My abuelita used to get me the new Bill O’Reilly book of the year. She really didn’t mean any harm, she’s just a very old school catholic Mexican lady who just accepted whatever she’s told (by the church usually) to accept. She knew I was interested in “politics” and thought I might find them interesting. Unfortunately, the politics I was/am interested in are leftist literature like Marx, Engels, Bakunin, etc among myriad others. Eventually, she started watching Colbert and thought he was so funny and silly (I’m still not sure if she realized it was satire) she started getting me his books. I had a lot of fun reading those. But ultimately, my abuelita is the best and she could get me a pile of shit for Christmas and I wouldn’t love her any less.

Oh, and onetime my fascist uncle got me Atlas Shrugged unironically…that one was pretty bad too.

His internal monologues, man. I was not ready for the humor from such a morally grey character (more like a really dark grey).

The fact he >!becomes Arch Lector and Bayaz’s puppet at the end of LAOK!< was so believable too. More believable than >!Logen becoming King of the North!< in my opinion.