"Robin Williams comes and plays Transformers with me in my living room!"

This may be the most amazing sentence I've ever read.   Imagine Harlan Ellison and Robin Williams playing Transformers.   That's just great.

"At another, the network insisted that a WASP lawyer be added to the cast to counteract all the Jews."

This is just gross - and something Ellison would have fought against, I think.

More than I thought I would.   The problem with purchasing the book is that it is a $35 hardcover, I'm assuming it's huge, and I don't really think I'll reread this.   I would read it if the library system had it, though. 

So I will be basing my vote off the excerpt. 

The library doesn't have a copy, and I'm unlikely to purchase this.   The Hugo packet provided an excerpt, so I'll probably base my vote on that?

So far, I'm enjoying the introduction by David Gerrold: 

"That was Authentic Harlan—not wearing his Harlan suit—just a little old Jewish man who could sit and type. "

Also, I hate it when people say this: 

"He is my big brother from another mother."

I just cringe.   Laaaame. 

As much as I'm enjoying this, and hope to enjoy the book, I don't enjoy much nonfiction, biography included, as much as I enjoy fiction.   And to top it off, I'm not invested enough in Ellison to buy a $35 dollar biography on him.

I started on the graphic novels - I want to read Monsteress Volume one before I move onto two and although I don't own volume two of Paper Girls, I do own volume one and want to read that before 3, and volume one of Bitch Planet before I read volume two.    But mostly I'm trying to do this in order of the finalist list, if only because I like that kind of orderly process and otherwise I'll just pick up whatever I want and not really even try for the ones I don't think will interest me - and that would be a shame.  I've read some damn find things, like River of Teeth, that I thought would not interest me from the description.