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Although I've seen neither Pan's Labyrinth nor The Departed, I can't imagine liking anything more than Children of Men.

Haha, that's what immediately sprang to my mind as well.

The man has a great cinematic eye and was able to make two good films before his own heightened sense of worth caused him to overvalue his own increasingly slipshod scripts that rely on heavy-handed allegories to shroud the carelessly contrived nature of the plots.

I'm a fan of serendipitous.

I nominate Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Sadly, not much of my money this year went to my CD-buying habits, but if it did, I imagine my list would probably bear a great similarity to beer_good's.

I am currently pursuing bachelor's degrees in sociology and magazine journalism.

Well, I imagine the level of enjoyment one received from especially an audiobook of Paradise Lost would depend strongly -- indeed, much more strongly than most audiobooks -- on the strength of the reader's performance.

I feel bad now. I think I read around 26 in 2006, not counting the numerous nonfictions I was assigned for scholastic purposes or graphic novels.

Blindness by José Saramago Going Native by Stephen Wright Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami All within the last two weeks, though -- didn't have to time to read until finals were over.

1. The Counterlife by Philip Roth: five contradicting chapters fit together any way you like them, revealing the malleable nature of identity and how easily a search for truth can be obscured 2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez: magical, dense masterpiece with some...

I hope you enjoy it -- it's one of my favorite books. And as for the books I'd forgotten... Independence Day by Richard Ford The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Plus Sandman Vols. 8-10 And some books I picked up with a gift card to Barnes & Noble...

Between Christmas and a local bookstore going out of business and selling all its stock for one to two dollars, I've picked up a lot: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Cities on the Plain by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit, Run by John Updike Rabbit Redux by...

Spoiler: One of my favorite parts is when Girard is driving his car while reading Camus.

A Tale of Love and Darkness got excellent reviews when it came out two years ago. It's on my to-be-read list -- but, then, what isn't?

I was actually about to make that suggestion.

Oldboy and the other Chan-wook Park films are Korean, not Japanese. My favorite horror films: The Thing by John Carpenter Braindead by Peter Jackson Evil Dead II by Sam Raimi The latter two are more horror-comedy (ooh, that reminds me -- Shaun of the Dead), but they're still great...

I really, really dislike Ayn Rand. I think she has rationalized the huge gap in the standard of living between the North and the South. It's easy to develop (and embrace) a philosophical strategy that says what's best for you is best for all when you're living in countries that primarily...

Yes, and let's not forget that Grass was largely responsible for making the German conscience remain aware of its involvement, making the country confront the demons of its past. Despite his apparent difficulties in dealing with his personal involvement in the Holocaust, he had tremendous...

I would not consider The Crying of Lot 49 a difficult read by any means.