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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 3562189" data-attributes="member: 259">I love The Scar, can't stand Starship Troopers, and think a Saturday morning spent with Calvin and Hobbes is just about perfect <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.This morning i just finished reading <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780670032891-3" target="_blank">The Well of Lost Plots</a>, a book by Jasper Fforde that's a slapstick absurd murder mystery set in about two dozen famous novels.  Light reading, but pretty enjoyable.Yesterday I finished <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=26490&cgi=product&isbn=1932416358" target="_blank">Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things...</a>, which I cannot recommend highly enough.  The introduction, by Lemony Snicket, had me laughing louder than anything I've read in a very long time.  It contains stories by Nick Hornby, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kelly Link, and a bunch of other top-notch writers.  My library had it in the juvenile section, which is I think a mistake:  it's more Young Adult, but it's the kind of YA book that any geek can appreciate.  Check it out!Daniel</blockquote>