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mcustic posted:pls abandon anime and come post with us in tbb, ty Perhaps you should join anime and become even more powerful.
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May 18, 2016 23:01
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GorfZaplen posted:Perhaps you should join anime and become even more powerful. real honest truth I sometimes cannot tell if I am responding to a new poster or not because half of these anime avatars look the same to me EDIT: I went back and looked and I guess its all the same character?      
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May 18, 2016 23:22
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Mel Mudkiper posted:real honest truth I sometimes cannot tell if I am responding to a new poster or not because half of these anime avatars look the same to me Someone spent nearly a thousand dollars on avs of a single character for almost every poster on the subforum.
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May 18, 2016 23:36
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It's Lum from Urusei Yatsura, a long-running surreal comedy manga/anime from Rumiko Takahashi. I don't know why someone bought everyone Lum avatars, but she's a good character from a good show and it's worth checking out.
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May 18, 2016 23:39
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Recommend me the Evangelion of literature
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May 19, 2016 00:51
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Recommend me the Evangelion of literature portnoys complaint
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Recommend me the Evangelion of literature it's probably ulysses
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Recommend me the Evangelion of literature I don't know what that means.
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May 19, 2016 02:45
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Recommend me the Evangelion of literature VALIS by Philip K. Dick quote:When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy, or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.
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May 19, 2016 02:55
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:Recommend me the Evangelion of literature How do you feel about books in which the last man and woman on earth gently caress each other until their bodies come together as a single perfect hermphradotic godchild
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May 19, 2016 02:56
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:VALIS by Philip K. Dick I was thinking about this or the next book in the loose trilogy, The Divine Invasion, which is less of a novel inspired by early gnosticism so much as an honest to god gnostic text written completely in earnest. Also, I'm always torn as to whether I recommend people dig into the Exegesis before or after reading VALIS. I somehow read it first and I feel like that changed the experience in weird ways.
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May 19, 2016 03:07
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VALIS looks completely bonkers and I've never read anything by the author before, so I've ordered it from my local library. Thanks for the recs!
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May 19, 2016 03:13
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Mel Mudkiper posted:How do you feel about books in which the last man and woman on earth gently caress each other until their bodies come together as a single perfect hermphradotic godchild The Final Programme is a good book
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May 19, 2016 03:15
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StrixNebulosa posted:VALIS looks completely bonkers and I've never read anything by the author before, so I've ordered it from my local library. Thanks for the recs! You haven't read him, but you've probably seen movies based on his stuff. Total Recall, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, and most recently the netflix series The Man in the High Castle were all based on his books. quote:On February 20, 1974, while recovering from the effects of sodium pentothal administered for the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth, Dick received a home delivery of Darvon from a young woman. When he opened the door, he was struck by the beauty of the dark-haired girl and was especially drawn to her golden necklace. He asked her about its curious fish-shaped design. "This is a sign used by the early Christians," she said, and then left. Dick called the symbol the "vesicle pisces". This name seems to have been based on his conflation of two related symbols, the Christian ichthys symbol (two intersecting arcs delineating a fish in profile) which the woman was wearing, and the vesica piscis.[23] VALIS is sortof the deep end of his weird. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is more accessible if you want to start in the shallow end; it's the novel Blade Runner was based on. tuyop posted:I don't know what that means. I watched an episode of it once. There were robot suits, also cryptic references to Gnosticism. anilEhilated posted:Book Barn's opinion on him is somewhat conflicted but I love Borges's short stories. Give me the names of these heretics who don't like Borges The Collected Fictions is basically the best thing anyone can read Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 03:29 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 03:21
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UBIK is my favorite PKD. It's a book that manages to rewrite its entire premise about once a chapter, not only the plot stuff but also the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the story, and this continues up until the closing lines on the last page. It somehow manages to do this without ever contradicting itself. It ties into Dick's personal religious stuff too, where there a God and a very powerful energy look alike and there's no such thing as truly verifiable anyway, and salvation is opposed to entropy rather than sin. Mover fucked around with this message at 03:35 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 03:31
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GorfZaplen posted:The Final Programme is a good book No the other one with the last man and woman on earth loving themselves into a hermaphroditic godchild
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May 19, 2016 03:34
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:You haven't read him, but you've probably seen movies based on his stuff. I actually haven't seen any of those!  I've been meaning to watch Blade Runner for ages and ages because I loved Neuromancer so much, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Fortunately it's on netflix now, so I have no excuse aside from my own laziness.
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May 19, 2016 03:52
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StrixNebulosa posted:I actually haven't seen any of those! My favorite troll argument: "Blade Runner is Harrison Ford's best movie."
