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According to a comment on Amazon, "The "Mr. Goodbar" of the title is simply the name of one of Terry's haunts". There's another explanation here: Looking for Mr. Goodbar - the implication seems to be that the real-life killer had become known as 'Mr Goodbar' because of the novel and film that...

The protagonist isn't looking for an ideal man - she's just looking for casual sex. Maybe that's what 'Mr Goodbar' means - a casual sex partner. But why 'Goodbar' specifically? Was this some kind of 70s slang?

I haven't read LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR, but I have seen the film. Does the book explain the title? There's certainly no explanation in the film. Who is Mr Goodbar?

Orson Scott Card belongs in a very small category of authors whom I find so thoroughly vile and repulsive as individuals that I could never bring myself to actually read their work: The Hypocrites of Homosexuality - Orson Scott Card

Justin Cronin's THE PASSAGE might also be your kind of thing, though you may want to wait until 2014, when the series is scheduled to be completed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passage_(2010_novel)

It's not actually a series, but Stephen King's THE STAND would probably appeal to you - try reading the uncut version, which is something like 1000 pages long.

For the last couple of years, I've been adding the cover of whatever book I'm currently reading to my Facebook page. I did this mainly because people would often post interesting comments. Only later did it occur to me that the album I had created also served as a complete list of the books I'd...