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“A Review and A Defense Of Watching Bad Movies This book is split into two stories that run parallel to each other in alternating chapters.

“A really great text about speech. What’s interesting is Mill was writing in the 1800’s, and he was writing about the problems with speech oppressed

“A really good heist book, though more Jim Thompson than Ocean’s 11. A great lesson in good and bad dialog. A lot of the book

“A pretty straight-up comic that aims to please. You’ve got your batman story with some twists, and it appears that’s really all I’m looking for

“A pretty good read, fun sort of lovelorn stuff that takes a pretty unexpected turn. This first book really sets everything up, so rating it

“A pretty good Punisher story, but is there anything that overshadows the Punisher, strapped to a chair, drowning in a bag of pee that’s put

“A pretty good Iron Man book. I think most of Bendis’ detractors would agree he has more trouble with epic crossover books and does a

“A pretty fun concept, and I like how it’s a story that begins at the point where things are close to collapse. Sometimes these things

“A nice premise, S.H.I.E.L.D. figures that Spider-Man, though effective in his own way, is causing a lot of peripheral damage. So, they ask a trio

“A nice little backstory on Daredevil’s father. I don’t know why, but any movie about boxing suckers me in big time. Rocky? Even the shitty

“A monster man has to pee, and he pees from his nipples, much to his own surprise. I can’t provide you a better peek into

“A mixed bag, but a great piece of comics history. The Bad:I don’t normally start with the bad, but I’m going to in this case.

“A mish-mash of standard fantasy tropes that doesn’t seem to do much new and exciting. How come in fantasy comics they’re always finding ancient ruins

“A lot of picture books go off this idea that a kid sees something, kind of assumes it’s scary, and then overthinks the whole situation

“A lot of interesting doors are opened in this book, but none are closed, so it’s a little dissatisfying. I do like the art style,

“A lot of comedians’ books pretty much feel like their sets with a little more framing and context. Which is how this book felt. Mike

“A lot like his last book, this one left me feeling a bit confused, but also kind of awed. Charles Yu is an awesome writer,

“A little Steve Zissou meets…murder mystery? Locked room mystery? Family drama? It’s good. I think it might’ve fit into one volume, which always leads me

“A great, short western. It’s an unbelievable stroke of luck to be living when both Robert Olmstead and Cormac McCarthy are writing. To get one

“A gorilla-man-creature is healed by a witch, who turns him into a baby, and the baby is a successful doctor. I have nothing to say

“A good, but uneven collection of stories. Three very memorable ones involving becoming grown-ups, picking on other people, and a time when Hodgman took one

“A good read. Warren Ellis’ roots come from reading serials that changed things up every issue, and this was a nice way to explore that

“A good read, but I think I have such high expectations that almost nothing can live up to them when it comes to this author.

“A good little series, but here’s a HUGE problem with comics and the amount of big crossover events going on. In order to read this

“A good end to a good series. Ennis delivers a satisfying ending, wraps up what needs wrapping up, and by the time you get there,

“A good book, one of my favorites of 2011. I didn’t give it a perfect rating, but only because I liked Wilson’s previous book, Tunneling

“A fun, quick read. It’s kind of like a business book, but I think it’s really more like a micro-memoir disguised as a business book.

“A fun apocalypse, as fun as apocalypses can be, anyway. Which is pretty fun by my estimation. Catpocalypse: Cats breed out of control, we’re inundated

“A full-length audio review? Why not!?https://www.helpfulsnowman.com/?p=6701“

“A freakshow is busted up when a guy known as “The Goon” stuffs a human worm headfirst into the mouth of a 10-armed mutant, choking

“A decent book, but for me, just not the sum of its parts. You’ve got Gene Luen Yang, who is definitely a comics talent. And

“A dark secret has fallen over the land. Shrouded in mystery and the blood of the innocent, will Verona be rescued from the clutches of

“A celebrity among classics, I just read this for the first time at the age of 29. I don’t know how I ducked it up

“A bunch of fellow librarians tried to get this book pulled from the digital service Hoopla. I think they were wrong, and I’m certain they

“A book that’s pleasant and quiet without being boring, which is a rarity as far as I can tell. The book has a structure to

“A bit too much waiting to hear an explanation for what appear to be inexplicable events, but it was still intriguing enough to keep me

“90% of this book involves superheroes punching an endless stream of ice monsters, who they KNOW are endless, but they kind of just keep punching

“7 volumes deep, we’ve hit the F, Marry, Kill review. I just want to be clear, this is John Allison’s fault for having three main

“6 volumes deep I usually run out of steam on reviews. Should we talk about, I don’t know, James Tynion’s beard? It’s a solid nerd

“50 pages into this book, I was thinking, “Ah, Christ. So Mr. Palahniuk is weighing in on American politics too? Is fucking EVERYONE an expert

“5 stars, good ending, good journey. Nice job, everyone. This’ll probably be the most fucked-up 10 year high school reunion of all time.Someone should totally

“5 stars, all the way. I was skeptical when I started out. Shit My Dad Says was one of my favorite reasons for Twitter to

“5 stars, a tour de force. This is the one that’s going to buy me a supercar. Or at least an issue of a magazine

“5 stars, 10 out of 10 stars, thumbs all up, whatever number you’ve got. Worse to have 1 thumb or three? These are the questions

“5 stars for now. But we’ll have to try this whole lucid dreaming thing before I’ll really know. I have very boring, fairly vivid dreams,

“101 things! That’s like everything.How many can I remember…1. The 180-degree rule: this way, you don’t look dopey.2. Remove things from your actors’ eyeline so

“1. If you don’t like scantily-clad women in your comics, do not read this. You won’t like it, I’m telling you now, just don’t do

“A defeat in Vietnam was imminent. He nation was also mired in recession. Labor strikes crippled the workforce. Unemployment soared. So did the crime rate.

