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Snow Crash is baller.
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Cnut the Great posted:
My takeaway from this is that Rothfuss is Piers Anthony 2.0, minus puns. The Dennis System posted:Snow Crash is baller. This guy gets it.
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Dec 12, 2017 09:10
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I’m with some other poster a few pages back. I read Ready Player One at the recommendation of a friend and I enjoyed it at the time. No trouble finishing it. It was cheesy as gently caress, but it didn’t seem terrible. Time passed and it didn’t do as well on a re-read. It’s still a little perplexing to me how HATED it is though. I’ve read far, far worse.
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Dec 12, 2017 10:51
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Because it's being made into a major movie by Stephen Spielberg. It's a 'of all the projects this is the one?' moment.
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Dec 12, 2017 11:48
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^^ Also because of all the people who think this book is really good and that it got all good reviews, when it's mostly just embarassing trash. Though it can be an entertaining read.
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Dec 12, 2017 11:51
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Holy poo poo. Does this guy not know how to make allusions? Does he not realize that clinically explaining every reference kills the effect and is boring as poo poo to read? Like, even if you were a nerd who loved everything being referenced, why would you want to read a novel's worth of IMDB summaries of Blade Runner or Ghostbusters or whatever?
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Dec 12, 2017 12:47
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holy poo poo this book is written horribly
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Dec 12, 2017 13:47
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target audience:
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Dec 12, 2017 13:57
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You know I half wonder if Spielberg made this movie cause his ego was big enough that he thinks he can turn this terrible popular book into a decent movie. Like what makes the books so bad its the main character is constantly jerking himself off about the 80s and explaining everything to the reader. A movie would just have the main character DO stuff while the references and poo poo happen around him.
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Dec 12, 2017 14:01
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this is the only thing I can think about after reading this book: 
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Dec 12, 2017 14:08
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lemon-lyme disease posted:I’m with some other poster a few pages back. I read Ready Player One at the recommendation of a friend and I enjoyed it at the time. No trouble finishing it. It was cheesy as gently caress, but it didn’t seem terrible. It's like how the Big Bang Theory is a bad show, but there are many worse, but then it wins billions of awards and every acquaintance or relative you have says "hey, you work on a computer and like nerd stuff, right? You have GOT to watch this show it's about people like you!!"
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Dec 12, 2017 15:33
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A couple of the guys from RiffTrax did a podcast about the book recently called 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back. It's a great listen.
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Dec 12, 2017 15:36
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Canned Panda posted:A couple of the guys from RiffTrax did a podcast about the book recently called 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back. lol it's only 372 pages?
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Dec 12, 2017 17:48
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DoctorJones posted:Disregard what that dummy wrote and read it. NotW is fantastic. The dream girl who friendzones the nice guy for jerks is LITERALLY a whore. I kinda liked the books, but his realtionships with women are textbook "nice guy" bullshit.
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Dec 12, 2017 18:07
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The Dennis System posted:Snow Crash is baller.
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Dec 12, 2017 18:08
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esperterra posted:Redwall is DOPE and Redwall/Mattimeo are by far not the best of the series imo. oh she hates the furries. nah its nostalgia, basicaly she is stuck at home in lovely job she hates and she can't get into the woods everyday like she used to when she lived in another state. so she kinda rereads this stuff. i like the books enough. i got her the dragon age book series because yeah its meh but she might like it and then she might get interested in games. esperterra posted:Salamandastron is so good! Anything dealing with the Badgers is dope as hell. Outcast and Muriel are really good, too, and I got super into Mossflower and all the books about Martin. Boy went through some poo poo. Marlfox was p cool, too. tbh I had no complaints about any of them, they're all very easy reads and p fun adventures full of romance, death, spoops, no seriously a lot of violent bloody murder, camradarie and the importance of being a good person, doing the right thing, even if you got mad flaws, man. oh yeah its good poo poo. i need to read more of them sometime. maybe over break.
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Dec 12, 2017 19:40
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I liked Redwall stuff, and then at some point the switch flipped and i found them unreadable which was sad because I remember thoroughly enjoying stories about rabbits and badgers that could wreck poo poo
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Dec 12, 2017 19:43
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Dapper_Swindler posted:oh she hates the furries. nah its nostalgia, basicaly she is stuck at home in lovely job she hates and she can't get into the woods everyday like she used to when she lived in another state. so she kinda rereads this stuff. i like the books enough. i got her the dragon age book series because yeah its meh but she might like it and then she might get interested in games. Maybe hook her up with the Witcher books, I think all but the latest are translated now.
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Dec 12, 2017 19:49
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ALFbrot posted:It's like how the Big Bang Theory is a bad show, but there are many worse, but then it wins billions of awards and every acquaintance or relative you have says "hey, you work on a computer and like nerd stuff, right? You have GOT to watch this show it's about people like you!!" Aha! okay, this I get. Kind of a “gently caress, this person thinks I would love this?” deal.
