The Great Hullabaloo: BOOKS.

[BillyG]

I'm reading Dune for the first time ever. Never seen the film either. My brother was obsessed when I was growing up. So far it feels like the Simarillion.

[Howard]

So Martin. Grabbed a book from the shelf on the way to work and didn't pay attention to what I picked. DoD. Figured, what the hell, I'll read the opening at lunch. Goddamnit. Hooked already.

Didn't want this to get missed by the page turn.

I'm reading Dune for the first time ever. Never seen the film either. My brother was obsessed when I was growing up. So far it feels like the Simarillion.

Stop after the first book.

[BillyG]

Stop after the first book.

The edition I got has some "Families of Dune" and "Religions of Dune" or some such books included. I don't know how they could write about those subjects for whole books, since Dune itself seems to be about those two things.

[Howard]

Dune Messiah wasn't bad (the 2nd book). Children of Dune (3rd) is when the series started to really slide. I finished the 4th (God Emperor of Dune) but gave up on the 5th and 6th (Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune).

Those additional books you have sound like companion books. Not part of the series itself.

[Abraham Smashington]

Yep I'm that guy, but I have got to read this...

Mario Lopez raped a girl, and NBC paid her hush money. Definitely the most damning accusation in the book... but one that Diamond doesn't hedge (like many of the upcoming points). He flat-out says that Mario Lopez "lured [a girl] back to his pad... and was forced to have sex against her will."

NBC's lawyers stepped in to maintain the image of its clean teen stars, though, and paid the girl to be quiet. "And my understanding," Diamond writes, "is that it wasn't a boatload of cash, either, somewhere around fifty grand."

I found this "Variety" article about Lopez being accused of date rape, so there is other corroboration on this. It's amazing -- back in 1993, before the Internet turned the American celebrity gossip press into the British celebrity gossip press, a huge "SBTB" fan like me never heard a word of this. If this date rape accusation had happened 15 years later, within moments of the story coming out a photo of A.C. Slater would've been on Perez Hilton, complete with a MS Paint mouth semen.

NOOOOOOO

[Ed Hocken]

A girl then.....okay.

[Shit Dickface]

more like AC Raper am I right

[Ed Hocken]

Oh yeah!

But I wonder how Rob is handling the news. Man must be demoralized.

[Abraham Smashington]

I'm not going to be the same for awhile guys.

[Ed Hocken]

Rob hasn't been touched like this since that one time at swim camp. OH SNAP!

[Shit Dickface]

Well, if you had to pick your rapist you could probably do a lot worse than Mario Lopez I'm just saying guys

[Abraham Smashington]

I'd rather have him rape me than Max.

[Ed Hocken]

I'd rather have him rape me than Max.

That still leaves the opportunity for Sreech to felch you.

[Timothy225]

Polished off the collection the first three Barsoom books from Burroughs (got it for Christmas), and I'm finishing off the second volume of the Eerie collections from Dark Horse. After that, I got nothing.

[Shit Dickface]

That still leaves the opportunity for Sreech to felch you.

MISTER BELLLDIIIINNGG

Also, Don Winslow's Power of the Dog = still GREAT.