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Nov 1, 2013 16:12
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Al! posted:im not sure how talking animals isnt fantasy unless youre schitzophrenic all fiction is fantasy all fantasy is fiction
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Nov 1, 2013 16:12
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:all fiction is fantasy i see youre using the if it isnt some half baked medieval tolkien ripoff it isnt fantasy definition
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Nov 1, 2013 16:13
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:
redwall: the proof of concept that showed you can write a book series mostly about food. grrm for children.
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Nov 1, 2013 16:13
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Al! posted:i see youre using the if it isnt some half baked medieval tolkien ripoff it isnt fantasy definition eh not really, i just dont like the definition of fantasy being "has an element or two thats unrealistic"
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Nov 1, 2013 16:15
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:eh not really, i just dont like the definition of fantasy being "has an element or two thats unrealistic" lol
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Nov 1, 2013 16:18
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the unrealistic part is when members of the rabbit civilization interact with a seagull hth
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Nov 1, 2013 16:19
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:
I remember picking that book out in the elementary school library because it looked neat and having no idea what was going on when I tried reading it. I looked up the summary just now and still have no idea what the gently caress. Seems like a really convoluted plot with a ton of characters for something that has talking animals, but maybe its just because I haven't read any of the series.
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Nov 1, 2013 16:19
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:I remember picking that book out in the elementary school library because it looked neat and having no idea what was going on when I tried reading it. I looked up the summary just now and still have no idea what the gently caress. Seems like a really convoluted plot with a ton of characters for something that has talking animals, but maybe its just because I haven't read any of the series. i wasnt exaggerating when i implied it was got for kids. tons of food (it has official loving cookbooks) and characters and like 10 plots at once
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Nov 1, 2013 16:21
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just as long as it's not shelved in the fantasy section OR I WILL SCREAM
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Nov 1, 2013 16:23
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:I remember picking that book out in the elementary school library because it looked neat and having no idea what was going on when I tried reading it. I looked up the summary just now and still have no idea what the gently caress. Seems like a really convoluted plot with a ton of characters for something that has talking animals, but maybe its just because I haven't read any of the series. iirc that one is late in the series and the early ones don't have that problem, he just fell into the usual genre trap of a long-running series being smothered by its overgrown mythology loved them when I was a kid, saw him at a live reading once e: drat there are a lot more of those books than I remembered
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Nov 1, 2013 16:26
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well he's dead now so there
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Nov 1, 2013 16:29
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you can disregard the left hand side of that flow chart
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Nov 1, 2013 16:29
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Levar Burton also has the new Reading Rainbow going so I doubt he's hurting for money.
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Nov 1, 2013 16:34
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Anything that actually suggests you read the Silmarillion as a "fantasy 102" book is a garbage flowchart. Really no one should read it, its a novel length appendix. Thanks Christopher for giving us all the stuff that your dad knew better than to include when actually setting about the task of telling a story.
