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I read 20% of Ender's Game before giving up this time. I'm making progress. (still at 7% on Wise Man's Fear after, what, 3 years?)
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Jun 14, 2013 14:42
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The ender series is not as bad as the call of earth series, I somehow read both, shamefully. One of the later Ender books has a story line pretty similar to Bran's Warging Into Trees thing, kinda suspiciously similar.
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Jun 14, 2013 14:46
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And I want to point out that according to GRRM in the ADWD prologue chapter 'Warging' is only when the animal/recipient is a wolf.
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Jun 14, 2013 14:47
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The preferred term for controlling Hodor is "Hogarthing."
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Jun 14, 2013 15:16
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I too would gently caress Richard Madden. He's the folksy football announcer right?
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Jun 14, 2013 16:01
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I read 20% of Ender's Game before giving up this time. My girlfriend has been tearing through that book, says it's one of the best books she's ever read. She mostly reads Yasmine Galenorn and Kelley Armstrong. 
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Jun 14, 2013 16:01
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:My girlfriend has been tearing through that book, says it's one of the best books she's ever read. She mostly reads Yasmine Galenorn and Kelley Armstrong. As long as she's read A Game of Bones, I think everything will be alright.
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Jun 14, 2013 16:05
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Knuc If U Buck posted:I know this is the book reader's thread, but seriously?
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Jun 14, 2013 16:47
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Man I didn't even ever read Ender's Game and that was like a requirement to be a basement-dwelling nerd growing up where I live.
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Jun 14, 2013 16:49
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Contra Calculus posted:Man I didn't even ever read Ender's Game and that was like a requirement to be a basement-dwelling nerd growing up where I live. It's required summer reading in most schools down in South Florida.
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Jun 14, 2013 19:46
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Ender's Game is a good book, it's just that it was written by a complete rear end in a top hat. This is what libraries are for.
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Jun 14, 2013 21:26
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Ender is a loving psychopath who beats multiple people to death with his bare hands but its ok because, Well actually it's not ok.
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Jun 14, 2013 21:44
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Smiling Jack posted:Ender is a loving psychopath who beats multiple people to death with his bare hands but its ok because, But they all totally deserved it and if he didn't do it then they'd come back and try and hurt him again 
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Jun 14, 2013 21:52
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IRQ posted:This is what libraries are for. No, libraries are for illicit smooching in the encyclopedia section on the third floor. God, didn't you learn anything in law school?
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Jun 14, 2013 22:04
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emanresu tnuocca posted:And I want to point out that according to GRRM in the ADWD prologue chapter 'Warging' is only when the animal/recipient is a wolf. So when the eagle guy was doing it they called it... Earging? How does this work.
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Jun 14, 2013 22:31
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just 'skin changing'.
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Jun 14, 2013 22:37
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The GRRM is ten pounds of poo poo in a SaviourX posted:Yo, you want to know about life down on the corners of Lotus Port? Slinging that poppy milk? About the boys touting Poppy-Pop, Pirate's Delight, Arbor Fine, all that? Trying to sell poo poo to the fiends that they don't even need 'cause it's all the princes left to us? This owns so hard.
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Jun 14, 2013 23:01
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:No, libraries are for illicit smooching in the encyclopedia section on the third floor. God, didn't you learn anything in law school? You've never met a girl in law school. Hint: you have to be certifiably insane to go to law school. That's actually all I learned at law school! 
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Jun 14, 2013 23:05
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Why would you read Ender's Game at your advanced age when there are actual books you could be reading? I hope you didn't spend any money on it. The author is a massive horrible shithead and the books are pretty bad. I would suck the poo poo out of GURM's dick before I gave OSC a dime of my money or any kind of positive attention whatsoever. If you've already seen the trailer to the movie then the ending has been spoiled for you. Put it down. Here's the best line: quote:SOMEBODY DANCE ON YOUR HEAD, MAMA. SOMEBODY EATED YOUR FACE. -Actual dialogue from Hugo Award Winning novel Ender's Game.
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Jun 14, 2013 23:25
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Enders Game is about an autistic loser who's good at playing laser tag. The end. Oh and it's in space.
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Jun 14, 2013 23:29
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Hey now, don't poo poo on a novel because the author's a shitheel. poo poo on it because it's a terrible loving novel.
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Jun 14, 2013 23:30
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Not My Goodies posted:If you've already seen the trailer to the movie then the ending has been spoiled for you. Put it down. This is a bad argument. Of course Ender wins. It's a summer action film aimed at children. You'd have to be some kind of moron to, even without any prior knowledge of the story, think "oh poo poo, are they going to win?!" So why bother hiding it? It has some pretty pew pew visuals to draw in the kiddies. (Deploying the Doctor isn't even the real point of the ending anyway, as you would know.) The real problem with the Ender's Game promo material is how they're aiming it squarely at book-readers and don't give a poo poo about trying to bring in new people. The tagline is one of the most memorable things from the book, but is garbage without the context. "The enemy's gate is down" is not an enticing line to give you a hint about the movie at all. Besides, the real stuff the movie trailers haven't spoiled yet is Ender and Alai's homosexual relationship.
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Jun 14, 2013 23:49
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Of course I didn't pay for it. I prefer to not have my money go to the Mormon Nazi division of the tea party's Homosexual Eradication branch.
