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The Day My Bum Went Psycho had two sequels, and already was by Andy Griffiths, author of the 'Just' series of children's books; Just Tricking, Just Annoying, Just Stupid, etc. I think the latest one was Just Macbeth.
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Aug 30, 2017 07:33
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The Vosgian Beast posted:What's whatever language that is for "park"? Does the pun translate?
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Aug 30, 2017 07:43
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So the author of "My Immortal" has possibly issued a statement denying being the same person who wrote "Handbook for Mortals". I am becoming increasing convinced that 2017 isn't real and/or we didnt survive that plane crash. https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/my-immortal-fanfic-2017-update/
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Aug 31, 2017 17:50
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I shouldn't be surprised there's so many people who knew about My Immortal but did not know it was a joke that the author had to explain it.
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Aug 31, 2017 18:07
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In the Let's Read, it's getting worse. Carrot Top and Wayne Newton have appeared to fawn over the author avatar.
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Aug 31, 2017 18:11
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Jerry Cotton posted:Farts and poo is basically a genre of children's literature. 
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Aug 31, 2017 18:24
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chitoryu12 posted:In the Let's Read, it's getting worse. This is extra amusing when you recall Carrot Top having turned into a steroids monster.
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Sep 1, 2017 06:26
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The Vosgian Beast posted:What's whatever language that is for "park"? Does the pun translate? Puisto. So no, you can't really make it work.
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Sep 1, 2017 07:19
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Jerry Cotton posted:Farts and poo is basically a genre of children's literature. Speaking as a parent of three young boys... fart jokes become funny some time before your second birthday, and stop being funny... basically never.
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Sep 1, 2017 11:59
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Groke posted:Speaking as a parent of three young boys... fart jokes become funny some time before your second birthday, and stop being funny... basically never. Yeah, but even before your second birthday, actual farts are funny. e: Well, your own.
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Sep 1, 2017 12:05
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Jo Nesbø? Really? Huh.
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Sep 1, 2017 14:30
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chitoryu12 posted:In the Let's Read, it's getting worse. New York Times Bestseller
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Sep 1, 2017 17:25
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Re: Dan Simmons The AbominableAmbitious Spider posted:I know I just said there's no middle ground with Simmons but this might be it. It's the same gimmick as terror or drood but executed poorly. Mileage may vary Depending on how much you enjoy mountain climbing stories. I read it at a time I was on a big Everest kick so I enjoyed it, but it's the weakest of his good novels and the twist is kind of groan worthy. Comrade Koba posted:Cool. Just recently reread Into Thin Air, so I'll probably give it a try. Just finished it, and holy poo poo you weren't kidding. 90% of the book is the main character massively sperging out over the various minutiae of mountain climbing. The twist being groan-worthy is a serious understatement. If I'd been a 14-year old edgelord I'd probably have loved it.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:58
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E: double post
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Sep 1, 2017 20:59
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I like to imagine that the second and third act are literally just the same words copypasted much like the above posts. It'd really be something wouldn't it? E: aw poo way to step all over my amazing forums joke
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Sep 1, 2017 21:00
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the finns
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Sep 2, 2017 00:29
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I just learned that my little sister loved RPO and listened to the audiobook twice. 
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Sep 2, 2017 04:01
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Sever.
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Sep 2, 2017 11:19
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She's my best friend in this world.  I asked her what she liked about it and she liked that it was read by Will Wheaton, so could be worse I guess.
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Sep 2, 2017 11:45
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WrenP-Complete posted:She's my best friend in this world. That is worse.
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Sep 2, 2017 17:34
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Maradonia chat: I just realized Gloria Tesch was born in '94, making her 23 this year. Does she have the slightest bit of embarrassment or shame for the godawful self-insert book she wrote when she was in middle school? I mean, poo poo, I wrote a loving -binder- full of Peter Pan and the Pirates fanfiction when I was 11 but 25 years later it's sitting on a shelf in the back of my closet for nostalgia's sake and will never, ever be shown to anyone because dear god fe: also it is objectively better written than Maradonia
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Sep 2, 2017 20:27
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She was still loving that chicken in 2014, but lately it seems that she's changed her tack. I think that the spectacular failure of her Indiegogo drive for the Maradonia movie knocked some sense into her about that whole project (although she still seems as egomaniacal as ever).
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Sep 2, 2017 21:28
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TheKennedys posted:Maradonia chat: I just realized Gloria Tesch was born in '94, making her 23 this year. Does she have the slightest bit of embarrassment or shame for the godawful self-insert book she wrote when she was in middle school? I mean, poo poo, I wrote a loving -binder- full of Peter Pan and the Pirates fanfiction when I was 11 but 25 years later it's sitting on a shelf in the back of my closet for nostalgia's sake and will never, ever be shown to anyone because dear god She was dating a music producer for awhile and made some truly awful music videos. Last I heard she was going the Instagram ho route. More power to her, she might be pretty enough in the generic socal style to pull it off.
