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a.p. dent posted:i will never understand how snow crash got popular. it's trash!! (i didn't read it until i was in my twenties, maybe that was the issue) i thought it was an okay pulp novel and a clever fanfic parody until i realized he was mostly serious
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Mar 23, 2023 16:26
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the magic powers of linguistic isolates means that basque people are essentially battle mages.
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a.p. dent posted:i will never understand how snow crash got popular. it's trash!! (i didn't read it until i was in my twenties, maybe that was the issue) I didn’t like it much either tbh and I read it in high school. Dr. Fishopolis posted:i thought it was an okay pulp novel and a clever fanfic parody until i realized he was mostly serious This is what bugged me the most. I went through almost 3/4 of the novel assuming most of it was tongue in cheek and turns out, it wasn’t.
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Mar 23, 2023 16:34
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reading is less quick than watching tv
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Frank Frank posted:I didn’t like it much either tbh and I read it in high school. lol apparently i made it four fourths through the novel without realizing that. dudes a pizza delivery guy named hiro protagonist it had to be a joke
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copy posted:dudes a pizza delivery guy named hiro protagonist …that has a car that appears to be on fire when viewed in someone’s rear view mirror making them get out of the way so he can deliver pizzas faster (Still not a joke)
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i read the entire baroque cycle in high school. now you know why I'm the way I am
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my main context for snow crash is that episode of party down where kyle gets cast as vitaly chernobyl (which he cannot pronounce) and roman gets really mad about it
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Mar 23, 2023 17:01
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I only read the first two I think? Up until the one that ends with the male protag getting ganged up on by his nerd friends and forcibly undergoes 17th century surgery for his kidney stone. That's when I went "Ok, that's enough Stephenson for me, thanks!"
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Cthulu Carl posted:I only read the first two I think? Up until the one that ends with the male protag getting ganged up on by his nerd friends and forcibly undergoes 17th century surgery for his kidney stone. That's when I went "Ok, that's enough Stephenson for me, thanks!" love to read about our hero Jack Shaftoe and his syphilitic dick rotting off or w/e
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Fritz the Horse posted:love to read about our hero Jack Shaftoe and his syphilitic dick rotting off or w/e "Half-cocked" Jack is a pretty funny name though, tbf
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snow crash was great until the author decided to have a graphic scene of a 15 year old getting drunk and having sex with an old man.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:23
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Stux posted:reading is less quick than watching tv In a book it can say 'they've been walking around for hours', and you can read it in a second, but then they make a movie, and they literally show how they walk around for hours.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:35
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Paladinus posted:In a book it can say 'they've been walking around for hours', and you can read it in a second, but then they make a movie, and they literally show how they walk around for hours. I mean sometimes, the guys who made Game of Thrones gave ZERO fucks about that lol
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Mar 23, 2023 17:37
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Paladinus posted:In a book it can say 'they've been walking around for hours', and you can read it in a second, but then they make a movie, and they literally show how they walk around for hours. Tolkien wrote 4* books about characters walking for hours
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Not true. Sometimes they stopped to sing a song.
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CyberPingu posted:Tolkien wrote 4* books about characters walking for hours That's the thing. They've been actually walking for months!
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and I would walk five hundred miles and I would walk five hundred more just to be the man who walked a thousand miles and crossed into Mordor
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CyberPingu posted:Tolkien wrote 4* books about characters walking for hours Dudes love walking it's true
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Walking simulators PFFT
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wait snow crash wasn't parody?
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Paladinus posted:That's the thing. They've been actually walking for months! In the books, 17 years pass between Bilbo's farewell party and Gandalf returning to the Shire to tell Frodo about the ring lol.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:In the books, 17 years pass between Bilbo's farewell party and Gandalf returning to the Shire to tell Frodo about the ring lol. thats called world building
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Mar 23, 2023 20:16
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Pablo Nergigante posted:In the books, 17 years pass between Bilbo's farewell party and Gandalf returning to the Shire to tell Frodo about the ring lol. He just didn’t want to be around short people
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skasion posted:He just didn’t want to be around short people They got no reason to live (Jeffrey is secretly Randy Newman)
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literature is ftw because you can have one bed-ridden dude be like “I used to go to bed early”, eat some cake or whatever and suddenly there’s 3000 pages of everything from art, social life and snobs to how bitches be crazy
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Pablo Nergigante posted:In the books, 17 years pass between Bilbo's farewell party and Gandalf returning to the Shire to tell Frodo about the ring lol. There's a whole TV show about what was only briefly alluded to in the books. And they'll probably make another show about what was going on during those 17 years.
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ulvir posted:literature is ftw because you can have one bed-ridden dude be like “I used to go to bed early”, eat some cake or whatever and suddenly there’s 3000 pages of everything from art, social life and snobs to how bitches be crazy hell yeah now what do i do with this perfect creature i found 
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Paladinus posted:In a book it can say 'they've been walking around for hours', and you can read it in a second, but then they make a movie, and they literally show how they walk around for hours. and yet book is still slower than watching. makes you think
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Psycho Landlord posted:wait It's definitely tongue in cheek.
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Stux posted:
and c.s lewis knows he cant beat me and he's not even going to try
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:and c.s lewis knows he cant beat me and he's not even going to try you once and future king
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I've started reading Shadow and Claw: Volumes 1 and 2 of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and it kicks rear end.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I've started reading Shadow and Claw: Volumes 1 and 2 of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and it kicks rear end. yup they’re loving awesome
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the best thing is you have 4 absolute classics ahead and then when you finish you can read the book of the long sun which is like 95% as good
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I've started reading Shadow and Claw: Volumes 1 and 2 of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and it kicks rear end. fukc yeah
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snow trash. that book suckedPablo Nergigante posted:I've started reading Shadow and Claw: Volumes 1 and 2 of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and it kicks rear end. added to the list
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I've started reading Shadow and Claw: Volumes 1 and 2 of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe and it kicks rear end. nice. then do fifth head of cerberus if u havent already
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