Roger Ebert is one of our greatest living writers, and I am not exaggerating. Do you follow his Twitter stream? It's high volume, but very worthwhile. I've been a fan of his for a long time, but the recent Esquire profile (did you read that? It's really amazing) raised him in my estimation about 10 times.

I'm already seeing the epicness starting to return (in Chapter 10) and I look forward to seeing it continue to grow. :)