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Absurd Alhazred posted:
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Hate Fibration posted:He looks like Thomas Ligotti just woke up and decided he was gonna be really fat and stupid.  #yourfavisproblematic
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Memento posted:There's nothing better than Trumpkins telling Tom Morello he should stick with music and stay out of politics because he has no qualifications to discuss them That Instagram comment where he dunked on someone who was pissed off at his gently caress trump guitar with the ol’ “you don’t need to be an honors graduate from Harvard in political science to think trump is the worst, but as an honors grad from Harvard in political science, gently caress that guy” thing was loving beautiful
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I can confirm Piers Anthony's books are about loving everything you could conceivably gently caress.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
I abandoned mainstream podcasts when one of them had a story about a troubled 12 year old hitchhiking to Piers Anthony's house and getting good life advice from him without ever mentioning that he is a pedophile
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I don't know about public libraries, but I read Piers Anthony in junior high, and got them from the school library. Being a 14 year old girl at the time, it didn't seem that weird that teenage girls were hooking up with grown men in the Apprentice Adept and Bio of a Space Tyrant books. The last thing a 14 year old girl wants to daydream about is dating 14 year old boys. The highschool library had a few Gor books too. Anything to get kids to read, I guess. The Xanth books would probably be in the juvenile/teen section of any library though. Xanth is weird, but it's all pretty G rated.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I don't know about public libraries, but I read Piers Anthony in junior high, and got them from the school library. Being a 14 year old girl at the time, it didn't seem that weird that teenage girls were hooking up with grown men in the Apprentice Adept and Bio of a Space Tyrant books. The last thing a 14 year old girl wants to daydream about is dating 14 year old boys. The highschool library had a few Gor books too. Anything to get kids to read, I guess. You missed a lot of hosed-up poo poo in Xanth I guess e: 
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MissEchelon posted:You missed a lot of hosed-up poo poo in Xanth I guess Not knowing who Piers Anthony was, I assumed this was a photoshop. Nope, it turns out. Facebook Aunt posted:The highschool library had a few Gor books too. The only Got book that should exist is Houseplants of Gor. 
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Is naming your kid Piers basically just branding them to be a lovely human being? Are there any worthwhile Piers?
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GrandpaPants posted:Is naming your kid Piers basically just branding them to be a lovely human being? Are there any worthwhile Piers? Blackpool Pier's OK.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I don't know about public libraries, but I read Piers Anthony in junior high, and got them from the school library. Being a 14 year old girl at the time, it didn't seem that weird that teenage girls were hooking up with grown men in the Apprentice Adept and Bio of a Space Tyrant books. The last thing a 14 year old girl wants to daydream about is dating 14 year old boys. The highschool library had a few Gor books too. Anything to get kids to read, I guess. I read Wizard's First Rule when I find it in a school library. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too. I'm pretty sure that it was (is?) basically assumed by librarians that fantasy and sci-fi were for kids and that they didn't need to bother checking for inappropriate content.
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GrandpaPants posted:Is naming your kid Piers basically just branding them to be a lovely human being? Are there any worthwhile Piers? They're labelled appropriately. Pierce = good Piers = bad
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Yeah I remember I read a lot of David Eddings as a teenager, and while he was pretty dreadful, he wasn't nearly Piers Anthony levels of bad. Anyway. Jan Michael Vincent, or whoever is pretending to be him on twitter, is either insane or doing a really long bit. https://twitter.com/Airwolf4Life/status/954497246334210048
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Memento posted:Yeah I remember I read a lot of David Eddings as a teenager, and while he was pretty dreadful, he wasn't nearly Piers Anthony levels of bad. welp 
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sunken fleet posted:What are these guys even talking about? I can't follow this twitter stuff apparently... See, you got most of the words, now you just have to put them in the right order and think about what they mean. You can do it, we all believe in you!
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:I abandoned mainstream podcasts when one of them had a story about a troubled 12 year old hitchhiking to Piers Anthony's house and getting good life advice from him without ever mentioning that he is a pedophile That was this American Life? Or Radiolab maybe? Something I heard on NPR. Anyway, the only Piers Anthony novel I've read is Firefly, which if you weren't aware is less a book about a giant killer firefly than it is a giant defense of pedophilia. Dude is
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Tiggum posted:I read Wizard's First Rule when I find it in a school library. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too. I'm pretty sure that it was (is?) basically assumed by librarians that fantasy and sci-fi were for kids and that they didn't need to bother checking for inappropriate content.  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress doesn't seem out of place in a high school library, although you could find better use of that shelf space these days.Wizard's First
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BigglesSWE posted:Mara Wilson is cool and good so I just assume any guy that argues with her regarding problematic childsex is a loving moron. Especially considering that the reason she got into the internet in such a big way, even guesting on Channel Awesome occasionally and writing an article for Cracked, is because of problematic websites - to hear her tell it in the article, when she was younger she came across a website that was dedicated to photos of underage actors feet, and one of her pics had found it's way there - at the time she was too young to quite get what was going on and just thought it was funny, but recently (this part is speculation on my part based on the aforementioned anecdote) she's basically taking her image back online by taking a more active presence.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Any famous child actor that gets into adulthood without massive problems is too good for this world. That was actually why she was on Cracked - her article was http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-reasons-child-stars-go-crazy-an-insiders-perspective/ - she actually mentioned that she wished that she could have been there to give Lindsey Lohan advice before she broke, because the difference between her and other child stars was as follows - most stars get into it because their parents want them to - Mara got into it because she wanted to. Her mother was against it from the start. Her advice is basically "Stop when it stops being fun." BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 15:02 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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BioEnchanted posted:He's probably panicking, there are only 16 Jan Michael Vincents left. Only enough for a quadrant I need a goddamn Jan Michael Vincent right now!
