase...
You bunch of sycophantic panderers!
Someone has to draw the line in the sand between pithy iconoclasm and just plain evil wrongheadedness.
Mr. Mike Reynolds, you have just wandered into the rocky, barren, non-irrigable terrain of the latter. You, dear sir, are a Tin Man lacking a heart, wielding an ax, and dancing with dead gay icons. Your moral degeneracy and cheerful nihilism -- normally appealing in a Christian Slater in Heathers sort of way -- has left me cold.
Despite all this, I esteem you greatly, you heartless bastard.
And to all of you drooling sycophants: you should wash your tongues thoroughly, knowing full well where they've been.
Someone has to draw the line in the sand between pithy iconoclasm and just plain evil wrongheadedness.
Mr. Mike Reynolds, you have just wandered into the rocky, barren, non-irrigable terrain of the latter. You, dear sir, are a Tin Man lacking a heart, wielding an ax, and dancing with dead gay icons. Your moral degeneracy and cheerful nihilism -- normally appealing in a Christian Slater in Heathers sort of way -- has left me cold.
Despite all this, I esteem you greatly, you heartless bastard.
And to all of you drooling sycophants: you should wash your tongues thoroughly, knowing full well where they've been.
Did we read the same book? I didn't think it was funny at all.Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, I suppose.
Well, Bill, since Mike said in his review that he didn't find it that funny either, then you're agreeing with him. Which makes it quite likely that you actually did read the same book. The Road. By Cormac McCarthy. Which is not funny.
Well, Adam, I was hoping my comment would be the definitive capstone to Mike's review, but I lasted less than two weeks before you burst my bubble.Thanks for nothing, pal.
I think the only way to celebrate these last couple of comments is, in the post-apocalyptic spirit of The Road, Thunderdome. (Adam, hint: blow the whistle, and the big man will fall!)
Whistle blown. Bam, you're down. Sorry, Bill, but the little man on your back is now my catamite (a la The Road). Mmm ... catamites.
And who the fuck are these dim bulbs showing up on the thread trying to tell you that the book's not supposed to be funny? They probably argue with knock-knock jokes too. ('What do mean? Nobody's really there.')These are the kind of people who should have their organs forcibly harvested for transplants. They don't deserve organs.
Psst, David--that mountainman guy freaks me out. I think it's Dan Hagerty, who I always pictured in my nightmares about prison.Aren't you traveling soon? Happy trails!
Mountain Man is right. Probably pure Appalachia right there. Takin' too many potshots at the Hatfields' outhouse across the valley to waste time with your cityfied irony.Anyway. Thanks! Yeah. I leave Friday for SF. I'll be sure to buy you a Golden Gate Bridge ashtray.
and what are you buying ME??I don't want another poopy key chain...something special from SF, please David!
David wrote: "I HATE THIS REVIEW!!!(No offense, Mike Reynolds.)"
C'mon, you know that you wish you'd thought of it first.
Thanks, Robyn. It's weird--I get more responses and affirmations on this goofy one-line throwaway comment than on anything else I've done here....
Jessica wrote: "Ha!your comment will bring it yet more attention...
and likes."
True story, I just voted for it!
David wrote: "I STILL HATE THIS REVIEW."I still love this review and that you still hate this review.
Mike wrote: "And I hear Jerry Lewis does a cameo as the baby on the spit."Goodgoddammit, that still makes chuckle somethin' fierce.
I'm sure the movie will be even funnier ... Viggo Mortensen is a laugh riot.