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outlier posted:Looks like revisionist Tolkien is a genre in Russia. It's a genre in America too. It's called dark fantasy. (As opposed to high, low, tapestry, etc. fantasy, why the gently caress do I remember this poo poo and not anything of value or worth anymore.)
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I just finished The Girl on the Train and while it certainly wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, I'm gobsmacked that it was apparently the fastest-selling hardcover adult novel of all time when it was released. How...does that even happen?
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food court bailiff posted:I just finished The Girl on the Train and while it certainly wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, I'm gobsmacked that it was apparently the fastest-selling hardcover adult novel of all time when it was released. How...does that even happen? Probably got a huge boost from the film version of Gone Girl which came out only a little bit before
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food court bailiff posted:I just finished The Girl on the Train and while it certainly wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, I'm gobsmacked that it was apparently the fastest-selling hardcover adult novel of all time when it was released. How...does that even happen? Marketing.
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food court bailiff posted:I just finished The Girl on the Train and while it certainly wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, I'm gobsmacked that it was apparently the fastest-selling hardcover adult novel of all time when it was released. How...does that even happen? Was it? I've listened to http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2016/11/27/069-the-girl-on-the-train/, haven't read the book (or seen ads for it), but then when I spoke with some people, the conversation would go towards "I've read this book about... well, this girl on a train" and now it makes me even curiouser and curiouser.
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food court bailiff posted:I just finished The Girl on the Train and while it certainly wasn't the worst thing I've ever read, I'm gobsmacked that it was apparently the fastest-selling hardcover adult novel of all time when it was released. How...does that even happen?
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# ? Jun 17, 2017 07:58 |
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So, someone on another forum has been doing a read-through of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by William Lind, a writer for various far-right sources and former aide to Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/coiler-reads-victoria-a-novel-of-fourth-generation-what-the.360750/ The plot summery is a doozy. quote:When Captain John Rumford, USMC, stands up for the dead Marines of Iwo Jima against the forces of political correctness that have invaded his beloved Corps, he is promptly cashiered for his trouble. But upon his return to his native Maine, he discovers that even in the countryside, there is no escaping the political correctness that has spread throughout the United States of America. And when what begins as a small effort by some former Marines to help fellow Christians in Boston free themselves from the plague of crime in their neighborhoods turns into a larger resistance movement, Captain Rumford unexpectedly finds himself leading his fellow revolutionaries into combat against an ideological enemy that takes many different forms. It sounds bad but nothing worse then your generic right-wing post-apocalyptic fantasy. Sadly, it is. Some random examples: The book begins with our heroes burning a Episcopal bishop at the stake, because she;s a woman, and women can't be bishops, and any woman claiming to be one is therefore a heretic. Therefore she deserves to die. The rest of the book is written in a flashback explaining how Our Hero led up to this utopia. quote:“Sadly, this great culture of ours, Western culture, is under attack,” the professor replied. “The universities today are active and conscious agents in its destruction. Indeed, they have generated theories as to why Western culture should be destroyed. Of course, they aren’t alone. The most powerful single force in America now is the entertainment industry, and it is also an agent of cultural destruction. Many of the politicians play the game too. The usual code-words are ‘racism, sexism, and homophobia.’ When you hear them, you’re hearing the worms gnawing at the foundation.” quote:About a week later I got a letter. It was from my old company Gunnery Sergeant, a black fellow and a good Marine. He was also a husband and father—rare among black males by the 21st century—and a Christian. He wrote to ask for my help. quote:“They—you—always end up getting sucked in to the Republican Party,” Mr. Kraft continued. “It holds the keys to the club. And it sold us out long ago. Sure, it tells us what we want to hear, but it snickers and winks the whole time it’s talking. The only people it delivers for are those on Wall Street and in the country clubs.” quote:As our culture began to fall apart, in the 1960s, the gays started “coming out.” This broke the old rule of “Don’t frighten the horses,” which had allowed mutual toleration. The rule meant that they were not open about their orientation, and we pretended not to notice it. quote:“Okay, guys, I’ve got just one question: how can you get me out of this one?” Hokem opened. quote:The challenge, and our opportunity, came in the early summer of 2021. The Democrats were back in power in Washington, and their slogan was “A Rainbow Over America.” For Maine, that translated into an announcement on June 22 by “Ms.” Lateesha Umbonga LaDrek, the Secretary of HUD, that her department had purchased two large apartment clusters in Bangor. The current rent-paying residents would be moved out, and 350 black federal prison parolees from out of state would be moved in. LaDrek said the purpose of this action was “to offer oppressed people of color a second chance by letting them serve as ambassadors of diversity to the people of Bangor, who were imprisoned in an all-white ghetto.” quote:Meanwhile, the 250 black parolees who were to move into Bangor had been stuck in a couple of motels near Worcester, Massachusetts, waiting for the federal troops to clear their way in. The Justice Department’s lawyers had determined that, since they had been paroled, they could not be kept under guard... quote:
quote:By the third decade of the 21st century, the dissolution of the United States had reached the point where each year brought a new crisis. The crisis of 2023 began with the Persell Amendment to the Clean Air Act, a measure intended to prevent the smoking of tobacco.The government and the “health industry” that lived off the government whooped it up that tobacco smoke was second only to Zyklon B as the worst thing you could inhale.. Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 17:59 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Nckdictator posted:So, someone on another forum has been doing a read-through of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by William Lind, a writer for various far-right sources and former aide to Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart, with whom he wrote a book. Gary "The best chance to stop Reagan" Hart co-wrote this book?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Gary "The best chance to stop Reagan" Hart co-wrote this book? Sorry, I wasn't clear on that. The author of this book co-wrote a nonfiction book on military policy with Gary Hart. http://articles.latimes.com/1986-04-20/books/bk-940_1_gary-hart
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quote:As usual, Maine had elected a liberal Governor The gently caress? Has this fuckwit even seen any news coming out of Maine in the last 6 years?
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# ? Jul 11, 2017 01:26 |
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God, it just keeps going. Every time you think "this must be the worst thing in this book" it finds some new way to be terrible.
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# ? Jul 11, 2017 05:37 |
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Apparently the guy is also a foamer.quote:Lind has authored and co-authored (with Paul Weyrich) a number of monographs on behalf of the Free Congress Foundation attempting to persuade American Conservatives to support government funding for mass transit programs, especially rail transit, the pair have also written about "cultural Marxism" as being an organized conspiracy against the traditional Christian values of America.[9] He was Associate Publisher of a quarterly magazine called The New Electric Railway Journal from its launch in 1988 until 1996,[10] and starting in January 1994 he also co-hosted a monthly program about light rail on the National Empowerment Television network; the program used the same name as the magazine.[11]
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# ? Jul 11, 2017 06:23 |
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lol it's like someone took the TV show 'Decker' completely at face value Mr President our this country is under attack by terrorists both domestic and foreign
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol it's like someone took the TV show 'Decker' completely at face value Uh, did I miss something or was Ted Danson's sitcom actually really right-wing?
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That's Becker. Decker is an adult swim show starring one half of Tim and Eric as basically Steven Segal.
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The revolutionary fervor against african americans
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Dreqqus posted:That's Becker. Decker is an adult swim show starring one half of Tim and Eric as basically Steven Segal. Decker is a really weird show because while Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington make the show there's also this whole meta layer to it where they are actually playing characters named Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington who are producing the show you're watching.
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hackbunny posted:The revolutionary fervor against african americans You can tell that this guy really thinks that, too. That it's somehow unusual for a black male to support his family. I bet he doesn't know a single actual person of color.
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Domus posted:You can tell that this guy really thinks that, too. That it's somehow unusual for a black male to support his family. I bet he doesn't know a single actual person of color. I bet he as at least one Black Friend, So I Can't Be Racist. I'd bet he also refers to this friend as One Of The Good Ones.
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I just got to the part in the read through where "the good black people" go and lynch a bunch of 'orcs'. I'm loving speechless.quote:On July 27, 2027, the blacks of Newark, New Jersey rose against their oppressors and took over the city. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/coiler-reads-victoria-a-novel-of-fourth-generation-what-the.360750/page-31#post-19565412 Also, guess who published the book? Theodore "Vox 'huge rear end in a top hat' Day" Beale.