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Facebook Aunt posted:I don't know about public libraries, but I read Piers Anthony in junior high, and got them from the school library. Being a 14 year old girl at the time, it didn't seem that weird that teenage girls were hooking up with grown men in the Apprentice Adept and Bio of a Space Tyrant books. The last thing a 14 year old girl wants to daydream about is dating 14 year old boys. The highschool library had a few Gor books too. Anything to get kids to read, I guess. It really isn't. I read Xanth a lot as a kid, too, and only remembered puns and fantasy romps. Then I listened to this podcast covering the first book and holy poo poo there was a lot you don't pick up on when you're a dumb kid.
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At the cajoling of a friend, I read On a Pale Horse and didn't totally hate it. They sold it to me as a "more serious but still interesting series with the humerous undercurrent of Discworld". Then I read Bearing an Hourglass and it was a convoluted garbage book written by a not-funny sadman. That's my Piers Anthony is bad story.
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Puppy Time posted:It really isn't. I read Xanth a lot as a kid, too, and only remembered puns and fantasy romps. One of the more recent books, Air Apparent, features a character known as a Debra who is a 13-year-old girl who is constantly pressured to take off her bra. She is based on a real girl.
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BigglesSWE posted:Mara Wilson is cool and good so I just assume any guy that argues with her regarding problematic childsex is a loving moron. I don't know, you tell me:  https://twitter.com/SpyderBite/status/954716833470234624 
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I was in Iraq in 2007, and one of the few things I wad allowed to do in the TOC (when we weren't getting shot at and directing anti-mortar fire) was read. They had a room filled with books from USO gift boxes, so I read. Got a copy of Again, Dangerous Visions, Good Omens and Isaac Asimov's Gold from that collection that I snuck out. Also read Wizards First Rule and On a Pale Horse. Piers just kinda bored me. Goodkind actively courted my disgust with how bad his book was. Kinda glad I didn't find any more of Piers Anthony, dude sounds like crap. Also, Heinlein is kinda...weird on that scale? On one hand you have Job and Glory Road, where the female protagonists drive most of the plot with their character and status to the point that the male protag ends up chasing after them. Then you have Friday and some of his other works that are...um...'quaint' in how they treat their female protagonists. Good Omens is still great, though. Ended up giving my copy to a friend. Also did that with my copy of Callahans Crosstime Saloon. I tend to do that with books I really like. Also, Spider Robinson. Add him to the list of kinda hit mostly miss authors.
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Ambitious Spider posted:That was this American Life? Or Radiolab maybe? Something I heard on NPR. Anyway, the only Piers Anthony novel I've read is Firefly, which if you weren't aware is less a book about a giant killer firefly than it is a giant defense of pedophilia. Dude is B-but why won't anyone think of the 5-year-olds who want to have sex with adults? How is it the adult's fault then? An actual literal argument used by Piers Anthony in that book.
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J.A.B.C. posted:I was in Iraq in 2007, and one of the few things I wad allowed to do in the TOC (when we weren't getting shot at and directing anti-mortar fire) was read. They had a room filled with books from USO gift boxes, so I read. I don’t think the incarnations series is quite as bad, at least I don’t remember them that way but it’s been 20 years. I never read his other stuff.
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hanales posted:I don’t think the incarnations series is quite as bad, at least I don’t remember them that way but it’s been 20 years. I never read his other stuff. It totally is, even before you get to the one where a woman is given a male body and is seized by the urge to rape all the time, coming away with being impressed by men's self control. That may be the same book that also features a spirited defense of a pedophile who uses his position of authority as a judge to prey on a victim. Even the first one, which is possibly the best of the series, has a plot that hinges on "no see it was just psychic rape, so she's totally a pure virgin and also hellbound because now she's corrupted by evil". gently caress Piers Anthony.
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Dienes posted:One of the more recent books, Air Apparent, features a character known as a Debra who is a 13-year-old girl who is constantly pressured to take off her bra. She is based on a real girl. loving Wikipedia posted:Air Apparent includes a character known as a Debra who is a 13-year-old girl who is constantly pressured to take off her bra. To De-Bra so to speak. She is based on a real girl. Debra Kawaguchi was a huge fan of the Xanth series and after her death in 2004, her father wrote Piers and asked him to include Debra in his cast of characters. After Piers explained to Debra's father that the only way he could think to include Debra in the book was through the De-Bra-ing pun, Mr. Kawaguchi agreed that Debra would have been delighted to be a character in Xanth and would have loved the pun. 
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