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Jun 15, 2013 00:15
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Not My Goodies posted:Why would you read Ender's Game at your advanced age when there are actual books you could be reading? I hope you didn't spend any money on it. The author is a massive horrible shithead and the books are pretty bad. I would suck the poo poo out of GURM's dick before I gave OSC a dime of my money or any kind of positive attention whatsoever. Don't forget to cup his balls because, after reading that quote, Ender's Game is now on my "to read" list.
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Jun 15, 2013 00:19
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whowhatwhere posted:Hey now, don't poo poo on a novel because the author's a shitheel. poo poo on it because it's a terrible loving novel. What in the hell.
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Jun 15, 2013 00:52
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Knuc If U Buck posted:I know this is the book reader's thread, but seriously? Crossover fanfic is a staple of a WildCard diet.
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Jun 15, 2013 01:00
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:This is a bad argument. Of course Ender wins. It's a summer action film aimed at children. You'd have to be some kind of moron to, even without any prior knowledge of the story, think "oh poo poo, are they going to win?!" So why bother hiding it? It has some pretty pew pew visuals to draw in the kiddies. (Deploying the Doctor isn't even the real point of the ending anyway, as you would know.) They're aiming it squarely at fans of The Hunger Games. A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Of course I didn't pay for it. I prefer to not have my money go to the Mormon Nazi division of the tea party's Homosexual Eradication branch. poo poo, I bought every book from Ender's Game to Ender's Shadow and read them all when I was way too old to know better. I mean, I got hooked when I was 10 or so but even in my early twenties I should have known better. Someone posted a bunch of web articles in the YOPSOS sci-fi thread that were absolutely scathing indictments of various degrees and I felt like a huge chump after reading those. I even had an inkling of why the gross Others/enemies were called 'buggers' when I was in middle school but kept plowing through them. On a lighter note, someone in the Mensa thread had an interesting observation that got plowed under in a discussion about magic and racism, and magical racism: EmptyVessel posted:This might have been pointed out before, but GRRM may have planted a big clue to Dany's agenda in her house words.
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Jun 15, 2013 01:03
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Dany will place a middle-aged man in a sweater vest in the centre court of every mall in Westeros, and in this way collect taxes willingly from the peasantry?
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Jun 15, 2013 01:17
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IRQ posted:What in the hell. This article gets at the major problems with the book.
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AtAt-de-fay posted:Don't forget to cup his balls because, after reading that quote, Ender's Game is now on my "to read" list. Did you really pull that quote for your avatar just now? Fair warning, OSC is twice the pedophile GURM is. The kids spend half the book naked being uncomfortably physical with one another. Ender kills a kid by crushing his testicles as they wrestle in the shower. Blade_of_tyshalle posted:This is a bad argument. Of course Ender wins. It's a summer action film aimed at children. You'd have to be some kind of moron to, even without any prior knowledge of the story, think "oh poo poo, are they going to win?!" So why bother hiding it? It has some pretty pew pew visuals to draw in the kiddies. (Deploying the Doctor isn't even the real point of the ending anyway, as you would know.) The twist isn't that he wins, it's that there's a space battle going on at all. That's the gut punch at the end, the whole point of the story. Ender is Hitler Jesus Oppenheimer Skywalker. E: If/when the GURM expires before finishing the series I hope they give it to OSC just so I can read a thread so bad it threatens to blot out the sun. Sexgun Rasputin fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jun 15, 2013 |
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Did you really think they wouldn't show that, though? Again, summer scifi blockbuster.
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Welcome to Battle Scherf.
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So, I haven't been following since shortly after the abject failure of ADWD : has there been any signs of him working on anything at all, ever? Like, even mowing the loving lawn or something. Checking his e-mail inbox. Anything. Or, even better : has he died of poo poo-cock? Lemoncakes?
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Jun 15, 2013 05:14
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He's apparently got "1500 pages" of TWOW done. So, y'know. I'm sure we'll get it in a year or three.
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Jun 15, 2013 05:18
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Xiahou Dun posted:So, I haven't been following since shortly after the abject failure of ADWD : has there been any signs of him working on anything at all, ever? Like, even mowing the loving lawn or something. Checking his e-mail inbox. Anything. There's a couple of sample chapters floating around the internet. They're alright, but they were all originally written for ADWD and there's no actual evidence he's written anything but football commentary since 2011. He's edited some Wild Cards stuff and has supposedly contributed short stories to a few different collections, most awesomely one with Joe Abercrombie and Clive Barker among others. Go read Imajica, fantasy nerds. Clive Barker knows how to meander with panache.
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Jun 15, 2013 05:45
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You take that back. As a civil service if nothing else. Imajica is utter and complete poo poo. And this is coming from somebody that managed to get through the first 5 sequels to The Black Company books. Why would you touch that poo poo when Tim Powers or anyone decent is still alive?
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Jun 15, 2013 05:54
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I wonder if HBO added a bonus for if he finished the next books by given dates.
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Jun 15, 2013 06:00
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Xiahou Dun posted:You take that back. As a civil service if nothing else. I will not take it back. It's imaginative and unconventional if a little bloated. It's also finished which automatically makes it better than ASOIAF. I've never read any Tim Powers but it looks like he writes jaunty adventure books, which isn't even remotely comparable to Imajica's dreamlike metaphysical fuckery. E: I'll check out Anubis Gates though that looks pretty rad.
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Anubis Gates is what I meant in particular : it is really, really kicking rad. I was a couple minute late for teaching once because I chose to read it in my office over, you know, walking or whatever. On Stranger Tides is also amazing. They both, however, lack a loving ghost or whatever watching two people gently caress in a library and pretending you give any fucks, so it won't have that Imajica feel.
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