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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Crichton could be godawful but all his imitators and followers are even worse. Can't read a goddamn thriller nowadays without the capital-H Heroes being Spec Ops Delta Tier One Operators who are sad because they killed some folks, but maybe they can learn to live again with the help of a fiery Italian/Latina woman. Tried to read a goddamn bigfoot novel and the prologue was that Bigfoot tried to save Anastasia Romanov from the communists, and then in the modern day those goddamn evil Russians were at it again and only a black budget CIA squad can save the world. Everything has to be jammed into this stupid framework. 9/11 really did break so many old peoples brains
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Jose posted:Some absolutely incredible entries Le Guin stans stay winning
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a fatguy baldspot posted:what about Nabokov?? guy is clearly a pedophile i'm guessing she hasn't read him.
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Famous racist, Sherman Alexie.
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Jose posted:Some absolutely incredible entries I guess Orson Scott Card isn't all bad.
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Weka posted:I guess Orson Scott Card isn't all bad. lol
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Epic High Five posted:How the hell is Heinlein not on that lol nothing in "to sail beyond the sunset" is at all problematic
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Weka posted:I guess Orson Scott Card isn't all bad. lol
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Crichton could be godawful but all his imitators and followers are even worse. Can't read a goddamn thriller nowadays without the capital-H Heroes being Spec Ops Delta Tier One Operators who are sad because they killed some folks, but maybe they can learn to live again with the help of a fiery Italian/Latina woman. Tried to read a goddamn bigfoot novel and the prologue was that Bigfoot tried to save Anastasia Romanov from the communists, and then in the modern day those goddamn evil Russians were at it again and only a black budget CIA squad can save the world. Everything has to be jammed into this stupid framework. What book is that please.
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Kitfox88 posted:What book is that please. edit: I was wrong, it's lobster shirt posted:the bible
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Jose posted:Some absolutely incredible entries
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:He was on a roll in the early 90s with that and Disclosure, the story about what if a man got sexually harassed huh, did that just blow your mind? She doesn't give you a boner? Because, you know, l definitely have lift-off. What about you? You got a woody? She's very nice. -l'll tell you what the company line is. -Don't do that. You have a sexual urge every 20 minutes. lt's a physiological certainty. lt's hard-wired into your limbic brain. You can't fight it. Why would you want to? Live a little. Ten years from now, you'll need a forklift to get a hard-on. -Ha-ha-ha. l'll call you. -l'm counting the minutes. [ALL LAUGHlNG]
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GoodDogGamer/status/1560391290155544576?t=2WGu1qKfpaJnJRonPBVDFA&s=19 what did they do
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lobster shirt posted:what did they do I thought they did away with mandatory racial stat bonus/penalties but it looks like they're back?
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GoodDogGamer/status/1560391290155544576?t=2WGu1qKfpaJnJRonPBVDFA&s=19 he’s right
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lobster shirt posted:what did they do realized what orcs are a stand-in for
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lobster shirt posted:what did they do Made Russians a playable race.
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lobster shirt posted:nothing in "to sail beyond the sunset" is at all problematic And Farnham's Freehold is well before its time in its treatment of race in a post-apocalyptic future.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:And Farnham's Freehold is well before its time in its treatment of race in a post-apocalyptic future. Sixth Column is a goddamn nightmare of racism, but it seems like it never gets talked about when discussing Heinlein.
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lobster shirt posted:the bible lmao Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:
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One More Fat Nerd posted:https://twitter.com/borgposting/status/1559163216374243329?s=20&t=mLViCcKoODqfrWcaRHVg4A I choose burger
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:He was on a roll in the early 90s with that and Disclosure, the story about what if a man got sexually harassed huh, did that just blow your mind? I don't remember Airframe enough to say if it was amusingly bad or just boring. Airframe has a weird scene where the main character has bruises from falling facefirst into a safety net, but some makeup artist is insistent that she was obviously beaten by her husband and is lying to protect him. So that's three nineties Crichton books with a man wrongly accused of gendered violence.
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Chamale posted:Airframe has a weird scene where the main character has bruises from falling facefirst into a safety net, but some makeup artist is insistent that she was obviously beaten by her husband and is lying to protect him. So that's three nineties Crichton books with a man wrongly accused of gendered violence. guy had 5 wives. who knows why though. maybe he just liked finding a new bar a lot. quote:Joan Radam (m. 1965; div. 1970)
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lobster shirt posted:i do not remember a graphic depiction of sexual assault in the dresden files though, what's the deal with that. it has been a while since i read them though. The scene with his vampire ex reasonably falls in that category. Also, pretty much everything involving any of the Raiths.
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DirtyRobot posted:deleted. did they already get outed as a Du Pont / Siemens / IG Farben intern? e: oh that's the list of ideologically disapproved books/authors https://twitter.com/the_binp/status/1560394938906542081
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vyelkin posted:my favourite Crichton is his 2004 book State of Fear in which global warming is fake and made up by eco-terrorists who stage fake natural disasters to kill millions of people and Crichton includes footnotes and an angry essay where he explains that no this isn't just a fiction book he really believes that climate change is comparable to eugenics and Lysenkoism, and also the book's climax takes place on a Pacific island where cannibals eat one of the environmentalist characters This was my favorite hate read of Michael Crichton because its just so aggressively stupid lol.
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i flunked out posted:This was my favorite hate read of Michael Crichton because its just so aggressively stupid lol. He was a piece of poo poo but the guy could post
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Sixth Column is a goddamn nightmare of racism, but it seems like it never gets talked about when discussing Heinlein.
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