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Good to know. There's also a bunch of Michael Crichton on there, but it's the Lost World and other stuff that isn't Jurassic Park.
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Sep 18, 2015 15:32
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The Deleter posted:The cafeteria at work has a small bookshelf where people leave books they've read. I wandered over to it today and found, to my surprise, a copy of Elminster. Ed Greenwood wrote a story about a viking dude leading a slave revolt against dark elves, and somehow managed to make it incredibly boring. R.A. Salvatore wouldn't have hosed up that premise, no sir. Forums Terrorist posted:alternatively perhaps kids should be encouraged to state the relative merits of their proposed course of action so people get why doing what they want would be better Provided they also get told they are trash for trying to do so, for added realism. :iamafag:
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Sep 18, 2015 16:11
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The Deleter posted:Good to know. I heard the Andromeda Strain was good. Never read it myself.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:39
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Helical Nightmares posted:I heard the Andromeda Strain was good. Never read it myself. I thought Airframe was pretty good.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:43
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Helical Nightmares posted:I heard the Andromeda Strain was good. Never read it myself. Andromeda Strain is a legit great late 60s sci-fi novel. I really like Great Train Robbery as well, it's a Victorian England heist book and it's a lot of fun. It also got made into a movie starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland!
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Andromeda Strain is a legit great late 60s sci-fi novel. Great Train Robbery is really fun, both the movie and the novel! I've also got a soft spot for The Terminal Man, in part because of how dated it is.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:35
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I also recommend Eaters of the Dead, the Crichton novel on which The 13th Warrior was based.
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Simian_Prime posted:I also recommend Eaters of the Dead, the Crichton novel on which The 13th Warrior was based. Eaters of the Dead is real good. It's creepy and funny and narrated by a haughty exiled Muslim stuck in with some Viking/Rus dudes in a historical fiction/sci-fi retelling of Beowulf. It rules.
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FishFood posted:Eaters of the Dead is real good. It's creepy and funny and narrated by a haughty exiled Muslim stuck in with some Viking/Rus dudes in a historical fiction/sci-fi retelling of Beowulf. It rules. The narrator is also based on a real historical figure who gave us some of the earliest records on vikings.
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Sep 18, 2015 21:19
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Rand Brittain posted:It can't possibly be worse than the last few spellfire novels.
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NorgLyle posted:Wait they wrote sequels to Spellfire? Really bad ones, yes. Here, I will summarize: quote:RANDOM B-LIST VILLAIN FROM <INSERT EVIL ORGANIZATION 1>: "I must possess the power of spellfire! <Random D-List Villain>, capture Shandril Shessair and bring her to me!" This goes on more or less uninterrupted for two whole books until eventually it doesn't work and Shandril is the one who explodes, whereupon Mystra resurrects her as yet another unique magical being, because Mystra is a big believer in conserving intellectual property, so she's at least got one up on DC Comics. (There's a continuing unintentional thing where Mystra gives people some kind of wondrous magical blessing, which results in them living the life of a hunted animal and then dying miserably when their luck gives out, because no blessing is good enough to hold out forever against the Realms' endless supply of card-carrying villains. See Secrets of the Magister for a few dozen more examples.)
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Sep 19, 2015 01:26
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There was a Forgotten Realms book about a swashbuckling thief/mage type, set in Ravens Bluff, that I remember enjoying even after leaving beyond the rest the licensed books.
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Sep 19, 2015 02:24
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Ed Greenwood, he loves cat houses (and I don't think he meant feline buildings).
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FastestGunAlive posted:There was a Forgotten Realms book about a swashbuckling thief/mage type, set in Ravens Bluff, that I remember enjoying even after leaving beyond the rest the licensed books. I think the Forgotten Realms book I liked the most was the one where a bard in the Moonsea teamed up with a swordsman from Kara-Tur to find some magic cloth that was stolen from the latter's family.
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Best thing to do with a Forgotten Realms novel was the author bio that Paul Park wrote for his pseudonym:quote:Home-schooled in Kansas by Chinese missionaries, Paulina Claiborne has eschewed all subsequent education. Between the prison terms that punctuate her life, she has worked as a cook, a hairdresser, a life coach, a toxicologist, a freelance letter-opener, and a private surgeon. She has won several prestigious literary awards, including the Warden’s Special Prize for Model Servitude. She enjoys quilt making, knife fighting, and alcohol. For the past few years she has had no fixed address.