“ There’s this weird thing with superheroes that goes right into this discussion I had with my brother a couple weeks ago. We were talking

“ [this is a wordless review for a wordless graphic novel. I’m getting so art school these days]”

“+ The drawings are pretty great. – Let me read to you my board book, Cynical Pete: Sometimes Cynical Pete thinks people slap a word

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“[Pete cracks his knuckles, starts typing] Before you read this review, if you want to read this book, do that first. It’s short, it’s cheap,

“[Nelson from Simpsons laugh]”

“[insert thoughtful treatise on trauma and its after-effects here]Fuckin’ awesome shit, bro.”

“[After Action Letter Written by Batman] Superman- After reviewing the after-action report collected in this volume, I have to make some critical points about how

“…Aaaaand this confirms that the decision to read these in a tight timeline was correct. There’s no fucking way you would remember what was going

“*UPDATE I accidentally read this twice. Didn’t even realize that I’d read it before until I went to put it here on Goodreads. It should

“*****This contains spoilers for both this book AND Batman: the Long Halloween. So if you haven’t read Long Halloween, I’d say go for that one

“”Your barfing broke the spell.””

“”The room where you sleep is small and cramped. In one corner is stored the sacks of seeds needed for planting. There are not as

“”Son, get my life savings out of the closet.” “You mean the hundred pennies in the jar?” “Yes, son.” … Can people understand why I’m

“”Sometimes the weight of armor is harder to bear than the weight of the past.” Oh, barf. Red Sonja is Conan but without the spectacle

“”Should you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless, hair-trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over a chronic melancholia

“”Hey, Sam I Am? Listen to what I’m saying. I understand that you really enjoy Green Eggs & Ham. And that you feel like I

“”…What is art not? Well, as I’ve described it, Art is not about communication. Art is not a way of conveying information. It’s a way

” Weird. Not a spoiler because it’s how the volume begins, but what you should know is that Doctor Octopus has put his mind into

“This movie smells so strongly of Paul WS Anderson that when he showed up in the credits, the movie made a lot more sense.”

“You know how in horror movies you’re like, “Well, these people are making terrible choices, but they’re all 19, bad choices are kind of the

“I tried to figure out the plot of this movie afterward, and I went home and spray painted a bunch of words on the floor

“Hear me out: This is basically a Kevin Smith, “two people in a room with a good excuse to tell stories” movie, only with a

“Normally I don’t write plot summaries as reviews, but in the case of Cats, I think it’s fine because I’m going to get 10% of

“Shoutout to the underappreciated Creedence, who was by far the most over-the-top actor in a movie where a guy yells “Oh My GOOOOOOOOd!” with a

“I just read a 5-page Mary Sue article about the Chris Pratt controversies. You all need to get a fuckin’ life.”

“It was a bold choice to film the subway portion in real time. That’s what they did, right? That’s why it took so long?  It’s

“Everyone seems to have forgotten what was so cool about the original Scream: When you saw it, up to then, most other big slashers were

“The movie rules so hard, and everyone who says it’s pro-police or whatever probably also thinks Starship Troopers is pro-war propaganda, Fight Club is about

“This seems to be the point where they pushed the connection to the original movie to its breaking point and then a tad further. Which

“Just giving this 5 stars because it’s not worth my life to give it anything less, and Swifties are one mild apocalypse from an uprising

“3 stars for Scream 3, 2 stars added for Parker Posey, movie MVP.”

“This Jada biopic has not aged well. “

“Is Bo Jackson the man who gave the biggest singlehanded fuck you to Florida of all time? Yes. And it was 100% deserved.”

“Only someone who has never worked a day in their life would balk at the idea of retiring in their 30s.”

“Too competent and reasonable to be super cult-y, too dull to be a mainstream success. Everything in this movie works except the plotting. The characters

“One day Tom Felton will have a nice dad in a movie.”

“What is it with movies that have “wax” in the title? Waxwork and House of Wax: both movies that are a little slow and uninteresting

“A good movie even though it participates in the propaganda movement to trick us into thinking museums are cool.”

“My advice to slashers is to go after the elderly instead of teens. Less mobile, often alone, treat yourself to a Werther’s after each success.”

“This movie has added a new entry to me Eccentric Millionaire Ideas Book: Open a bar that’s completely upside-down with all the furniture and shit

“Good job of shooting for a plot that feels a little like a genuine D&D session where things kind of happen as you go and

“Knowing the ending ahead of time destroyed this movie for me. I gather it’s not that way for everyone, but for me, knowing exactly what

“Endlessly fascinated by the garage door kill in this movie.  On one hand, the one with a garage door opener in it, I get it,

“Well, we did it.  This definitely has the hallmarks of a bad movie. The sloth puppet looks horrendous and yet is in 100% daylight from

“Jigsaw used to kill people like doctors because they had C- bedside manner. Now he’s a vigilante going after total scumbag supervillains.  I miss the

“I was preparing my partner for this movie not to be very cat-centric, and I was wrong to do so. #General4Eva”

“Saw this way too young and only remember the Buckwheat.”

“I couldn’t help but imagine what would compel me to risk my life for my job. Pete, they’re shutting down your project tomorrow, so if

“It’s fine until it’s not.  I’m not the biggest endings make or break the movie person, but this one was a bit end-less, even for

“Rimshot is Wishbone with a couple extra pounds and that works.”

“I don’t know what you people want. There was a flaming tuba for almost no reason. Those who know fear burned at the touch of