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Dec 12, 2017 19:51
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All the cool fighting/action in Snow Crash happens outside of the virtual world Mainly on a flotilla of lovely boats attached to an old aircraft carrier that travels around the world collecting society's poor who are being ejected from the corporate owned world. Also the pizza mafia
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Dec 12, 2017 20:42
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Snowcrash predicted penis avatars in second life a decade before it existed, talk about cutting edge.
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Dec 12, 2017 20:55
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I don't get why people are putting Snow Crash and Ready Player One in the same category other than they both have some kind of VR second life that everyone jerks off in. (I never actually read RPO and I never plan to though)
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Dec 12, 2017 21:17
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Really scratching my noggin here trying to figure out why Steven Spielberg would choose to work with a story in which a whole lot of great stuff was made in the 80's and nothing of note since. I mean what could possibly between the connection between Steven Spielberg and "good stuff from the 80's"??? Or between Steven Spielberg and "nothing of note since the 80's"??? Just super perplexed over why a book which describes the 80's as being the pinnacle of artistic creation and ignores everything that came after has drawn the attention of Steven Spielberg.
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Dec 12, 2017 21:44
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Because he's a hack
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Dec 12, 2017 22:00
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esperterra posted:Maybe hook her up with the Witcher books, I think all but the latest are translated now. she thought they were alright. as i said. she is set in her ways. idk. Chomp8645 posted:Really scratching my noggin here trying to figure out why Steven Spielberg would choose to work with a story in which a whole lot of great stuff was made in the 80's and nothing of note since. he is old and probaly thinks it will make money with the kids. bag em and tag em posted:I liked Redwall stuff, and then at some point the switch flipped and i found them unreadable which was sad because I remember thoroughly enjoying stories about rabbits and badgers that could wreck poo poo my problem with the books is basically this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV1-fsFCmw the switch comes because every book is the originality gives out after a while. the plot is some vermin dickhead is the baddest evilist gently caress imaginable with some weird personality quirk/past and then dies in some way, also the hero/heroin/group gently caress around the abby or the woods to find a magguffin or some poo poo. also their will be a bunch of named henchmen who will die in gruesome ways because of their own stupidty/greed/whatever. the stories arnt badly written, its just the content gets stale. whats sucks is they could make a genuinely good cartoon off of the books(you can get away with ton of violence if its animals or "implied") you could make a mini series for the books. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Dec 12, 2017 |
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Dec 12, 2017 23:08
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For sure. It wasn't so bad if you read them as Jacques released them, there was usually half a year to a year between books so nbd. Reading them all in one go after the fact could get repetitive af tho, esp as an adult.
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Dec 12, 2017 23:15
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Chomp8645 posted:Really scratching my noggin here trying to figure out why Steven Spielberg would choose to work with a story in which a whole lot of great stuff was made in the 80's and nothing of note since. lol
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Dec 12, 2017 23:21
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esperterra posted:For sure. It wasn't so bad if you read them as Jacques released them, there was usually half a year to a year between books so nbd. Reading them all in one go after the fact could get repetitive af tho, esp as an adult. the audio books are good(they are/were cheap as gently caress on audible) its done by a cast which is kinda cool.
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Dec 12, 2017 23:26
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Dapper_Swindler posted:the audio books are good(they are/were cheap as gently caress on audible) its done by a cast which is kinda cool. I'll look into them! I wish they would have done more of those Canadian/French produced cartoons tbh. The Mattimeo one had Tim Curry playing Slagar the Cruel, poo poo was legit.
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Dec 12, 2017 23:32
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esperterra posted:I'll look into them! I wish they would have done more of those Canadian/French produced cartoons tbh. The Mattimeo one had Tim Curry playing Slagar the Cruel, poo poo was legit. yeah, its weird and bad but good. word of warning. if you buy the audiobook cast one for redwall, cluny screams, alot, like bad mic twitch scream full throated yells that make you ears hurt. so get the regular one(both are unabridged) if you dont want that poo poo.
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Dec 12, 2017 23:38
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these excerpts are physically painful holy poo poo
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Dec 13, 2017 01:29
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I would like to flush this authors head in a toilet
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Dec 13, 2017 01:41
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lazorexplosion posted:these excerpts are physically painful holy poo poo it reads like poo poo i wrote in elementary school where it was pokemon/star wars/lord of the rings crossover.
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Dec 13, 2017 01:43
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Wil Wheaton sees nothing wrong with the poster for this trash movie 😑
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Dec 13, 2017 01:44
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We Know Catheters posted:Wil Wheaton sees nothing wrong with the poster for this trash movie 😑 wil wheaton is nice but stupid jackoff and says this poo poo because he careers bedrock is him being a hated character on good tv show in the 80/90s.
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Dec 13, 2017 01:48
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I feel the need to punch all pop culture nerds and it's self-defense.
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Dec 13, 2017 01:49
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No one cares what Wesley has to say
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Dec 13, 2017 01:49
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I hate Will Wheaton.
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Dec 13, 2017 04:22
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I sent my co-worker a few pages from this thread. She's an expectant mother. She said those pages gave her cancer. Not joking.
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Dec 13, 2017 04:30
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Blue Train posted:No one cares what Wesley has to say 
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