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i'm just gonna cross-post what i put at the idiot at social media thread because this loving comicThe Saddest Rhino posted:So i discovered this guy tried to sell a comic for MYR10 (USD 3 equivalent) to fund his trip to Nepal (which didn't work out) and put it out for free
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the audiobook for WWZ was pretty good with different voice actors for different stories. It was of course zombie apocalypse blah blah zombies are out of fashion blah blah but at the time it was actually fresh and not yet another zombie survival book. the movie was terrible though and had almost nothing to do with the book.
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Sleeveless posted:I'm pretty sre that most of the "fans" of WWZ have never actually read the book and are just going off of the title and general "woo zombies you are a terrible poster with a strange aggressive attitude that sparks of anger problems, and projections of your own life failings onto other people by virtue of their subjective taste in media items which are of little interest to you. perhaps, consider therapy.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:These threads always make me want to start writing again, because even though I have maybe a thousand hours of writing to go before I would even submit something to CC for critique, I know I will never be as bad as some of these authors. 22 Eargesplitten posted:Oh, I know. It's just too low on my priority list to do tight now. Once I finish school in 5 months, probably. lol @ this failson for thinking there's time to write when u start work. chortling at my desk kneedeep in wet spreadsheets and contracts to vet through. they are wet from my tears
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Nanomashoes posted:Isn't this the climax of a novel about a painting fucker that also fucks like van goghs and matisses? i forgot to respond to this but yes
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Sleeveless posted:The Saddest Rhino sighed as he drew his blind Japanese master's anti-zombie katana... what a silly insult, since anime is bad
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 check this book cover out Piers Anthony Self-Insert (PASI): yo unicorn i wanna do some fancy rear end fencing Unicorn: pls put protective gear on PASI: no PASI: cause i fence like i sex Unicorn: that is disconcerting also it gives me many suspicions that u will sex me at some point even if i do not consent PASI: no PASI: i mean yes PASI: much like when ur mouth says no ur eyes say yes PASI: i have a hat now Unicorn: that is not PASI: fight me in this book PASI starts off in an alien planet where he is a serf/slave/Untouchable. what that means is he is disallowed clothes. what however that also means is PASI goes about having sex in public because nudity means your erection gets rock hard evyertime you see another untouchable. it's untold but his character biography should probably include at least 1-200 public rapes by the way PASI is a short dood who is respected for being a Gamesman. you are thinking "lol he is into The Game and that is not surprising at all for a Piers Anthony book" well u r wrong, he just rides horses. it's important to note that he really likes horses to an inordinate and almost unhealthy degree i think he has sex with a sexbot that protects him while he escapes into anotehr dimension. however that may be another Piers Anthony book. guess i should google search that PA at [url posted:http://www.hipiers.com/12feb.html[/url]] fair enough, i stand corrected. i assume the interesting part is the man she loves actually raped her into loving her, but who knows, Piers! he is a man who surprises (with sex) anyway off goes PASI toodle-y-doo to the magic world which is dark ages as poo poo and a horse appears. i mean a unicorn. by the way, a unicorn's horn signifies virility, like the erect penis of a nude man the caste system does not apply in this world, which is a confusing thing because, dark ages? hello? hate these zero effort no-research-done books anyway our PASI dudebro goes ride that horse, in a non-sexual way of course thank goodness. can't be raping horse on the offset. unicorn. so he rides the unicorn and the unicorn is like "no" and tries to kill him but he's like i'm a Gamesman therefore u will submit to my will. actually i correct myself, it's kinda non-consensual. anyway he rode the unicorn enough (a female btw) that the unicorn decides that her being unable to unseat him means she needs to respect him. i mean fall in love with him. I do not understand this but love works in mysterious ways in this world. so yeah he sat his pasty short white naked rear end on her back so long that she thinks "this is what love is like" and i'm all yep, tq then he says, wow unicorn u r very sexy, like how nice your hide is and your hooves and i'm like is this a furry porn novel so the unicorn turns into a beautiful nude lady then they gently caress they gently caress offscreen thank god the book tells me this loving is really magical and beautiful so i had to stop reading, because i was crying so hard anyway that is a bad book i do not recommend, do not buy or read this book. also do not buy that novella he mentioned even though it's on amazon kindle and everything. also, pls do not rape people or horses. thanks that's my review
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Is that what made you the saddest rhino? not really, there are many factors btw i wish to dispel the notion that i am just jealous of the unicorn in the book for being a fabulous lanky version of a rhino. the book is bad, pure and simple. that the book by virtue of featuring a unicorn in a prominent role and many praises being lavished on it being thin and sexy is bodyshaming against rhinos, is beside the point hashtag bodypositive; and hashtag fatisbeautiful
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Inspector Gesicht posted:That bitch tragic story of a nerd babbyboy loving destroyed by the feminist agenda, tears fall down now
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Practical Demon posted:Orson Scott Card my fav thing is OSC being accused of writing Ender's Game as  Hitler apologia http://peachfront.diaryland.com/enderhitlte.html
