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Earthsea might be my next book then. i keep meaning to read some of her books and i grab my most of my choices from this thread cause im lazy and it hasnt done me wrong yet reading canticle for leibowitz right now, only at part 2 but its definitely interesting DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Smythe posted:i didnt see this mfkers through to completion but it was one of the best gbs threads of all time. thnx i think it's still going in bss also the earthsea books are technically young adult novels, i first read them in junior high. they're still very good but you know, context if you want real literature from leguin then start with the left hand of darkness or something also, i read somewhere that there was a tv movie made by some pbs affiliate of leguin's the lathe of heaven, and then later some cable channel did another one. has anybody seen either of them and are they any good?
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Nov 28, 2013 11:51
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ya im cool with YA books so long as theyre well written. ive been reading lots of real literature recently anyway and could do some lighter reading
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Nov 28, 2013 12:18
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on reflection, the hunt for red october (the film) has almost everything i look for in hard science fiction * a complete, functional universe with its own rules, jargon etc. * everything's explained, but never dumbed down. the audience has to pay attention * highly competent characters * plausible technology * the technology's capabilities/limitations drive much of the action all this plus it's a properly tense thriller with a great story and fun character moments and memorable dialogue nothing not to like
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Nov 28, 2013 13:12
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qntm posted:nothing not to like the accents but that is a minor complaint, i like it too.
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Nov 28, 2013 22:51
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i finally saw pacific rim. it was really dumb even for a robots vs aliens movie. too much top gun drama and not enough robots vs aliens.
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Nov 29, 2013 00:23
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Shaggar posted:i finally saw pacific rim. it was really dumb even for a robots vs aliens movie. too much top gun drama and not enough robots vs aliens. 
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Nov 29, 2013 00:26
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Shaggar posted:i finally saw pacific rim. it was really dumb even for a robots vs aliens movie. too much top gun drama and not enough robots vs aliens. lets drift shaggar. wanna get inside ur head
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Nov 29, 2013 00:27
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Goddamn why did I wait so long to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project!? Awesome 70s scifi with the era's usual ambiguous good/bad ending. Don't think I've seen an earlier film deal with a Singularity event.
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Nov 29, 2013 02:55
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Shaggar posted:i finally saw pacific rim. it was really dumb even for a robots vs aliens movie. too much top gun drama and not enough robots vs aliens. lol you say this and yet don't you like transformers which is wayyyyy deficient on cool robot rear end kicking action and instead has way too much american roo rah let's fellate the marines also stupid fuzzy head kid blah blah blah i agree pacific rim needed a bit more action but it was still fun 
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Nov 29, 2013 03:08
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the "drift" thing was gay as hell + dumb as poo poo IMO
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Nov 29, 2013 03:10
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CamH posted:the "drift" thing was gay as hell + dumb as poo poo IMO who the gently caress cares when you had loving HUGE ROBOTS FIGHTING loving HUGE ALIENS
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Nov 29, 2013 04:36
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what are they going to combine next? sharks and a tornado?
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Nov 29, 2013 04:53
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Sniep posted:what are they going to combine next? unironic like dat movie
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Nov 29, 2013 07:01
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i ahve had it with these monkey fighting sharks in this monday to friday tornado! - bruce willis
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Nov 29, 2013 07:05
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CamH posted:the "drift" thing was gay as hell + dumb as poo poo IMO del toro is a loving goony sperglord
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Nov 29, 2013 07:10
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did somebody say PACIFIC RIM?
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Nov 29, 2013 07:24
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it's bad imo
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Nov 29, 2013 07:25
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Amethyst posted:did somebody say PACIFIC RIM? 
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Nov 29, 2013 07:26
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i also did not really like pacific rim
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Nov 29, 2013 07:49
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just watched the die hard episode of almost human it's a decent show i guess but i feel like they're just writing generic cop story scripts and then doing find/replace on them to insert references to future tech. nothing i've seen so far really feels like the future in the sense that it's some sort of plot that could only happen based on the implications of some technology. meh i'll keep watching; the interaction between robocop dredd and i,robot is entertaining enough
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Nov 29, 2013 08:11
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Amethyst posted:did somebody say PACIFIC RIM? one of my fav movies!!
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Nov 29, 2013 08:28
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i wpuld be harder on almost human but the acting is better than fringe at this point and the latter was also pretty procedural by episode 4
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Nov 29, 2013 08:28
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Goddamn why did I wait so long to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project!? Awesome 70s scifi with the era's usual ambiguous good/bad ending. Don't think I've seen an earlier film deal with a Singularity event. i liked ur space vampire movie u had me watch last time so ima watch this one too. also totally blind
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Nov 29, 2013 08:29
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Smythe posted:i liked ur space vampire movie u had me watch last time so ima watch this one too. also totally blind the boob and exploding vampire count in this one is noticably lower, if you are a young you may find it somewhat slow and dry going.
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Nov 29, 2013 13:18
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im nearly 30, balding, and boring. plodding is my middle name
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Nov 29, 2013 19:39
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Smythe posted:im nearly 30, balding, and boring. plodding is my middle name I hit 40 last Saturday, so youre still a young in my book. Anyway, trip report pls.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:41
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ive been ruined by modern life im 32 and i cant watch tarkovsky movies without wanting to pull out my phone and gently caress around with it 
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Nov 29, 2013 19:49
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Goddamn why did I wait so long to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project!? Awesome 70s scifi with the era's usual ambiguous good/bad ending. Don't think I've seen an earlier film deal with a Singularity event. i remember reading the book when i was young and being unable to find the movie in any of the rental stores first book owns second book is really hosed up and weird third book is slightly less hosed up
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I used a 'If you liked that...' type site to see what else I might not have seen from the 70s apocalyptic scifi genre, it threw up 'The Martian Chronicles 1980';  @ the first line of the synopsisquote:Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them. welp, gotta see that at least 
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Actually, this 'Virus / Day of Resurrection' sounds like it might be of interest; http://blackholereviews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/virus-1980-whoops-apocalypse.html
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Nov 29, 2013 23:15
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I used a 'If you liked that...' type site to see what else I might not have seen from the 70s apocalyptic scifi genre, it threw up 'The Martian Chronicles 1980'; that's a pretty accurate summary of one of the original bradbury stories yeah
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Nov 29, 2013 23:30
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haveblue posted:that's a pretty accurate summary of one of the original bradbury stories yeah I haven't read the books, but I suspect Bradbury made it sound less like they show up like sexy porno plumbers at the Mars habitat door
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Nov 29, 2013 23:34
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with thermin music instead of the wa-wa guitar
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Nov 30, 2013 01:06
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somebody order an earth pizza? extra earth sausage?
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Nov 30, 2013 03:00
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imma get some dirt kebab
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Nov 30, 2013 03:04
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seriously though the book is fantastic and that's like one story out of at least two dozen the last one always gives me chills
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Nov 30, 2013 03:36
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Smythe posted:i liked ur space vampire movie u had me watch last time so ima watch this one too. also totally blind i did this and i have returned satisfied. it was pretty chilling and humanity's willingness to obey the machines and turn on their fellows to ensure their own immediate survival is really deep and scary. the 1970s blinky lights and printouts computer engaged in cybernetic voyeurism is extremely yospos, though
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General Zod and his cohorts are banished to the  
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big black cohorts
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