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gschmidl posted:Dan Simmons also seems to have written an Everest horror novel called "The Abominable", which includes nazi zombies. There aren’t any nazi zombies in it, but the final twist/reveal is so insanely stupid and poorly written it retroactively ruins the rest of the book. The mountaineering parts are fine and seemed well researched, the plot is alright (with some exceptions) right up until just before the end.
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I would pay good money for an Everest book where Zombie Green Boots hunts down and kills anyone who's ever taken a selfie with his corpse.
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Sep 25, 2021 10:23
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the death zone just got more populated!
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Sep 25, 2021 10:31
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Comrade Koba posted:There aren’t any nazi zombies in it, but the final twist/reveal is so insanely stupid and poorly written it retroactively ruins the rest of the book. Huh, I must've misremembered. Maybe that's a different book.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I would pay good money for an Everest book where Zombie Green Boots hunts down and kills anyone who's ever taken a selfie with his corpse. I don’t watch horror movies, but I’d make an exception.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I would pay good money for an Everest book where Zombie Green Boots hunts down and kills anyone who's ever taken a selfie with his corpse. Imagine how slow the chases in a zombie movie on Everest would be.
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Sep 25, 2021 17:47
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Nocheez posted:Imagine how slow the chases in a zombie movie on Everest would be. Pro: Zombies don't need oxygen Con: Zombies are frozen solid
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Sep 25, 2021 17:55
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Nocheez posted:Imagine how slow the chases in a zombie movie on Everest would be. the ones coming from uphill are pretty fast
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Sep 25, 2021 17:57
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vortmax posted:Pro: Zombies don't need oxygen That's the twist, all the corpses on Everest are zombies, but nobody has noticed because they are frozen solid. It was supposed to be a real mean curse on those who sully the sacred mountain, but when you buy your curses on ebay things don't always go the way you hoped.
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Nocheez posted:Imagine how slow the chases in a zombie movie on Everest would be. Only if nobody slips. Facebook Aunt posted:That's the twist, all the corpses on Everest are zombies, but nobody has noticed because they are frozen solid. It was supposed to be a real mean curse on those who sully the sacred mountain, but when you buy your curses on ebay things don't always go the way you hoped. But now climate change has thawed them, and hell follows. I like it.
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Sep 25, 2021 18:07
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Using frozen zombies as a sled
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Sep 25, 2021 18:08
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Zero One posted:Food $200 Who pays sherpas? They work because they love to, dummy.
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Sep 25, 2021 18:10
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Subverting the magical brown people trope, the curse was laid by a wiccan white lady.
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Sep 25, 2021 18:12
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She sacrificed herself on the mountain in ceremonial yellow garb.
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Bip Roberts posted:Who pays sherpas? They work because they love to, dummy.
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Sep 26, 2021 09:42
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The trick is to only pay your Sherpas on the way up. They have to go down too. Just follow them back down.
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Drone_Fragger posted:The trick is to only pay your Sherpas on the way up. They have to go down too. Just follow them back down. one weird trick to get your Everest adventure for half off! Sherpas hate it! [click here] orange juche fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Sep 26, 2021 |
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Sep 26, 2021 10:29
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Colonel Cancer posted:Using frozen zombies as a sled Simpsons did it
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Colonel Cancer posted:Using frozen zombies as a sled Is there anything the Simsons haven't done already?
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You can chip icy chunks off the zombies to use as crude fleshy frozen bludgeons against the rest of the horde.
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Sep 27, 2021 20:26
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gschmidl posted:nazi zombies. He couldn't find a better cliche?
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I could barely be bothered to get out of bed this morning while this russian guy just stumped his way up a mountain.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:I could barely be bothered to get out of bed this morning while this russian guy just stumped his way up a mountain. Well yeah, he didn't have a pair of legs weighing him down.
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NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:I could barely be bothered to get out of bed this morning while this russian guy just stumped his way up a mountain. This is only impressive if he accomplished it using only a yosemite hammer, while lodged in a large metal cauldron. EDIT: Come to think of it, that should be the new standard for everyone. Who is going to set the record and become the first person to do a "Getting Over It" run of Mount Everest? LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Oct 5, 2021 |
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Oct 5, 2021 18:22
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doesnt even look like hes all the way at the top. almost, sure, wow good job buddy
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Comrade Koba posted:There aren’t any nazi zombies in it, but the final twist/reveal is so insanely stupid and poorly written it retroactively ruins the rest of the book. The only book I've ever literally thrown across a room. Do not read it for any reason.
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mdemone posted:The only book I've ever literally thrown across a room. That just makes me want to read it more!
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Outrail posted:That just makes me want to read it more! Here, I'll save you the trouble. The big reveal near the end is that the whole reason for the entire top-secret Everest expedition is to find actual photographic evidence that Hitler is a gay pedophile who hosed Jewish little boys. That's it. It's exactly that stupid.
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Oct 5, 2021 20:41
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Comrade Koba posted:Here, I'll save you the trouble. Well, now I'm definitely gonna read it lmao
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Comrade Koba posted:Here, I'll save you the trouble.  Yeah I kinda want to read this now too. Why is the evidence on Everest to begin with??
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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IIRC the initial setup is that they’re arranging a secret expedition to find the remains of Mallory and Irvine, but it’s later revealed that they’re really after the body of one of the people who accompanied them and was also lost on the mountain, because he was a spy who was carrying “secret diplomatic dispatches”.
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Oct 5, 2021 21:42
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Well, was he?
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I love it. I'm always saying you should carry extra poo poo up the Khumbu Icefall to keep it out of the hands of.... somebody
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I guess if you're planning on not coming back down it's a pretty good spot.
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TBH I can't remember why the foreign service agent decided to join a mountaineering expedition just after narrowly escaping from Nazi Germany with a big ol' wad of nazi child pornography hidden under his jacket. It's...just not a very good book. I think I got extra disappointed because I'd just finished The Terror, which was so much better I almost can't believe they were written by the same guy.
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Comrade Koba posted:I think I got extra disappointed because I'd just finished The Terror, which was so much better I almost can't believe they were written by the same guy. I literally dumped "Flashback" in the paper recycling after 50 pages, it's a fash piece of garbage. gently caress Simmons. https://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/137621172/one-rant-too-many-politics-mar-simmons-dystopia
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gschmidl posted:I literally dumped "Flashback" in the paper recycling after 50 pages, it's a fash piece of garbage. gently caress Simmons. NPR posted:Even more jarring is Simmons' bizarre, sometimes overtly offensive dialogue. One Asian character actually says "Ah, so," and an African-American prisoner named Delroy N-(slur) Brown punctuates his speech with repeated phrases like "You know what I'm sayin' " and "You know what I'm tellin' you.' " In one strikingly tone-deaf moment, the lapsed-liberal professor Fox condemns politicians of the past (the book's past, our present) who weren't sufficiently pro-Israel: "I wish those presidents and senators and representatives had been hanged from lampposts all over Washington." jesus christ gently caress this guy forever
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death to the author e: what I mean is, he should assign a portion of his riches to a mountaineering escapade in and around the Khumbu icefall.
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Comrade Koba posted:jesus christ gently caress this guy forever It's not often taking something out of context makes it more acceptable.
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Do you reckon rich people eat the Everest dead. Older ones more expensive, or like Green boots is famous so big $$$
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