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Sep 19, 2015 11:41
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Rand Brittain posted:Really bad ones, yes. Here, I will summarize: I like to imagine Mystra is pretty bored with being a goddess and this is how she makes her equivalent of TV.
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Sep 19, 2015 14:18
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:I like to imagine Mystra is pretty bored with being a goddess and this is how she makes her equivalent of TV. 
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Sep 19, 2015 14:53
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Serf posted:As with all things Forgotten Realms, it should be thrown away ASAP We are no longer friends. 
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Sep 19, 2015 18:25
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Best D&D novel in my opinion(at least of those I've read) is the Dragonlance novel Draconian Measures, followed by the first couple Greyhawk Adventures books, less on their merits as fine literature, and more for them being fun to read(most Forgotten Realms stuff I've read has been dreadfully boring and deserves to be forgotten)
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Sep 19, 2015 21:35
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Rise and Fall of a Dragon King is pretty good.
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Sep 19, 2015 22:52
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Arivia posted:We are no longer friends. I talk a lot of trash, but this has been on my shelf since the day I bought it: 
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Sep 19, 2015 23:02
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My favorite D&D auther was Richard A. Knaack. He wrote the legend of Huma and Kaz the Minotaur. I don't know how he holds up to my recollection, but back when I read books like that, and I read alot of bad Dragonlance books, he stood out
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Sep 19, 2015 23:07
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i think u mean kaz the moenotaur sorry not sorry
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Any time is a good time to talk about Benedict "Kazuhira" McDonnell Miller and his series of increasingly elaborate secret ocean hideouts
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Sep 20, 2015 01:28
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Ningyou posted:i think u mean Would it be correct to be happy that I have no idea how that has any relation to what I used to read.
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Sep 20, 2015 02:17
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Ningyou posted:i think u mean
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Zereth posted:I am so mad that those posters are not in a period-appropriate art style. I'm mad those posters don't have period appropriate characters on them.
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Sep 20, 2015 02:53
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Isn't it supposed to be Paz?
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Yeah, which is a little creepy there Kaz.
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Well, Paz was an older woman only pretending to be a teenager, that makes it better! No it doesn't, Kaz Though MGSV is 9 years later, so she wouldn't be a teenager anymore, at least. Still, didn't she die in Ground Zeroes? (Haven't played MSGV, so maybe they had her somehow survive via plot bullshit) That makes it extra creepy I guess.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Still, didn't she die in Ground Zeroes? (Haven't played MSGV, so maybe they had her somehow survive via plot bullshit) That makes it extra creepy I guess. AND THE POSTERS ARE NOT PERIOD APPROPRIATE *angrily bangs fists on table*
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Zereth posted:She survived by them just kinda blatantly retconning the cutscene where she exploded, and kinda even calling attention to that they were doing that. She's got amnesia and I'm pretty sure she is not aware of the posters.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Ummmm... Way to spoil the poo poo out of a side-story they obviously haven't finished.
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Tulpa posted:Best thing to do with a Forgotten Realms novel was the author bio that Paul Park wrote for his pseudonym: Paul Park wrote Forgotten Realms books?  That's just bizarre...
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Swagger Dagger posted:Way to spoil the poo poo out of a side-story they obviously haven't finished. To be fair, if you walk around the side of the building, she's in a room that doesn't physically exist, and there's the tape in Ground Zeroes where the guy is "yeah to fit the bomb we removed several organs she needs to live, she's got 24 hours max".
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The best part of the whole Paz storyline is the idea of Galvez rocking out on a theremin. But yeah, it would have been rad if they spent a couple thousand more of Konami's bucks to get Haruhiko Mikimoto to draw the posters.
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PublicOpinion posted:To be fair, if you walk around the side of the building, she's in a room that doesn't physically exist, and there's the tape in Ground Zeroes where the guy is "yeah to fit the bomb we removed several organs she needs to live, she's got 24 hours max". also hallucination or no, that entire subplot in tpp feels weird and pandery and creepygratuitous in a way i'm not entirely sure how to articulate other than 'nooooooooooooope'
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Ningyou posted:wellllllllllllllll i will never not be glad i didn't loving listen to the tapes in ground zeroes Arguably, I suppose.
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yeah no i know about The Thing with chico and paz and Ghoul Zorro let's maybe not talk about that bc it's gross
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