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Faulkner did it with great success.

I think Occlith got everything. I like "He scrutinized" better than "In scrutiny." Seems more active but that's just my opinion, I think both are correct.

I agree, hard to really critique random dialogue without knowing the context it is set in. Freeze burns is an odd phrase. It made me stumble, sounds a bit too much like freezer burn. Also, it's considered bad form to use an exclamation point outside of dialogue for emphasis. The car...

Write vampire fiction, or starve. Just kidding, but not really.

Decline of money for public education, pervasion of "stupid is cool" philosophies pushed by major media outlets (much easier to entertain someone you have rendered dumb), take your pick really. It's not the kids I'm worried about. They are supposed to be enjoying silly nonsense. It's the...

I used Nabble on one of mine. Works great, easy to set up. You have to pay to not have ads, but I think you will find that is pretty much anything anymore.

I shove East of Eden into every face I see. I think I've done more promotion for John Steinbeck than his agent. It is, without a doubt in my mind, the greatest novel ever written. Ulysses isn't even on my top ten. Convoluted Irish yammering.

I would rather have a watch that turned me into David Hasslehoff. The fat one that throws the cheeseburgers, not the one on Baywatch.

Okay, first off I would like to state clearly that I think Chandler is probably the best crime-writer of ours or any era. I know, bold statement. Comparing Chandler and Hammett is like comparing Mozart and Beethoven. For one, Chandler had the benefit of writing after Hammett, and many...

Any Rand was a Jewish woman who fled the Bolshevik rebellion in Russia. She got to America, changed her name to something more gentile, wrote several books comparing CEO's to Gods and pretty much painting the lower class as a seething mass of ignorant leeches. She spent her life railing...

Maus if you're looking for something really intense and cerebral. I got both books as a gift when I was 16 and loved them. Watchmen is a bit exhausting to read. I can say this having gone through it a few times. Deadpool graphic novels are great. Funny, interesting, good stuff. I been...

Oh man, I got all excited when I saw this thread, but it's not the David Mitchell I'm thinking of. The one I'm thinking of is on the show Peep Show, That Mitchel and Webb look, and is probably the wittiest, sharpest guy in Britain. He often jokes about being confused for the "novelist" David...

Sedaris is very funny, but I think he's getting a little sedated in France. Still hilarious, though. I have all his stuff.

Dang. Good work man, that's a whole lot of reading. I've read a bit, and enjoyed much of it. Now that you're all out of Holmes you might start jonesing. Check out Christopher Fowler's book, The Victorian Vanishes. Right in the same vein as Doyle.

1984 is brilliant, that's a given. But Orwell's distopian future doesn't seem to me a future only brought on by communism. Sure communism is what Orwell seemed to be most passionate about. Him and Rand. But the only difference between a communist future and a corporate-ruled future (or...

Hey, hows it going. I'm Zach, I live in CO.