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Oh, is this where that meme started? Some of these are great.
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May 13, 2020 04:23
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ive read the first four dune books in the last few weeks and now i hate myself and God. im gonna read the fifth
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May 15, 2020 01:28
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chernobyl kinsman posted:ive read the first four dune books in the last few weeks and now i hate myself and God. im gonna read the fifth you could stop
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May 15, 2020 01:31
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chernobyl kinsman posted:ive read the first four dune books in the last few weeks and now i hate myself and God. im gonna read the fifth We will know its a problem if you get to the Brian Herbert ones StrixNebulosa posted:you could stop shut up loser do not discourage him from this act of literary perdition
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May 15, 2020 01:34
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just sayin. if you don't like a book you don't have to read it
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May 15, 2020 01:36
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StrixNebulosa posted:just sayin. if you don't like a book you don't have to read it hating Dune is the most fun I have had in this hell world in weeks
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May 15, 2020 01:37
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StrixNebulosa posted:just sayin. if you don't like a book you don't have to read it This isn't true at all!
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May 15, 2020 01:52
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StrixNebulosa posted:you could stop i can't, no
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May 15, 2020 02:55
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i do think it's very funny that herbert's original reason for the Butlerian Jihad (lmao 'butlerian jihad') was that the computers were doing abortions but his kid had to retcon that in the fanfic books dune is the most lapsed-Catholic book ive ever read
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May 15, 2020 02:56
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Why didn't the alt-right get into Dune? That thing where people issue mind-control commands by the right combination of gestures and pronunciation seems really MRA-friendly.
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May 15, 2020 04:57
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Nazis don't even like Robert Heinlein. I guess they don't like to read.
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May 15, 2020 04:57
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Nazis don't even like Robert Heinlein. I guess they don't like to read. The Nazis that like to read like to read history books*. They are also majoring in or majored in political history. *) And anime.
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May 15, 2020 05:03
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Why didn't the alt-right get into Dune? That thing where people issue mind-control commands by the right combination of gestures and pronunciation seems really MRA-friendly. The first instance of the word "jihad" causes irrevocable pant-making GBS threads in chuds..
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May 15, 2020 16:39
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oh boy if the rest of the forums being overwhelmed with tedious culture war drivel we now get to have it about loving Dune of all things
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May 15, 2020 16:40
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Keep your POLITICS out of my NOVELS.
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May 15, 2020 16:51
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Yes, that is the problem with a bunch of socially stunted keyboard addicts filtering the breadth of human experience into a blip of a culture battle between two forces largely composed of self-fulfilling stereotypes its the politics
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May 15, 2020 17:02
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Pls don't discuss politics in the chat thread, Mel
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May 15, 2020 17:21
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shut the gently caress up about nazis in the book forum chat thread unless it’s “i read a book about naziism today”
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May 15, 2020 18:09
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anyway I read a translation of the radio interview with Houellebecq from a couple of weeks ago or so, and he was talking about a supposed beef between Nietzsche and Flaubert about writing. all his citation was “I can’t recall where” so does anyone know if/where this exists?
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May 15, 2020 18:17
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Why didn't the alt-right get into Dune? That thing where people issue mind-control commands by the right combination of gestures and pronunciation seems really MRA-friendly. it also explicitly and entirely embraces eugenics
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May 15, 2020 18:54
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Female characters have too much power and agency.
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May 15, 2020 19:00
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Dune is basically a verbose Edgar Rice Burroughs novel with a dash of Rudyard Kipling Its a colonial era adventure story for children retold by a luddite who loves LSD Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 15, 2020 |
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May 15, 2020 19:05
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Luddism is correct
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May 15, 2020 19:49
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Somehow, the bit from Dune that has stuck with me the most is that Baron Harkonnen's globe has ice caps of "finest cloudmilk diamonds", which is the kind of phrase that I would put in a Lyttle Lytton entry.
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May 15, 2020 22:00
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Love to read 1800s swashbuckling adventure books where by page 700 there have been like three swashes buckled. I'm starting to think whoever decided to publish the first abridged novel had the right idea.
