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You're all lucky: my dad has the full collection of Xanth novels.
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Not great. Not... Great.
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Oct 17, 2017 23:05
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I know for sure he's up to "cube route", there. Jesus Christ. I actually kind of liked the first three, and then sightly less the next few... Then it was a long, slow plunge into nothing but puns, weird panty poo poo, etc. the whole weird adulthood thing where there's some kind of literal sexy line like instapuberty, but then lol and behold all sorts of weird magic blurs that line so kids metamorphised into adults can enjoy magic statutory rape I guess. Xanth is Florida, though, and it helps to remember that.
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Oct 18, 2017 05:45
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I loved the first dragonriders because I liked the spacefaring colonisers slowly cannibalizing their shiny high-tech command center to create a cave castle, and learning to use the dragons. But wow, gender really took a weird turn in later books.
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Dec 22, 2017 15:57
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Leavemywife posted:I stared at that cover for a couple of minutes trying to formulate a thought that was coherent enough to post. If anything was coming together in my mental snark department, that "FOREWORD BY SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO" at the bottom wiped it clean.
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Dec 23, 2017 01:07
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Holy poo poo Talespin, thanks for that memory jog I wonder if the board game is still in my attic
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Feb 15, 2018 19:46
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She has one arm
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Oct 24, 2018 14:56
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This thread must be quite the slog, then
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Dec 7, 2018 23:57
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SiKboy posted:Why did he want to punch Sir Terry? I'm gonna guess envy, no matter what his stated reasons were.
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May 22, 2019 17:08
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SiKboy posted:loving hell... I'd have been less disgusted if his reason was "envy" as it turns out. Seriously. That was perverse.
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May 22, 2019 17:38
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Well that's hosed. I thought I was in the disturbing articles thread for a moment.
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May 25, 2019 15:50
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:
Mm yeah, give me more Angel please.
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Dec 21, 2019 18:57
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Jerry Cotton posted:How is something "riveted FROM"?!?!?? I reread that line so many times. Like I get what he's going for: the sword is riveted to a shield and extends to kill fuckers when he moves his arm just right, I think. But yeah, nothing is riveting from anything.
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Jan 6, 2020 15:53
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Sagebrush posted:For a high school English project I illustrated the scene from the Odyssey where Odysseus and Telemachus team up and execute all of Penelope's suitors. I faithfully depicted exactly what Homer said: shooting them with arrows, running them through with spears, and chopping off their heads. The teacher gave me a B- and a note reading "does it have to be so gruesome? :-(" Love this. "Oh gently caress, this kid actually paid attention to the literature, that's not supposed to happen..."
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Jan 9, 2020 16:03
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Well What Now posted:Welp, no offense but I'm never eating anything you bring to the forums potluck. Snot so bad
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Jan 10, 2020 15:13
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Shwoo posted:
We don't even know that poo poo about our own world!
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Feb 14, 2020 01:09
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Have you read the Brian Herbert/KJA dune novels? That’s why. Yeah. I can imagine someone getting their hands on these notes like "Pratchett's lively and comfortable world of Discworld comes to life with new adventures and some classic characters, but also a host of new and exciting characters from the brilliant, fecund mind of (some dipshit who really likes incest scenes and can't stop describing female characters' feet of which there are thankfully only two)"
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Feb 14, 2020 16:12
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Quote, edit, goddamn.
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Feb 14, 2020 16:13
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Pastry of the Year posted:in the thumbnail, the North American school looks like it is called EVERHORNY and I can get behind that, esp. if there was some trashy 80s sex comedy about wizard school to be made *uses a spell to lift a line of girls' robes* *imitates a boner with wand*
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Mar 2, 2020 13:42
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muscles like this! posted:While it isn't killing off a character the unabridged version of Les Miserables has a long rear end section about the battle of Waterloo which is ended by mentioning a side character was there. I remember that book going insane for bit characters, like that bishop JV-J stole the candlesticks got this endless and tiresome section which I suppose was meant to expound upon his piety but coming off a musical where his scene is like two minutes during a cool song it seemed interminable.
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May 8, 2020 23:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:That bit and the bit about the sewers were my favourite parts of the book. The sewers stuff was awesome, I would read a whole book of just sewer historicity.