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Post Your Favorite (or Request) > PYF terrible book as long as it was written by Ernest Cline ignoring the tribute to the 80s (it was acceptable in the 80s; it was acceptable at the time) of Cline's novels, reading the summaries of RP1 and Armada really reminded me of the books by Stephen Gould. u may remember him as the writer of the YA novel which turned into the not-at-all successful movie, Jumper i read Jumper and Wildside as a teen and these are some things i remember, without cheating and referring to wikipedia or some inevitable stephengould.wikia dot com Jumper a nerdy kid, i.e. u the audience stand-in, discovers he can teleport. i don't recall how he discovered it, probably some "hmm, imma think about this sick place" and boom. he calls this "jumping" because teleporting sounds less cool and involves more than one syllable. i think at one point it's described like he just vanishes like a tv movie with zero production values (caveat i have not watched the movie or its trailer and i assume there are special effects. pls don't correct me) the kid develops a weird objectivist set of values in that "ok, the bank stores money... and if the bank loses money, the banks have to pay them back out of their pockets, and the customers aren't affected... so i should steal from banks!" he spends the first part of the book just jumping into bank vaults and stealing money like a video game protagonist running into people's houses to break vases. he is also super clever in avoiding cctvs and stuff and blah blah, because being an idiot dipshit child who uses his powers for selfish purposes requires intelligence, and cunning anyway after lots of talent-squandering-for-self-important-purposes, he watches tv and oh my, terrorism exists! so he says ok i will be selfless now, i will capture terrorists! this book was written in the 90s and tbf, the public consciousness is not well-educated with this idea of a grey area between freedom fighters and terrorism. but anway it was a p dumb plot which i don't think was used in the movie he catches these terrorists through his teleporting means, then he teleports them to a cliff and drops them. they scream like an idiot being dropped off a tall cliff for a long while before he teleports mid-fall and then BANG! send them to the clifftop again. then he keeps throwing them until they pee and poo poo themselves dry and will not do the naughty terrorist things again and then he sends them to the cia/fbi/government agency i forgot the resolution to that, or the whole book even i do remember one thing though: there was a hot supermodel. this super hot supermodel was on tv and he's like "imma go and teleport to where she is, kidnap her and then when she's stuck alone with me with nowhere out, i'll seduce her with my charms and make her LOVE ME" which is of loving course exactly what he did. anyway that was how jumper had a story involving a young man who threatened a beautiful lady with his powers and made her a sexual victim Wildside i cannot quite recall this book. i remember it had a kickass yellow cover of a puma jumping out at you. i was also very in my young teens when i read it and thought black t-shirts with dragons were appropriate attire. my friend borrowed the book and lost it. i think i may forgive him one day because the book was not very good so Wildside is, once again, a story about a young nerd i.e. audience you getting a miracle handed to him on a silver platter with nary any effort put into on his part i think the young nerd goes to the basement of his dad's house or something, and discovers a portal. THe portal goes to some alternate universe (it wasn't fully explaiend), but it was basically Jurassic World The Real Thing, Without The Park. it's dangerous as poo poo but our nerd has SURVIVAL SKILLS so he metal gear solided his way out of the place back into the mundane real world I think Jurassic Park was released at the time of this book? Maybe that's why i picked it up. dinosaurs are rad i dont' recall dinosaurs were in the book yeah maybe that's why the book isn't rad anyway he's like, how can this portal enrich me in any way? i know, i'll start learning how to use firearms, buy a bunch of guns, and hunt innocent jurassic era animals (like the sabre tooth tiger) and sell their stuff for profit ok, i'll get some of my friends to go with me, including the Hot Girl Who Will Fall In Love With Me If We Get Stuck And There Is No Way To Get Out Without My Assistance then one of the friends who was mad at him for idiot young people friendship reasons inevitably leaked the news and the military/fbi/cia come to spoil the fun. and the protag is like, haha, guess who has the experience of playing this world too many times and have enough knowledge to write the GameFAQS wiki for it. so yeah the more well-trained people with less experience about Jurassic World gets eaten up. Then he fucks the Hot Girl. the end and thats the story of Wildwide, involving a guy who once again uses his powers to threaten a young woman into having sex with him. i think that's a pattern with S.Gould books. thats all
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    tbf my grades improved after i read it
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Klaus88 posted:The only acceptable Gaiman cameo was the one in the Simpsons. excuse me but what does it feel like being in the Kingdom of Wrong 
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Antivehicular posted:I heard this about Hannibal and Hannibal Rising, and I refuse to not believe them, because the concept of the otherwise competent Thomas Harris intending those novels as serious works gives me hives. I don't know about HR but the story behind Hannibal was he just pooped up in front of the agent and dumped a manuscript on him, unasked. Sorry about your hives
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i don't know anything about Wicked except Defying Gravity is a p good song to listen to when you need a pick-me-up
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chuck tingle books are okay, and not terrible
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Sleeveless posted:Calling them authors and the things they create books is giving them way too much credit. people who write books you dislike can still be authors these people on tumblr aren't: http://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/12/24/writer-says-you-have-to-write-to-be-a-writer-tumblr-gets-upset
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plsd to meet u, im a rhino
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:like the man who was involved in the same child-kidnapping supersoldier program that Traviss hates the fictional character of Halsey for leading and tases one of the children in his first appearance in the first novel but makes sure to tell her what a bad person she is. 
