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PJOmega posted:"There are words in this thing!" I mean, that's about what I'd expect from a GWAR novel.
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"Across the vast history of human war and misery, from one part of the European theater of WWII to... a different part of the European theater in WWII!"
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I got an ebook of it. Would the thread like to see some choice passages from it while i reread it?
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Nov 17, 2021 20:48
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If you plan on going through the whole book, it might be better to start a Let's Read in TBB.
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True. It'd be fun to do a whole mess of Bizarro books.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:If you plan on going through the whole book, it might be better to start a Let's Read in TBB. Seconding that, I'm curious about this book (and others like it) but not enough to bother seeking it out for myself.
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Skulk Hogan posted:I got an ebook of it. Would the thread like to see some choice passages from it while i reread it? Let's Read LET'S READ LET'S READ
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Speaking of TBB, today is the last day to sign up for Secret Santa there. I'll start assigning matches at midnight CST, so  before then if you're interested.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:Let's Read Done. Ill start writing the OP when i have a minute and start collecting a couple other books. I think I still have a copy of The rear end Goblins of Auschwitz kicking around. Im sure i can get an ebook of Header. Speaking of Header, its another great candidate for this thread. Its a truly skin-crawling crazy hillbilly novel about a Hatfields/McCoys type feud that escalates to  kidnapping members of their family and loving their brain matter after drilling holes in their skulls. The family that does this describes it like a movie martial arts master describing his Ultimate Final Technique. So of course it was loving Glenn Danzig that published this. Also I guess there's a short film.
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i am very excited for this let's read because honestly i do have faith in dave brockie doing a really lurid pulp take on what whargoul's synopsis promised e: i don't know if it was before or after this, but brockie wrote a "D&D" adventure module similar in tone and content that was pretty drat good, so he's got some idea about how to put this poo poo into the printed word e2: the adventure was finished by someone else after brockie's death from an incomplete draft, and it seems to be a follow up to whargoul in some ways, so it might be worth discussing in the thread Arivia has a new favorite as of 17:53 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Arivia posted:i am very excited for this let's read because honestly i do have faith in dave brockie doing a really lurid pulp take on what whargoul's synopsis promised I think that was a Lamentations of the Flame Princess module and it was released posthumously. E: f;b
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Skulk Hogan posted:I think that was a Lamentations of the Flame Princess module and it was released posthumously. Yes, I just wasn't gonna explain what LotFP is to people who aren't immersed in D&D nerdlore. But yes, Towers Two was finished by someone else and it's a semi-sequel to Whargoul.
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We were kinda posting around each others edits there. Either way I didnt actually know that it was related to Whargoul though. I added that to my notes.
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Arivia posted:after brockie's death from an incomplete draft I love ambiguous modifiers
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idk that it's exactly terrible so far, just run of the mill airport thriller, but:quote:“Admiral Richard Ulysses Spartan stood in one corner of the metal platform, severely erect, gazing wordlessly at the scene around him.” 
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Yeah "airport thriller" is a pretty prefect description for Lincoln Child, I think they're pretty much all readable but nothing you'll ever write home about. Also I was so busy laughing at the name that it took me a bit to register the real lol
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Carthag Tuek posted:Severely erect Ughh, been there
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Commander Rambo Steelfist Schwarzenegger stood in one corner of the metal platform, wielding a terrifying erection.
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Gaius Sextus Sexhaver held his manhood and beheld the hooded man
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this prose is wildNoneMoreNegative posted:lol I was reading a thread of 'Cosmic Horror' recommendations and someone mentioned 'Oblivion in Flux', so I looked it up and read the preview you can get on Amazon from clicking the book cover. Man, the foreword itself is some middle-school-level puffery, but then the 'cyber prose' starts; it's so bad - like most folks I've thought Could I write a book? Nah, I don't have it in me but then you read something like this, apparently proofed, published and sold, and you think Huh. Carthag Tuek posted:that link tempted me, foolishly, and so i went and looked at the amazo web in real life, which was, quite, and also
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Stexils posted:Gaius Sextus Sexhaver held his manhood and beheld the hooded man *angrily crumples up manuscript*
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Admiral Richard Ulysses Spartan stood in one corner of the blasphemous cosmogony, severely erect, flapping his leathery appendage at the horizon.
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Carthag Tuek posted:this prose is wild Does CYBER PROSE mean it was written by a GPT bot? It has that sort of feel.
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Carthag Tuek posted:this prose is wild That there sure as gently caress are words. I recognize several of them.
