A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.

Films, series, books, albums, games. Skip anything you haven't met.

A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.
Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.





Which one are you? The test above will tell you.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
I did not expect Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger to hit this hard. It is kind to its people, and that kindness is the point. Cool and controlled, which makes the few swells hit harder.
One of the best things I have read this year. Epic in the old sense, and it holds all of it together. Relentless from the first minute, and it never lets go.
Mostly about the craft, the story, memory.
Waterland got under my skin. It never rushes, and it never needs to.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Everything I hoped Will Save The Galaxy For Food would be, and more. Trashy in all the right ways. Already want to read it again.
Mostly about the story.
David Markson at the top of their game with Wittgenstein's Mistress. It lives inside its characters' heads, and that is where it shines. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.