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Putty posted:What the hell was up with Animorphs? Animorphs was weird. Animorphs was cool until the lady and her army of ghostwriters decided she was writing serious fiction instead of kids being animals and that being cool as gently caress. I remember googling the ending of the series and finding out it ends with all of them depressed and destroyed and killing themselves in a final sacrifice against an unstoppable alien menace
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I started reading the Walking Dead novels. They're real bad
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boom boom boom posted:I started reading the Walking Dead novels. drat, what a surprise.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Animorphs was cool until the lady and her army of ghostwriters decided she was writing serious fiction instead of kids being animals and that being cool as gently caress. They don't die though (probably). The final scene is a call-back to a sequence earlier in the series where another character does something similar and snatches a major victory from the jaws of defeat. That last book is a mess. The first two thirds want to be this sombre, gritty examination of soldiers returning to civilian life (as much as a silly action/adventure book for 10 year olds can be - you still get really cheesy chapters where the kids namedrop all the famous people that they've gotten to meet because they saved the world). Then it's "gently caress that depressing poo poo, lets head to space and have cool space adventures" (which they do, mostly off screen). Then it wraps up on a note of cartoonishly grotesque body horror/ultraviolence. It's a crap ending, but a pretty accurate representation of the series as a whole. High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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I keep reading reviews criticizing fantasy and sci fi books for being too white and European and its starting to rub me the wrong way. You could rightly accuse publishers of not promoting work by non-white and non-European authors but faulting the authors themselves is just lazy and misguided. If everyone took that criticism to heart we'd likely just wind up with some half baked characters shoved in to fill a quota and more than a few goofy caricatures. I'd much rather read books written from the perspective of another race, nationality, sex, or whatever by someone in that group rather than a bunch of people who aren't but are trying to imagine really really hard.
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It seems like the solution is to buy and read good sci-fi fantasy books written by non-whites and non-Europenas, and tell people about them and encourage people to buy and read those books. Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a writer is white or not tho. If there's no author picture on the dust cover you just have to guess
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boom boom boom posted:It seems like the solution is to buy and read good sci-fi fantasy books written by non-whites and non-Europenas, and tell people about them and encourage people to buy and read those books. Is it a fantasy novel? It's a white guy.
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Plenty of white women in fantasy.
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Peztopiary posted:Plenty of white women in fantasy. yeah they are the healers
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Is it a fantasy novel? Ursula k Leguin Anne Mccafrey Joan Vinge
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boom boom boom posted:Ursula k Leguin Really, shouldn't poo poo like this be taken care of by the death of the author?
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anilEhilated posted:Nnedi Okorafor Please don't murder authors
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Kill all white authors.
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anilEhilated posted:Nnedi Okorafor I don't think you know what death of the author means.
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The real author of the text is the reader, so fantasy is now even white maler.
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The Death of the Author was an event that occurred in the fall of 1967 when all texts were rendered completely anonymous due to a word virus trojaned into academia by a French mentalhacker
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boom boom boom posted:It seems like the solution is to buy and read good sci-fi fantasy books written by non-whites and non-Europenas, and tell people about them and encourage people to buy and read those books. Have you considered... light novels?
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open new tab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author ctrl-F "Foucault" 1/5 result Close tab Nope, I don't loving care.
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Also I love Patrick Rothfuss so much I started a read-along. Kill me.
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:open new tab ahahahahahahahahahahahaha look at this stupid fucker right here
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Death of the Author is amazing because its a crazy simple concept but 70% of people misinterpret its meaning because they never actually read the six page article or they skimmed wikipedia EDIT: Like Pleasure of the Text is a fundamentally difficult concept to understand. Death of the Author is simple. Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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simple concept wrapped in post-modernist word saladBravestOfTheLamps posted:Also I love Patrick Rothfuss so much I started a read-along. Kill me.
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:simple concept wrapped in post-modernist word salad Barthes wasn't a post-modernist bro
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How are you even meant to pronounce Foucault it's not a word.
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CestMoi posted:How are you even meant to pronounce Foucault it's not a word. "fucko"
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20% off day at the HPB got some good stuff for, like, ten bucks
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:simple concept wrapped in post-modernist word salad Barthes isn't post modernist nor is his writing very difficult to understand, perhaps you're just really stupid?
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boom boom boom posted:20% off day at the HPB got some good stuff for, like, ten bucks
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Yeah, I just read the Wikipedia article in less than 10 minutes. The concept is pretty simple, especially since it's Mel Mudkiper's life motto.
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The_Angry_Turtle posted:open new tab I read this as "Foucault isn't mentioned enough times" and thought that was a pretty good angle
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Franchescanado posted:Yeah, I just read the Wikipedia article in less than 10 minutes. The concept is pretty simple, especially since it's Mel Mudkiper's life motto. I was about to disagree with this and then I realized it was actually kinda true so whelp
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I was about to disagree with this and then I realized it was actually kinda true so whelp Wasn't meant as an insult, just an illustrative point.
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Your intent is unimportant.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Your intent is unimportant. 
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A human heart posted:Barthes isn't post modernist nor is his writing very difficult to understand, perhaps you're just really stupid? not difficult to understand but lets be real here critical theory is pointless
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it angers ppl on the internet so it's not pointless.
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tbf there is literally (archaic meaning) nothing on the Internet that someone somewhere won't get angry about.
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Umberto Eco, writer and philosopher, is dead at the age of 84. Eco leaves behind a family, and a legacy of novels, children's books, literary criticism, and philosophical works. e: Oh, news already broke in the serious thread BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Feb 20, 2016 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Umberto Eco, writer and philosopher, is dead at the age of 84. Eco leaves behind a family, and a legacy of novels, children's books, literary criticism, and philosophical works. Old news by now I guess but I'm still bummed. I've only read The Name of the Rose so far, but that book is fantastic enough on its own, let alone his huge and broad catalogue of work.
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My favorite's The Island of the Day Before.
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