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My favorite troll argument: "Blade Runner is Harrison Ford's best movie." is that really a troll argument
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May 19, 2016 03:58
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Yeah that seems pretty much true
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May 19, 2016 03:59
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Yeah that seems pretty much true hence its power
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May 19, 2016 04:02
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but airforce one is up there
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this thread made me want to buy books so i bought cocaine nights by ballard, waiting for the barbians by coetzee and the cold war by john lewis. also the second volume of nichijou, which everyone should read
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Parallax posted:this thread made me want to buy books so i bought cocaine nights by ballard, waiting for the barbians by coetzee and the cold war by john lewis. also the second volume of nichijou, which everyone should read I don't get this at all. And yeah, what else is up for best Harrison Ford movie? Star Wars? Is a children's movie ever an actor's best movie? And Indiana Jones is a cartoon so... The Fugitive and K-19 are fine, I guess.
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tuyop posted:I don't get this at all. The first two girls have happy "million dollar" smiles that I am going to protect, whereas the bottom girl has a bad smile that's value is much lower. I hope this explanation combined with the art helps you to "get this"
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May 19, 2016 05:01
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anilEhilated posted:Passage at Arms by Glen Cook. Thanks, I'll check it out. It looks like it's part of a series, should I start elsewhere or is it more or less standalone?
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May 19, 2016 05:22
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Radio Spiricom posted:the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya evokes some pretty explicit connections between it and entry-level postmodern fiction. non-linearity, metafiction, genre pastiche and parody, repetition, and themes such as alienation, loss of grand narrative, and information-as-virus are all present.
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May 19, 2016 05:39
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Rotoru posted:Thanks, I'll check it out. It looks like it's part of a series, should I start elsewhere or is it more or less standalone? It's set in the same universe as Cook's Starfishers Trilogy, but there's no other connection between it and the earlier books that I can remember.
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May 19, 2016 05:41
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tuyop posted:I don't get this at all. you're dumb
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tuyop posted:I don't get this at all. i dont know which part of this post is more autistic
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May 19, 2016 07:11
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Mover posted:UBIK is my favorite PKD. It's a book that manages to rewrite its entire premise about once a chapter, not only the plot stuff but also the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the story, and this continues up until the closing lines on the last page. Ubik is my fav as well. Definitely a book that, when I finished, I had to sit down and give it a good long think as to what the gently caress went on, and it's PKD so you can't be sure there's even a real coherent answer in there somewhere. Weeks later I'm still pondering over it, it's a fantastic book. It's also fun because he switches between poignant philosophical ponderings and nutfuck insanity pretty swiftly and unexpectedly
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May 19, 2016 10:04
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Philip K. Dick really does write like a certain kind of anime plot, a faux kind of depth, at every moment holding on to whatever seems like the coolest thing, and half-baked philosophical themes all coming together into something actually quite fantastic. For some reason my favourites tend to be rather a different selection than most though, my PKD toplist going more along the lines of: Galactic Pot Healer, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. It really is surprisingly easy to imagine an awesome anime treatment of any of those, far easier than to imagine a movie certainly.
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May 19, 2016 11:59
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Mr. Squishy posted:Nobody reads PYF it's a forum of user control panel browsers. sanitorium under the sign of the hourglass!!! in keeping with the theme of this forum, it's illustrated by the author, like manga. and it's great. major kafka feels.
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May 19, 2016 13:02
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Mr. Squishy posted:Gaddis' Agapé Agape is basically a Bernhard cover song. but this is the post I was looking for, I'm checking this out, hope it's good. everyone read some thomas bernhard, he's the best angry austrian since you know who
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May 19, 2016 13:03
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My favorite troll argument: "Blade Runner is Harrison Ford's best movie." Blade Runner had his best acting, but American Graffiti is the best movie he's in. 
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May 19, 2016 13:44
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Zas posted:everyone read some thomas bernhard, he's the best angry austrian since you know who Who?
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May 19, 2016 15:29
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Click this link to see Hitler's face literally emerging from a naked woman's torso.
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Lots of really good recommendations here. I've been on a sort of Autobiographical kick recently. I've enjoyed Langston Hughes' The Big Sea, Ross Mathews' Man Up!, and Rick Lax's Lawyer Boy. What are some other excellent autobiographies people can recommend? I'll probably try VALIS, even if it isn't what I'm really looking for. Also, as a Manga recommendation, I suggest you guys read Solanin by Inio Asano. It's a standalone story you can read in a few hours, and possibly one of my favorite books, dealing with how we face our mundane lives and what meaning we find in it.
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Julias posted:Lots of really good recommendations here. The best one I've read in the last few years. Despite the description, it's not a tearjerker, there's lots of fun and funny bits in there, too.
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