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It came out in 2005, before City of Thieves so I would bet your library has it. I haven't read it but it has pretty great reviews. (And in looking into this I learned that Benioff is married to Amanda Peet.)

I really loved City of Thieves so I picked this one up. It's good. It's a simpler story and a fairly quick read. Have you read his short story collection (When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories))?

It's too bad if it is true (and it certainly appears to be what's happening). Overall I think he's done a great job. But when you fold like that, someone's got to take the blame.

He's great but whenever I see him I can't help thinking of this:

This made me laugh really hard ... [media=''] [/media]

Me too. I'm loving it.

I just went out and bought the deluxe version. I have not listened to the stream or tracked it down via other methods so I'm looking forward to getting home tonight and listening to it all for the first time.

As another complete aside, this is absolutely correct. Such a great album.

Agreed. And I really really hope that “Hallelujah” is a new REM song and not a new REM cover of the Leonard Cohen song. Because the world does not need another cover of that song ...

Tracklist for REM's next greatest hits release out November 15. R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 Disc 1: 1. “Gardening At Night” 2. “Radio Free Europe” 3. “Talk About The Passion” 4. “Sitting Still” 5. “So. Central Rain” 6. “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville” 7. “Driver 8″ 8. “Life And How To Live It” 9. “Begin The Begin” 10. “Fall On Me” 11. “Finest Worksong” 12. “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” 13. “The One I Love” 14. “Stand” 15. “Pop Song 89″ 16. “Get Up” 17. “Orange Crush” 18. “Losing My Religion” 19. “Country Feedback” 20. “Shiny

Although Wilco was part of the 1995 H.O.R.D.E. tour ...

The one they refer to in the press release won't be out until November.

Agreed (although I'd back it up to Chronic Town). For most of high school and the first year or so of college I listened to the Dead, Dylan, and the Beatles and a few others. Some of my friends were raving about Murmur and I liked it but it didn't totally grab me. But when Reckoning came out there was no going back. I must have listened to Harborcoat a thousand times. And REM led me to Husker Du, the Minutemen, the Feelies, the Replacements, and so many other great bands.

I'm also reading the Continuum/33 1/3 book about this. One of my favorite albums ...

"Is the new album more like AM or Summerteeth?"

I wonder who is going to be playing guitar with him ...

There is some great stuff on this

Congrats to Tim Wakefield

Great article by Rick Moody about band reunions in general and the Feelies in particular: http://therumpus.net/2011/09/swinging-modern-sounds-31-reunion-fever/

Thoughts? Destroyer of the Void didn't do much for me.

Just saw this. It's a weird movie. It's got some great footage of the 1970's emerging punk scene in New York: Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, etc. But the audio isn't synched to the footage, which is weird to watch for an hour. There are no interviews and only a handful of short random scenes of the musicians outside of the clubs.