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Wallace Sellars
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Tom Turner’s PALM BEACH PERFIDIOUS 
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Doug Centers
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MARSHALL ROGERS: BRIGHTEST DAYS and DARKEST KNIGHTS by Messer and Cassell

Done mostly in interview format. He had such a small amount of Batman material but the impact on me as a youth was great.
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John Popa
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I picked up Stephen King's latest, "Never Flinch" but I'm honestly tired of the Holly Gibney character.  Anybody else suffering Holly fatigue?  

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Yep, if I pick up a new King book and see her name, I immediately put it back down.
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Mark Haslett
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Ed: I saw Kubrick’s LOLITA before reading the novel and it left me uncomfortably aware of all the lavish effort Nabokov spent in Humbert’s mind justifying his amorous feelings. The economy of Kubrick’s version left me admiring Nabokov’s style without feeling enriched because, at heart, LOLITA is a pretty unhealthy story which seems to side step the central horrors of its own premise. Makes me want to warn you about the effect of seeing the movie first- if that’s where you are.

edit: "Humberto"? No. Humbert.

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Edward Aycock
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Makes me want to warn you about the effect of seeing the movie first- if that’s where you are.
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Thanks, Mark.  I'm hopefully going into this with my eyes wide open instead of wide shut (see what I did there?) but yeah, part of me is like, "Do I even want to go down this road?"


Yep, if I pick up a new King book and see her name, I immediately put it back down.
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John, yeah, I don't find her annoying so much as really boring though her cutesy habit of saying "poopy" does grate.  I also find the two Robinson siblings who are simply the best at everything they do a bit much. 


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