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So I'm about 50 pages into Ready Player Two and poo poo this book is boring. To drat Cline with faint praise, his other two books had a certain momentum to their narratives. They were fun in the way a bad movie is fun. This time around it feels like Cline read all the criticisms. But instead of improving himself in any way, his stand-in MC spends multiple pages alternating between having a pity party and fantasizing about killing his critics.  EDIT: Does anyone know why my imgur pic isn't showing up on my post? I put the url between the img brackets. grittyreboot has a new favorite as of 03:04 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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grittyreboot posted:So I'm about 50 pages into Ready Player Two and poo poo this book is boring. To drat Cline with faint praise, his other two books had a certain momentum to their narratives. They were fun in the way a bad movie is fun.  You've gotta get the actual link to the image URL with a specific file extension, either by right clicking from a computer or long-pressing from a phone browser to see the image itself. Naturally imgur makes it needlessly obtuse to actually get to the images it hosts as an image-hosting platform. Also, lol
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grittyreboot posted:So I'm about 50 pages into Ready Player Two and poo poo this book is boring. To drat Cline with faint praise, his other two books had a certain momentum to their narratives. They were fun in the way a bad movie is fun. I promise, it gets worse.
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Few things are worse when a book gets savaged by a critic and the author thinks an appropriate response is to basically go "NO, gently caress YOU." in their next. Michael Crichton, or maybe a ghostwriter of his that he didn't properly edit, comes to mind. Some critic named Michael Crowley (?) tears apart State of Fear, which is anti climate change. In the next book, fittingly titled...well, Next, there's an offhand mention of a "Mick Crawley" who's been arrested for pedophile rape of an infant, which also notes that "thankfully" the vaginal damage was minimal because Crawley had an exceptionally small penis.
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Apparently David Drake was once offended by a critic named Charles Platt, who accused Drake of writing war porn and said he wouldn't do that if he'd seen actual combat. Ever since, every single Drake sci-fi book has had a character named Charles (or Charlie, or Chuck, etc.) Platt and hes always a contemptible villain. Ranging from petty corrupt bureaucrats to cringing murderous pedophiles. I guess what I am saying is, some people *really* know how to hold a grudge.
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wheatpuppy posted:Apparently David Drake was once offended by a critic named Charles Platt, who accused Drake of writing war porn and said he wouldn't do that if he'd seen actual combat. Ever since, every single Drake sci-fi book has had a character named Charles (or Charlie, or Chuck, etc.) Platt and hes always a contemptible villain. Ranging from petty corrupt bureaucrats to cringing murderous pedophiles. I guess what I am saying is, some people *really* know how to hold a grudge. That's particularly amusing because Drake is one of a handful of milSF authors who actually saw heavy combat (in Vietnam). It is amazing how many of those hard right Tom Kratman, John Ringo, as nauseum type of author who jerk themselves raw over war porn either never served at all or did so in completely non-combat roles.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:That's particularly amusing because Drake is one of a handful of milSF authors who actually saw heavy combat (in Vietnam). Also observable from the fact that war in Drake's novels is loving horrible and destroys its practitioners rather than ennobling them.
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Just dragged Dan Simmons's Illium across the finish line and dear god this book loving sucks. Some of the more memorable parts -MC rapes helen of troy at one point by impersonating paris, helen then decides she prefers her rapist -9/11 is mentioned no less than 10 times as being the worst thing in history -Muslims are solely responsible for ongoing jewish ethnic cleansing campaigns -"Ill wear your _____ for garters" gets repeated no less than 6 times -action scenes pointlessly padded out in ways that make you want to pull your hair out -The few women that are in the book are just around to be hosed or act like complete psychopaths It's such a creative concept but completely ruined and not worth reading at all. Hope this helps dissuade other people from ever picking up this book
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Did the first book explain that the killbots were engineered to target Jews or was that not revealed until book two? Because that's a thing.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Just dragged Dan Simmons's Illium across the finish line and dear god this book loving sucks. Some of the more memorable parts I thought I'd recognized the author's name, I read Song of Kali by him ages ago. It's....about what you'd expect for a white dude writing about a white dude traveling to India and uncovering mysteries about a secret death cult, especially being written back in the 80s. Which is to say, don't bother with it.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Did the first book explain that the killbots were engineered to target Jews or was that not revealed until book two? Because that's a thing. I had some kind of an inkling about that when they all went to an empty post-apocalyptic Jerusalem and there were loudspeakers blasting "KILL THE JEWS" in Arabic. I checked in on the goodreads.com page for book 2 yeah it goes way beyond just making killbots to kill the jews. poo poo is hosed wish I could unread this one and go back to what it was in my imagination
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:oh I left out the worst part.... ahem this is the Terrible writing thread!  also it put me in mind of this I clipped from some book of collected histories ages back  always put your chainmail underpants on before entering battle.
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chitoryu12 posted:I promise, it gets worse. Has anyone done a Let's Read for Ready Player Two, as you did for the first one?
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ScienceSeagull posted:Has anyone done a Let's Read for Ready Player Two, as you did for the first one? I'm doing it after I finish my Twilight thread. It's going to be....detailed.
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ScienceSeagull posted:Has anyone done a Let's Read for Ready Player Two, as you did for the first one? The 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back podcast did it. The first 372 pages referring to RP1, ofc. I much prefer listening to them suffer, rather than inflicting it on myself.
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