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Jan 15, 2018 10:13
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Who keeps raiding my secret romance pulp drawer?
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Jan 15, 2018 16:51
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Who keeps raiding my secret romance pulp drawer?   
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Jan 15, 2018 16:55
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I've seen that book. Yes it's demographic is creepy boomer aged retired Canadian snowbirds summering in South Florida on the Gulf Coast.
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Jan 15, 2018 18:34
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A book so famous it has its own Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(novel)
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Jan 15, 2018 18:39
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All I can think about is a big burly gay man going hetero for a lady, my mind is protecting me from truths I could not bear.
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Jan 15, 2018 18:40
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Randaconda posted:Absolutely horrific words and images We need some combination of  and 
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Jan 15, 2018 19:38
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Absurd Alhazred posted:We need some combination of 
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Jan 15, 2018 19:59
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Yessssss
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Jan 15, 2018 20:19
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I laughed but I’m also an idiot.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:48
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I always take stuff like this as an indication that a lot of people just... do not read. Even people who hand out literary awards, apparently! They hear through the grapevine that a particular book is popular or profane and go along with the zeitgeist.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:35
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What I want to know is if all bears have asymmetrical balls or just that one?
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Jan 15, 2018 21:37
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Who What Now posted:What I want to know is if all bears have asymmetrical balls or just that one? Well, you know how to find the answer.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:39
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ImpAtom posted:Well, you know how to find the answer. Get a study grant or partner with National Geographic for a 2 year survey in the wilds?
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Jan 15, 2018 21:50
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Zil posted:Get a study grant or partner with National Geographic for a 2 year survey in the wilds? That or gently caress a lot of bears, whichever.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:54
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ImpAtom posted:That or gently caress a lot of bears, whichever. I thought that was implied, I was just making sure there was a source of funding for the endeavor. Don't want to give it away for free now.
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Jan 15, 2018 21:58
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Rolo posted:I laughed but I’m also an idiot. Reading comics has never been so succinctly described
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Jan 15, 2018 22:37
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Skippy McPants posted:I always take stuff like this as an indication that a lot of people just... do not read. Even people who hand out literary awards, apparently! They hear through the grapevine that a particular book is popular or profane and go along with the zeitgeist. Basically every piece of award-winning Canadian fiction ever is this: - person is emotionally damaged - person has an unconventional encounter with nature - person returns to civilization rejuvenated Bear is just a more extreme and artistically insane version of this, so of course it won awards.
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Jan 15, 2018 22:53
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vyelkin posted:Basically every piece of award-winning Canadian fiction ever is this: What was the name of that series of YA books about this weird kid, then adult repeatedly finding himself stuck in the Canadian wilderness and having to fend for himself?
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Jan 15, 2018 23:01
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What was the name of that series of YA books about this weird kid, then adult repeatedly finding himself stuck in the Canadian wilderness and having to fend for himself? Hatchet?
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Jan 15, 2018 23:06
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So.. was The Revenant based on Bear? I just assume.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:08
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Pronounced posted:Hatchet? Yeah. Turns out it was an American novel, so I guess I was off with the joke-like thing I was trying to build up. 
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Jan 15, 2018 23:11
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http://www.canlitgenerator.com A teenager spends 455 pages wandering through that desert in Quebec, you know the one, without realizing that Drake references aren't inherently hip or funny.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:11
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What was the name of that series of YA books about this weird kid, then adult repeatedly finding himself stuck in the Canadian wilderness and having to fend for himself? I think it was... Pronounced posted:Hatchet? Yeah that series.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:11
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yeah. Turns out it was an American novel, so I guess I was off with the joke-like thing I was trying to build up. Just read the wiki he does end up in Canada in the second book
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Jan 15, 2018 23:17
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Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in. "Hey, Paul, I think my sister got lost in Central Park." 'I'll need a plane piloted by a guy whose going to die any minute, a hatchet, and some matches.'
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Jan 15, 2018 23:30
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That was a series?! How is that story in any way a repeatable formula?
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Jan 15, 2018 23:32
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Looks like things immediately went off the rails in the second book.quote:Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old boy who spent 54 days surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness the previous summer, is hired by the government to again live in the woods with only two knives and surviving only by his wits, so the military can learn his survival techniques.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:38
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I thought the kid's name was Paul. Was that the name of the author or? (Googles) Ah, the author's name was Gary Paulsen.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:52
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I only read a couple chapters of the sequel but his trying to re-integrate into society after being Grizzly Adams was done... well? Also, we'll never know who was the better frontiersman, Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain, because neither of them had to start from zero.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:55
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Lizard Combatant posted:That was a series?! How is that story in any way a repeatable formula? iirc there was one book where the people send him back to document his survival techniques and it all gets hosed up because of a storm, and another book where it's an alternate timeline where the main boy doesn't get rescued before winter arrives. i think there's a bear in that one i read a lot of gary paulsen as a kid. if you think those sequels were crazy, you should check out the sequels to "night" by elie wiesel
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Jan 15, 2018 23:58
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trapped mouse posted:iirc there was one book where the people send him back to document his survival techniques and it all gets hosed up because of a storm, and another book where it's an alternate timeline where the main boy doesn't get rescued before winter arrives. i think there's a bear in that one Is “bailing on plans when it storms” not a survival technique?
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Jan 16, 2018 00:06
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Kenny Logins posted:http://www.canlitgenerator.com Three undergraduates from diverse backgrounds absent-mindedly conduct a maple syrup heist only to return with a broken soul.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:09
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Rolo posted:Is “bailing on plans when it storms” not a survival technique? ...yes I remember this. Also how did nobody notice this: Those balls aren't asymmetrical. They're assymetrical.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:15
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could that be a US/British english things? Like color/colour or how they call elevators "lorries" or whatever?
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Jan 16, 2018 01:46
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Grand Prize Winner posted:could that be a US/British english things? Like color/colour or how they call elevators "lorries" or whatever? Very much the case. Just like Americans call torches "blink-bulbs"
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Jan 16, 2018 01:54
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I think youll find we call them the blinky bulby flashy washer
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Jan 16, 2018 02:30
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Put on a perspirator and take a blinky bulby if you're going out at night.
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Jan 16, 2018 03:07
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Lizard Combatant posted:Put on a perspirator and take a blinky bulby if you're going out at night. Where's your hi-vis vest? You wanna get hit?
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