Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

ArtIsResistance posted:

As a grown adult, can anyone share tips for stopping people from bullying you for reading a book for children?

Book sock and call it a textbook. Conversely, a fake cover of a raunchy romance.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
The only match I saw involved guys running around with broomsticks between their legs, smacking themselves in the balls occasionally while they tossed...balls...around. Looked fun though.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

rchandra posted:

It's called "Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness", and reminded me a lot of the Ender's Shadow books (not an endorsement per se). It's worth reading if you read quickly and don't have a lot of things to do.
Under no circumstances should you read its sequel, "Sluagh" -- it's written by the same author, but feels much more like a fanfic, and contains rape and sexual torture mixed with some real-life politics.

Do not read this story, it is written by a professional con artist named Andy "Thanfiction." Just Google the name and you'll find his rap sheet which involves an actual cult, lots of stolen money, and actually getting a woman killed by convincing her to embezzle from her mentally unstable husband.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep

icantfindaname posted:

Did people really care about LotR when it was published? Tolkein was just an old crazy British guy writing fanfiction about Norse mythology, not yet a beloved nerd icon.

Tolkien's popularity got so intense that he had Americans calling his house in the middle of the night and British hippies literally camped on his lawn. It was a big deal.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
Yeah, she sends them to Australia. She's basically a mad professor at that point.

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
Maybe she screwed up the Memory Charm and her parents are vegetables...

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

HIJK
Nov 25, 2012
in the room where you sleep
...I actually preferred Serious Dumbledore. It kept the gravity of the series in sight.

  • Locked thread