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Sep 3, 2017 00:01
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Just got off a livestream where this dude I'm following read a terrible book. The stream's 3.5 hours long, but sooo worth listening to if you have the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hufEKggev2o
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Sep 3, 2017 00:40
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CommissarMega posted:Just got off a livestream where this dude I'm following read a terrible book. The stream's 3.5 hours long, but sooo worth listening to if you have the time:
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Sep 3, 2017 01:56
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CommissarMega posted:Just got off a livestream where this dude I'm following read a terrible book. The stream's 3.5 hours long, but sooo worth listening to if you have the time: Book......MARKED (sorry I got infected by all the ellipsis from the book's Amazon description)
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Sep 3, 2017 02:53
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Comrade Koba posted:Re: Dan Simmons The Abominable I gave up about 300 pages in because of all the god drat climbing bullshit. Can you spoiler the ending please?
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Sep 3, 2017 04:24
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poly and open-minded posted:I gave up about 300 pages in because of all the god drat climbing bullshit. Can you spoiler the ending please? I haven't read it but I heard the infamous ending involves the main character getting to the top of Everest and finding photographs of Hitler loving kids
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Sep 3, 2017 06:03
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poly and open-minded posted:I gave up about 300 pages in because of all the god drat climbing bullshit. Can you spoiler the ending please? The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. In the epilogue, the protagonist personally hands the pictures over to Winston Churchill, who later uses them to blackmail Nazi Germany into not invading Britain. Comrade Koba has a new favorite as of 07:13 on Sep 3, 2017 |
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Sep 3, 2017 07:05
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Comrade Koba posted:The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. 
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Sep 3, 2017 11:54
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TheKennedys posted:Maradonia chat: I just realized Gloria Tesch was born in '94, making her 23 this year. Does she have the slightest bit of embarrassment or shame for the godawful self-insert book she wrote when she was in middle school? I mean, poo poo, I wrote a loving -binder- full of Peter Pan and the Pirates fanfiction when I was 11 but 25 years later it's sitting on a shelf in the back of my closet for nostalgia's sake and will never, ever be shown to anyone because dear god If by shame you mean starring in the movie adaptation of her books, directed by her father, then yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Q0BZsZ8ns
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Sep 3, 2017 12:07
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Rough Lobster posted:I haven't read it but I heard the infamous ending involves the main character getting to the top of Everest and finding photographs of Hitler loving kids Ha ha good joke. Comrade Koba posted:The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. Oh.
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Sep 3, 2017 12:45
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Comrade Koba posted:The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. Now I'm wondering if Hyperion was some kind of anomaly. Seriously, WTF is up with that ending?
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Sep 3, 2017 13:05
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Ha ha good joke. Yeah, it's exactly as dumb as it sounds.
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Sep 3, 2017 13:20
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Comrade Koba posted:The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. Man that's my favorite episode of Danger-5
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Sep 3, 2017 16:48
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Tahjir posted:If by shame you mean starring in the movie adaptation of her books, directed by her father, then yes. Yeah, I guess I knew this horrible poo poo was from 2014, I've seen the sporking and cringed through as many seconds of the clips as I can bear, it's just weird that that was only three years ago. Her website seems to be 99% fashion/instagram stuff now so maybe she's backing off the Maradonia train a bit. In non-Gloria Tesch content, I'm rereading David Eddings' Redemption of Althalus for about the 97th time because I love Eddings despite his many, many flaws, and the older I get the more his incessant need to explain jokes and drag out every dialogue exchange three times longer than necessary to get in the required "Now now, Althalus" "Yes, dear" joke every other page bothers the gently caress out of me. The man is just not good at dialogue, particularly in his later stuff. RoA feels almost like an anime when it comes to the awful tell-don't-show dialogue, and I seem to remember not being able to get through the Dreamers series because it was basically the Belgariad all over again.
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Sep 3, 2017 16:55
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Comrade Koba posted:The kid that died on the previous expedition was really a kickass super-spy. When they finally find his frozen corpse, they find out he was carrying a secret weapon to use against the Nazis: a set of detailed photographs of Hitler having gay sex with Jewish kids. looks like i made the right choice!
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Sep 3, 2017 17:10
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Everything Eddings wrote after the Belgariad was just the Belgariad repackaged. The only good book in the Mallorean was the first one because it had a unique concept. You don't see many fantasy novels that deal with the aftermath of the climactic save the world plot, so Guardians of the West devolves into this really funny mess of situations where Garion has no clue how to be a king and has to handle all the bullshit his companions get up to when they aren't united against the Angarak nations. And then the rest of the series happens and it's just the Belgariad all over again.
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Sep 3, 2017 17:28
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Arcsquad12 posted:Everything Eddings wrote after the Belgariad was just the Belgariad repackaged. The only good book in the Mallorean was the first one because it had a unique concept. You don't see many fantasy novels that deal with the aftermath of the climactic save the world plot, so Guardians of the West devolves into this really funny mess of situations where Garion has no clue how to be a king and has to handle all the bullshit his companions get up to when they aren't united against the Angarak nations. Yeah, I mean, that's fair  I still unironically enjoy the Elenium but the whole Sparhawk/Ehlana age gap gets super creepy once you get older and realize he's supposed to be like 40+.
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