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malal posted:Throughout the entire book her motivation was to run and hide. I'm fuzzy on the details, but it was like the ending to Hannibal but much, much worse. Hannibal the movie isn't very good, but one of the few things I'm grateful for is the absolute omission of a lobotomised/sedated Clarice Starling being made Hannibal's pet bride to bring to watch classy operas.
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The easiest bit of House of Leaves to read is the Navidson Record, all the formatting stuff can get really dumb but it works most of the time. The Johnny Truant backstory is confusing af to read. Ignore all the footnotes if it's referring to other people/works, they're all made up. E: Which twist ending are we referring to? The Zampano is a made up character by Johnny Truant and all his friends he referred to had been dead the whole time or Navidson comes out of the house worse for wear and there really isn't much of a resolution, other than the family getting back together and that's it?
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True, also the Whalestoe/Pelafina Letters (and the supplement book) are good reads on their own. They are about JT's mom going more and more insane as she's stuck in an asylum sending hopeless letters to her son.
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lenoon posted:I quite like House of Leaves, but it's pretty much my proxy for "you need to read more" when someone says it's their favourite book. good. tell us what the other books to be read.
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lenoon posted:Hey, it's a good book. But really, out of everything, all books, your favourite is a fairly adequate post-modern-but-not-in-a-challenging-way book of fairly middling quality in all respects? Great if it's your favourite, I'm just wondering why. There's better versions of the same thing, they just tend to be a bit less accessible. I said "tell us what books to read" not "defend your position", good job with the reading comprehension
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I want his recommendations.
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Ah, actually I misread and thought you meant "It's like Finnegan's Wake and A Soft Machine, which are for edgy teens", sorry about that E: tbh I just had a conversation previously in another avenue where someone said "read more" and absolutely cannot deliver when I asked them "what", so I thought it was a repetition of the pattern.
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https://gumroad.com/l/GirlCorrupted posted:A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!  quote:Table of Contents quote:Foreword
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I bought a self published book from a website that barely bothers to moderate the quality of people's mostly amateurish output, how on earth could it be bad???
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divabot posted:Is there a thread for authors who've started publishing fanfic of their own characters? I'm thinking here of Lois McMaster Bujold, who now writes the finest AO3-grade WAFF and gets Baen to publish it. The book in question is Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, the new Vorkosigan. It's perfectly lovely AO3 WAFF! Slice of life, nothing happens (really, nothing happens) and people get laid! I suppose after thirty years you get to like these characters and tire of torturing literary value out of them. But holy poo poo. I don't understand most of this post
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Some ex-tropers formed an offsite forum where they talked about their problems with TvTropes. SA came up sometimes, and a few of the ex-tropers talked about posters on the mock thread they liked or disliked. I don't remember any of this :o Also they used to call me the arbiter of acceptability for some reason but it was p funny On books has anyone read The Girl On the Train. It's not awful but lol its plot is generally Protagonist : I should not do the wrong thing Protagonist: I'll do it anyway!!!! Everyone: wtf ! Protagonist: oh poo poo that was a bad idea Protagonist: I can either be honest, or do even more wrong things to gently caress up even more Protagonist: guess I'll do those wrong things!!!! Everyone: jfc!!!!!!!!!!!!! Protagonist: somehow doing all those solved the mystery Everyone: you're still a loving failure Protagonist: I'm too drunk nvm
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Seriously, Brown includes two actual lectures as flashbacks in a thriller. They're both on the level of clickbait. tbf, it's no worse than the villain in Left Behind giving a rousing speech to the UN by naming a bunch of countries e: 
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IconicIronic posted:I wouldn't have a problem with it if it wasn't held up as a story of ambition and power. I agree with you that it is exactly about squandering life, but all the works that have been inspired by it, including the whole concept of a 'Faustian Bargain', don't touch on that. It's true that my distaste for it comes from study, where it's clear an alarming number of people hold it as a perfect story of ambition and power. 
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Antivehicular posted:I sincerely hope he beats Vox Day. https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/725150580709142528 Jerome Agricola posted:Winning a Nebula. Nominated for Hugo. 
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Antivehicular posted:I just read this story, and oh my God, how are people this angry about this? It's just tribalism, right? Nobody is legitimately arguing in good faith that this story is bad enough to destroy fantasy fiction, right? the argument is that this sentence quote:They’d grasp each other for comfort instead of seizing the pool cues with which they beat you, calling you a fag, a towel-head, a shemale, a sissy, a spic, every epithet they could think of, regardless of whether it had anything to do with you or not, shouting and shouting as you slid to the floor in the slick of your own blood. which suggests the story features a trans & muslim character is the only reason it won, therefore far-left liberal under-representation inclusion has gone wrong etc, so all fantasy fiction will die
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