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May 9, 2020 07:46
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PLEASE INSERT QUARTERS
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Jul 9, 2020 22:40
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Piers Anthony would definitely prefer Non-Consensual Hex. Bink must quest deep beneath Xanth through the Jazz-Mine, a mine that also smells like flowers [ed: or something I guess, a reader sent it in work with me here] and also makes people incredibly horny. [ed: because Jazz get it? thanks to Tricia McDismal of Wanton Pit, Missouri for that joke, personally I'm tapped out] On his questy quest through the labyrinthine mines Bink encounters a coven of super sexy witches who have something panty-related going on [ed: nice] All this and more in Piers Anthony's newest Xanth adventure, Hex with a Miner!
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Aug 2, 2020 06:52
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there wolf posted:If I remember correctly he not only didn't regret doing it, he felt sad that the girl was so awful that she gave him no choice but to do it. Nobody *likes* salting the Snail, but she gives you no choice!
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Sep 22, 2020 21:34
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I always wonder how it feels to put out a book or film or show that just doesn't catch people, only to watch some other version take the world by storm. Like there are tons of magic school kids books, but one Harry Potter, tons of vampire stuff but only one Twilight, and obviously trillions of erotic tales of every persuasion but 50 Shades of Grey stands out... Is it disheartening? Is it nice to know someone makes it?
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Nov 25, 2020 17:11
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Gats Akimbo posted:The Prestige the book is good; The Prestige the movie fillets a good half of it out and is loving amazing. That was a confusing year. I remember people kept asking me if I'd seen one or the other magician movie and I'd be like "Yeah. No wait. No?"
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Nov 25, 2020 20:57
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Isn't that the same job that makes people suicidal just like, doing it on screens? That's fun...
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Nov 27, 2020 07:52
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grittyreboot posted:Any time Will Smith plays a cop there's always some morally repugnant behaviour that's either played off as charming or pathos. In I, Robot he hates all robots because of tragedy. He kills a fairy in Bright and says "fairy lives don't matter". And Men In Black is just about a sci fi border patrol. Haven't seen Bad Boys tho. What a strange typecasting, supernatural enforcer?
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Dec 7, 2020 05:16
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Some of my favorite stories started off as some nerd's roleplaying group, but they at least had the good graces to lop off the hours of rules lawyering behind every six-second action
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Feb 1, 2021 17:45
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Didn’t The Expanse start that way? If recall what I read properly, it was supposed to be an MMORPG but didn't make it, so ended up being played as a forum RPG, then that became the novels. And yeah, that was the main example I was thinking of, and there's lots of moments that are VERY CLEARLY roleplaying moments but they don't fuckin' like, say it.
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Feb 1, 2021 18:27
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I'm pretty sure I've read the novelization for each Star Trek movie and both Ghostbusters movies, and they honestly lent a lot of clarity to their associated films and settings. For instance, I learned that Data is meant to be gold, and now his makeup looks lovely instead of bad.
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Apr 4, 2021 13:28
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No, yeah, she included a part about it but it was ghost written
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May 25, 2021 00:28
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I love a good blurbrant
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Jul 5, 2021 15:42
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uwu citizen, what's this? I notice you have a bulge.
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Jul 23, 2021 22:04
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HopperUK posted:Jenny Nicholson had a video where she tackled terrible neocon book 'Trigger Warning' that might be worth a watch if you're in that mood. Which one, I swear fifty books and movies came out "Triggered" or "Trigger Warning" or some poo poo
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Aug 28, 2021 14:52
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Goat droppings?
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Aug 30, 2021 02:47
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The gently caress
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Aug 30, 2021 02:59
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Sisal Two-Step posted:I think movies should have good stories instead of whatever the hell they have these days* "You don't need a good story if you have incredible visuals" *farts out old designs with flat lifeless CGI*
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Sep 2, 2021 16:07
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I'm really tired of the "cut out all the scenes that make later scenes make sense, then stick them in a comic book" school of film
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Sep 2, 2021 16:09
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"I yearn for a different world, a better one!" Oh man, me too. "I'll write about what my ideal world would be like!" Awesome, this is pretty-- oh Jesus Christ um We have... very different concerns I think
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Oct 29, 2021 14:08
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