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Nckdictator posted:
Well that loving figures.
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# ? Jul 12, 2017 05:07 |
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Mods change my name to The Honorable Snidely Hokem TIA. ... my god what an amazing trash-fire. Thank you for that!
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# ? Jul 12, 2017 07:36 |
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I saw the title, took out my "Reactionary Racist Tropes" bingo card and it was almost full even before we got to Tolkien, Czar Putin and the... Orcs. Thanks for posting that, got a good laugh out of it.
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The_White_Crane posted:Mods change my name to The Honorable Snidely Hokem TIA. Yours is better but I guess I'll have to take Lateesha Umbonga La'Drek. quote:He said the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party was the difference between Madonna and Donald Trump. This was eerily prescient though.
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Nckdictator posted:So, someone on another forum has been doing a read-through of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War by William Lind, a writer for various far-right sources and former aide to Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart. You know, sometimes I idly wonder what it'd be like to write something like this but with the opposite political slant. Our protagonists are a mixed-race lesbian couple with a few adopted children trying to make sure they'll live in a tolerant world where they won't have to struggle against prejudice. But they're beset on all sides, harassed by racists who are inflamed by nonwhite women doing anything at all, and persecuted by a theocratic government who wants to put them into re-education camps until they come out straight. And then I realise why I wouldn't want to write anything like that, because that poo poo hits too close to home and would just be depressing.
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Perestroika posted:You know, sometimes I idly wonder what it'd be like to write something like this but with the opposite political slant. Our protagonists are a mixed-race lesbian couple with a few adopted children trying to make sure they'll live in a tolerant world where they won't have to struggle against prejudice. But they're beset on all sides, harassed by racists who are inflamed by nonwhite women doing anything at all, and persecuted by a theocratic government who wants to put them into re-education camps until they come out straight. Well, that's almost (in the broadest terms) The Handmaid's Tale, isn't it?
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Yes, it's called America, 2017. Enjoy your stay.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Apparently the guy is also a foamer. Putting more money into rail infrastructure is actually his least insane belief. (I wonder if he realizes his alt-right utopia is basically just a white ISIS?)
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Holy poo poo that's pretty much The Turner Diaries 2
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# ? Jul 13, 2017 01:02 |
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That book is vile in a completely unsurprising way, but I have to laugh at the idea of Maine having a super liberal government, and Bangor being an all-white Aryan sanctuary. Has this douchebag ever actually been to Maine?
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"All those northeastern states are liberal, and Maine is the most northeast of them all, so it must be the most liberal!"
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After such a disturbing/hilarious book this almost feels trite but god drat, I my wife and I tried to power through the audio book of "Truly Madly Guilty" and it was incredibly bad. I mean, it was so offensively bad that we listened to strange talk radio for background noise rather than letting it play on a long drive. I looked up the ending because the entire. goddamn. book. is one long cocktease about ~~the barbecue~~ that all these horribly unlikable people regretted going to so much. They'd all be whining about THE BARBECUE and how they wished they wouldn't have gone, or said this, or done that, and then it cuts back to THE DAY OF the BBQ and tells you thirty more seconds of banal nothingness, all while dancing around the only thing that seems to be the slightest bit interesting in these characters' lives. It was so awful. I think every other chapter literally ended with the words "the barbecue".
