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maybe the portlandia jokes only work if youre familiar with portland for example there are actual agrarian communes outside portland. steve jobs was involved in one that grew apples, thats where the name for apple computer came from.
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idk the feminist book store wasnt bad and ive never seen one irl
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kye37wiui2A I like movies with a lot of edge
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Kirk posted:party down community was really good for the first two seasons but this season has been really lacking imo
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alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy owns the culture series black company series red mars trilogy collections of words by & for scrubs cyclonopedia pls quote and expand this list, tia
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is red mars actually good? i thought about picking it up but it seemed like it might end up lovely and meh
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Kirk posted:alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy
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NINbuntu 64 posted:is red mars actually good? i thought about picking it up but it seemed like it might end up lovely and meh
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Kirk posted:alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy
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NoneMoreNegative posted:RM is a bit wordy, but it has an ownage bit of future terrorism involving a space elevator, so pluspoints there.
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GM and BM get really slow and political and boring, RM is p. ownage add rendezvous with rama plus a warning to not ever read the rest of them
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FMguru posted:GM is pretty terrible, but i did like the ending, when a character who had been annoying and unpleasant for the previous 1100 pages suddenly proves his worth. In that he has no empathy and is involved in a cultural war started by his inability to talk to a girl. EDIT: Also he has a nerdname like Wolfgang in "Explorers" Ulf fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Nov 8, 2011 |
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Kirk posted:dune is pro
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Sock on a Fish posted:maybe the portlandia jokes only work if youre familiar with portland my friend's brother lives in portland and says that yeah it's funny because a lot of it is true/makes sense
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Ulf posted:I give up, who's this? Is it Saxifrage? He's the character inserted to give sci fi fans someone to identify with.
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Kirk posted:alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy
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wheel of time is poo poo from what ive heard but if they ever make an abridged version it wont be??
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Cylon Dinner Party posted:old conan books rule ya, been meaning to unbox these and read through them again, so ty for the inspiration   Totally ate this stuff up when I was a kid, even though everything except the R.E.Howard and the deCamp books are p. bad 
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Kirk posted:wheel of time is poo poo from what ive heard but if they ever make an abridged version it wont be?? The new guy they got in to finish the series after Jordan died has loving saved those books. Books 1-5 are good, really peaking at 4/5, then a long slow descent culminating in like book 10 or so where there are like 900 pages to describe what happens in one loving day. Then Jordan dies, Sanderson takes over and everything goes balls to the wall. The last book is going to be nothing but loving epic battles.
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Kirk posted:alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy
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The hyperion "cantos" (god that poo poo is pretentious) does not own. the first book is great, the sequels are boring cliche bullshit with dumb ideas that are super repetitive
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golgo13sf posted:culminating in like book 10 or so where there are like 900 pages to describe what happens in one loving day. thank you that is exactly why I quit wheel of time hyperion 1 and 2 own, 3 and 4 not so much
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go grab book 2, flip through the chapters and see how many end with the sentence "He took another life-preserving milk pac from the case, pulled the heat tab and fed it to the baby. There weren't very many left in the bag, time was running out."
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Kirk posted:alright so where are we sitting with good sci-fi and fantasy thought of a couple more
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Woz My Neg rear end posted:GM and BM get really slow and political and boring, RM is p. ownage years ago i got Rama out of the library, book fukken owned. then i loving bought Rama II  barely got halfway through, it's still sitting on my bookshelf, should have taken it out with the rest of the recycling tonight
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Bad rear end Boutique posted:years ago i got Rama out of the library, book fukken owned. then i loving bought Rama II Read the chapters alternatingly, ie don't read the chapters Clarke didn't write. It makes the book way more enjoyable.
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mr_jim posted:i liked it. yes, yes, a million times yes
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rotor posted:yes, yes, a million times yes *rolls blunt listening to the log lady* yep
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LP97S posted:I'm watching Captains right now and what the hell is with Avery's pants? They're up to right below his nipples. dude is literally Mister Fancy Pants
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rotor posted:dude is literally Mister Fancy Pants hey mister fancypants
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i've started reading leguin for the first time ever, and it's p good. she has a very different authorial voice than i'm used to in sci fi. i dunno if that's because she's a woman or if it's the anthropological perspective, but it's pretty cool. reminds me of mary doria russell, which i'm guessing is because russell probably read a lot of leguin
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