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May 16, 2020 01:07
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Dune is basically a verbose Edgar Rice Burroughs novel with a dash of Rudyard Kipling there is no adventure. nothing happens. every novel is 98% dialogue. the space opera framing is a trick to get you to listen to herbert's thoughts about leadership and terrestrial ecosystems.
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May 16, 2020 03:10
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To his credit, there could have been way more weird sex stuff in there. He was at the prime moment for warping boy nerds with a perv science fiction trojan horse.
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May 16, 2020 03:19
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:To his credit, there could have been way more weird sex stuff in there. He was at the prime moment for warping boy nerds with a perv science fiction trojan horse. the entire fourth book is a romance between a slug man and his perfectly submissive waifu. said slug repeatedly opines on the sexual advantages of an all female vs. all male army and there's much talk of breeding
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May 16, 2020 04:46
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I hold only Disdain for Herbert; his Works; and his Family.
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May 16, 2020 04:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the entire fourth book is a romance between a slug man and his perfectly submissive waifu. said slug repeatedly opines on the sexual advantages of an all female vs. all male army and there's much talk of breeding Did it take the gor guy a few books to get to the bondage poo poo, or was that the point from the beginning?
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May 16, 2020 05:01
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Oh come on, it can’t be
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May 16, 2020 05:04
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Did it take the gor guy a few books to get to the bondage poo poo, or was that the point from the beginning? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 05:09 on May 16, 2020 |
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May 16, 2020 05:06
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the entire fourth book is a romance between a slug man and his perfectly submissive waifu. said slug repeatedly opines on the sexual advantages of an all female vs. all male army and there's much talk of breeding I defend sci-fi/fantasy a lot, but I couldn't even make it 2 chapters in to the third Dune book. Why torture yourself? I need some non-genre poo poo to read for a while. Could you and Mel please suggest some enjoyable reads? I'm asking this earnestly.
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May 16, 2020 05:14
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TheAardvark posted:I defend sci-fi/fantasy a lot, but I couldn't even make it 2 chapters in to the third Dune book. Why torture yourself? self-flagellation leaves marks
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May 16, 2020 05:19
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chernobyl kinsman posted:there is no adventure. nothing happens. every novel is 98% dialogue. the space opera framing is a trick to get you to listen to herbert's thoughts about leadership and terrestrial ecosystems. fair point TheAardvark posted:I defend sci-fi/fantasy a lot, but I couldn't even make it 2 chapters in to the third Dune book. Why torture yourself? what are you in the mood for
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May 16, 2020 07:51
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Mel Mudkiper posted:what are you in the mood for I read We Have Always Lived In The Castle recently and absolutely loved it. My favorite movies are all psychological thrillers. I realize that's a book genre, but but when I have read books called that it has always been really infantile. I guess I would like a 'mystery', in only the vaguest terms.
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May 16, 2020 08:04
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TheAardvark posted:I read We Have Always Lived In The Castle recently and absolutely loved it. If you haven't read Du Maurier's Rebecca go do that immediately
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May 16, 2020 21:56
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TheAardvark posted:I read We Have Always Lived In The Castle recently and absolutely loved it. I've been currently reflecting on Jose Saramargos psuedo noirs so give them a try The Double and All the Names
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May 16, 2020 22:14
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Sham bam bamina! posted:It's in the first couple of books but only as an incidental detail, if I correctly recall the podcast episodes I've heard about them. They're mostly just a Burroughs pastiche. Confession time. I've read the first couple of Gor books. While the whole bondage/slave girl thing is there from the beginning, it not until the fourth book that it really became really prominent (I remember cringing at parts of that book). Even fans of the series have complained that in the later books Norman spends too much time dwelling on the care of slave girls and less on the action and narrative. In their defense I would say that the first two books are okay, and I actually enjoyed the third book. That's probably because Norman spends more time on the sci-fi / action part then on the whole bondage thing.
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