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Nov 1, 2013 16:37
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reading the silmarillion is like reading the bible cover to cover
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Nov 1, 2013 16:38
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reminder dont show your kids watership down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5I9izys2ek
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Nov 1, 2013 16:42
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:reminder dont show your kids watership down jesus christ how horrifying marilyn manson should never be listened to
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Nov 1, 2013 17:03
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was reading the wikipedia entry for the giver and found out thisquote:A film is being adapted which was given the green light in December 2012. Jeff Bridges is set to play The Giver[19] and Brenton Thwaites will play Jonas, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgård, and Taylor Swift will also appear in the film. this actually might not be bad
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Nov 1, 2013 17:32
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hubris.height posted:was reading the wikipedia entry for the giver
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Nov 1, 2013 18:07
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:
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Nov 1, 2013 18:25
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haveblue posted:it's not zany like the guide, it should feel more sardonic like banks oh god the sequels stet stet stet rish stet rish stet rish rish stet rish its a neat setting but christ almighty niven cannot write for poo poo also im more offended by sword of truth being on that chart than wot
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Nov 1, 2013 18:35
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hubris.height posted:altered carbon is currently in my maybelist. in the 'should prolly read' list are the road, the dispossessed, handmaid's tale, book of the new sun, and snow crash. the rest of the poo poo i wanna read is non-fuction i just finished handmaid's tale on the recommendation of the thread. it was really good as a thought experiment but atwood never seems to make anything exciting. i read oryx and crake before and had the same reaction after finishing. i still advise reading it but dont expect to be entertained by it
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Nov 1, 2013 19:47
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DiggityDoink posted:i just finished handmaid's tale on the recommendation of the thread. it was really good as a thought experiment but atwood never seems to make anything exciting. oh and a ninja attack
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Nov 1, 2013 20:05
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ahahaha i thought that was based on his father's life tho at any rate it's the only comic to win a pulitzer YOU HEAR ME GIRLFRIEND COMICS ARE TOO AN ADULT PASSTIME
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Nov 1, 2013 20:06
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Gus Hobbleton posted:oh god the sequels niven's smoke ring trilogy is p dece and doesnt really feature a lot of fuckin
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Nov 1, 2013 20:08
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Dr. Mint posted:jadzazeeeeya dax was just boring she was hot they just gave her terrible hair all of the time
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Nov 1, 2013 20:12
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FMguru posted:agreed. handmaids tale really could have benefited from some explosions, maybe a chase through a crowded metropolis on flying motorcycles, and a wisecracking alien or maybe robot sidekick. yup cause thats totally what i said
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Nov 1, 2013 20:25
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DiggityDoink posted:yup cause thats totally what i said e: also add in wookies and jedis
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Nov 1, 2013 20:37
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FMguru posted:then lets hear your ideas about how add excitement to handmaids tail. maybe the main character has an identical twin she doesnt know about who is also a serial killer and the main character has until midnight before her twin kills again? would that make it exciting enough for you?
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Nov 1, 2013 20:52
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Sham bam bamina! posted:strawmanning you bitchbaby mmmmmmmmods
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Nov 1, 2013 21:17
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FMguru posted:then lets hear your ideas about how add excitement to handmaids tail. maybe the main character has an identical twin she doesnt know about who is also a serial killer and the main character has until midnight before her twin kills again? would that make it exciting enough for you? holy poo poo you sure are mad about a book i said was really good
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Nov 1, 2013 21:21
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i'm an uncultured peon so i never actually read her work but margarett atwood has always come off to me as an unbearably stuck up old person whos cripplingly afraid of the future, not exactly what u want in a sci-fi writter
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Nov 1, 2013 21:36
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DiggityDoink posted:holy poo poo you sure are mad about a book i said was really good things are eithwr perfect or absolute poo poo there is no such thing as minor or constructive criticism
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Nov 1, 2013 21:45
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Gus Hobbleton posted:things are eithwr perfect or absolute poo poo a firm long poop w/o straining, one wipe only, no bowl residue hmm seems like myth busted
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Nov 1, 2013 21:58
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hubris.height posted:altered carbon my envoy training
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Nov 1, 2013 22:05
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altered carbon is wish fulfillment junk
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Nov 1, 2013 22:06
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jadzeeya or w.e had gr8 big boobs <3 i like to look at em. a lot. :-)
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Nov 1, 2013 22:39
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hubris.height posted:yeah if i didn't have so much free time i would've used the credit on something i knew would be good but i figured two long rear end books for literally free to pass time listening seems good i'd never heard of it but my friend is listening to it and was telling me that it was good. everything he said about it made it sound awful. his taste in books is pretty suspect in general so i'd say no he snuck into the ender's game movie after seeing gravity last night and was astonished to discover that ender's game was very bad!
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Nov 1, 2013 22:55
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I found Altered Carbon + Sequels reminded me a lot of Peter F Hamilton stuff
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