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Cradle to the Grape posted:That book is vile in a completely unsurprising way, but I have to laugh at the idea of Maine having a super liberal government, and Bangor being an all-white Aryan sanctuary. Has this douchebag ever actually been to Maine? to be fair, all the monsters would tend to make the government a bit conservative
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quote:The flow of yen also brought the federal army new recruits, mostly black gang members from the inner city, immigrants straight off the banana boat, and women. The gangs demanded they be accepted whole and designated as military units, with names like the Bad Boyz Battalion and the West Philly Skullsuckers, on the grounds that “forcing them into a white male structure would deny their unique cultural richness.” The result was units that spread drugs and mayhem throughout the federal army but ran as soon as someone shot at them. The immigrant outfits had Spanish as the language of command, and their officers would do anything for a bribe and nothing without one. The all-female infantry battalions were issued cardboard penises so they could take a leak in the field without wetting their drawers. quote:But that battle was never fought. The Texan invasion gave the Indian population in southern Mexico the opportunity for which it had long waited. On April 25, with the fall of Monterrey, Indian rebels in the Yucatan proclaimed the rebirth of the Mayan Empire at Chichen-Itza. Nahuatl-speaking Indians, the remains of the Aztecs, announced the rebirth of their kingdom in Tenochtitlan three days later. Indian columns, some led by feather-clad priests and Jaguar warriors and others reciting the Popul Vu, marched on Mexico City. The Texans pinned down the Mexican Army, so there was nothing to stop them. Mexico City fell on May 21. On the 23rd, an Aztec high priest cut the beating heart from Mr. Ambassador Zimmerman and offered it to the Hummingbird Wizard atop the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan. quote:...President Warner noted that the naval blockade would be difficult politically, because of probable Russian reaction. Otherwise, he seemed ready to approve the plan. But his Secretary of Defense wanted to say something. quote:When I stuck my head into Ross’s CP, which was a single command version of the LAV, I was almost impaled by a German spiked helmet coming out. quote:We marched all three probable-Deltas down to the rack room. I’m not sure they believed we really had a rack until they saw it. When they did, they looked rather grim. “Perhaps you’ve heard of the Retroculture movement?” I inquired gently. “We find it has wide potential application.” quote:I picked up the sat phone and called John Kelly again to let him know the cavalry was coming. It would be close, but we had a chance. Like last time, it rang and rang. Finally, I heard a click. I can't imagine why not even Baen would publish this masterpiece of literature. Also, that author gets around, here he is as an aide to Gary Hart And with some guy Nckdictator has a new favorite as of 18:39 on Jul 14, 2017 |
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quote:The all-female infantry battalions were issued cardboard penises so they could take a leak in the field without wetting their drawers. Hahahahahaha okay this bit is amazing.
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food court bailiff posted:After such a disturbing/hilarious book this almost feels trite but god drat, I my wife and I tried to power through the audio book of "Truly Madly Guilty" and it was incredibly bad. I mean, it was so offensively bad that we listened to strange talk radio for background noise rather than letting it play on a long drive. I looked up the ending because the entire. goddamn. book. is one long cocktease about ~~the barbecue~~ that all these horribly unlikable people regretted going to so much. They'd all be whining about THE BARBECUE and how they wished they wouldn't have gone, or said this, or done that, and then it cuts back to THE DAY OF the BBQ and tells you thirty more seconds of banal nothingness, all while dancing around the only thing that seems to be the slightest bit interesting in these characters' lives. So what happened? It sounds a lot like The Slap so far which was a major event in Australian Television im led to believe but died after like 2 episodes in the US because nobody gave a poo poo about slapping a kid.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Hahahahahaha okay this bit is amazing. I recently read an article about a biological woman in 1700s Denmark who apparently passed as a man for years (impossible to say if they were transman or just trying to make a living -- women weren't legally allowed to have jobs or own property unless temporarily as widows). Apparently they worked as a cook on long-faring ships & married a woman at some point (via a faked note saying their previous wife had died & they were a widower). Eventually they were caught by using a "horn" to piss through. The article wasn't sure what exactly that meant, but assumed it was a kind of hollowed out horn, like a drinking horn. Apparently some guy noticed and was really offended that a woman was doing a man's job and so yeah death sentence iirc. Pretty hosed up all in all.
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# ? Jul 14, 2017 20:12 |
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There are several commercial products for just that purpose. Some of the disposable ones are in fact cardboard. Obviously they don't look remotely like penises, but lol at that author feeling threatened by cardboard funnels.
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Toast Museum posted:There are several commercial products for just that purpose. Some of the disposable ones are in fact cardboard. Obviously they don't look remotely like penises, but lol at that author feeling threatened by cardboard funnels. oh poo poo sorry yeah, that was my point, i forgot to say. funnels/whatevers enabling biological women to stand up and piss are probably older than history
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Powaqoatse posted:oh poo poo sorry yeah, that was my point, i forgot to say. funnels/whatevers enabling biological women to stand up and piss are probably older than history Everyone should be allowed to experience pissing on a tree while standing up.
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