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Jul 1, 2015 17:53
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BigPaddy posted:50 Shades, I mean have any of your looked at it? It is loving hilariously bad. mycot posted:Huh, the timing of this thread matches up with the Steam thread in Games discovering the Doom novelizations (yes, they exist). 
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Jul 2, 2015 13:34
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Ninurta posted:gently caress you and your poo poo opinions. Ready Player One is really bad, sorry for your lots
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Jul 7, 2015 13:35
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The Vosgian Beast posted:When I was a teenager, I read a YA dystopian novel about a future America where everyone was obsessed with safety. Everyone had to take pills to calm their negative emotions, and sports were played at a leisurely pace, and they'd renamed the USA the "Safer States Of America". The protagonist didn't take his drugs to get ahead in a race, so he had to go to a prison camp where he has to face the threat of polar bears, but learns to play American football the way it used to be played, and finally finds true happiness. All this was presented basically entirely straight-faced. Rash by Pete Hautman. A weird and bad book.
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Jul 7, 2015 19:48
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Tiggum posted:How does one manage to get paid to write this sort of garbage? There are millions of these books written by people you've never heard of, all containing basically the same, mostly useless content mixed with terrible jokes. Do publishing companies just pay some random employee a nominal fee to put an updated version together every few years or what? Authors like Brian Herbert gotta start somewhere
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Aug 21, 2015 14:30
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1500quidporsche posted:I don't read any books, and I've never really been a big book reader but for whatever reason I was really into Dune in my teens and ended up reading the Brian Herbert Dune prequel trilogy about Robot Wars 10,000 years before Dune. My memory is pretty fuzzy but even back then I knew it was pure garbage, here's some of the highlights I can remember: I didn't read the robot wars stuff, but got tricked into the other prequels. One of the many things that pissed me off about them was that in the prequels, the Baron was a gay pedophile and was also completely inept at everything, ofttimes in a comedic fashion (Look how he botched the dinner party he held! What a fool!) For those of you who haven't read the original Dune, Baron Harkonnen is one of the antagonists, and in that book, he's renowned throughout the entire human race for being an expert manipulator, politician, tactician, and strategist. He manages to subvert someone whose lifetime of conditioning supposedly made him immune to manipulation, and is the only person in the known universe to have done so. He also convinces the space emperor to engage in some shady shenanigans on the DL with him, which nobody else could ever do. Probably one of the most ruthless and intelligent dudes in the series, and Baby Brian writes him as a loving stooge 
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Aug 26, 2015 15:47
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Toast Museum posted:Timely Chuck Tingle 1_chuck_red_cups.avi
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Nov 13, 2015 19:37
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canis minor posted:Danielewski's Only Revolutions - while I loved House of Leaves, this is just unreadable: As an artistic exercise, I found it fascinating--exactly 180 words per page, 360 pages, rotating the book to get both sides of the story, etc. It was a really neat concept and executed fairly well, and I like that he included his fans by asking them to compile a timeline of historical events that he had printed along the side of every page. As a literary work, 
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Mar 29, 2016 15:02
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:James Rollins is good in a "dumb fun adventure story for when you can't or don't want to expend the brainpower on anything serious" kind of way. Or at least his Sigma Force novels are, which is basically Indiana Jones if instead of an archaeologist Indy was instead a team of special forces soldiers who are also scientists working for DARPA. I don't know about this vampire thing. Frank's are good. It's all (sort of) one story that spans a huge amount of time, and each novel ties in with the others well. Keep in mind, though, that he was never able to finish the story he had planned, so the sixth book ends kind of abruptly and may or may not make a lot of sense. There are dozens upon dozens of theories about what the last chapter meant and how things might've played out in hypothetical future works, but nobody knows for sure, despite what his son has said about "finding lost notes about Dune7." Oh, by the way... Do not under any circumstances read any of the garbage put out by his son and that fan fiction author, be they prequels, sequels, whatever. Don't do it. Don't.
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Apr 25, 2016 20:14
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Max posted:You should all be aware that Chuck Tingle is now an official Hugo Award Finalist for Best Short Story, "Space Raptor Butt Invasion." 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?
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Apr 27, 2016 14:37
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Mister Kingdom posted:Holy gently caress, it's awful. How the hell it got nominated for Hugo, I'll never understand. There's some spectacularly dumb poo poo going on with the Hugo Awards this year involving MRAs or gamergate or something. I don't understand any of it because whenever someone tries to explain the situation to me, all the blood leaves my head and I black out.
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May 18, 2016 19:17
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grittyreboot posted:Piers Anthony claimed this chapter was a joke.
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Jul 19, 2016 15:17
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:We're allowed to discuss terrible authors, right? Because this nobody hack is suddenly getting so much attention that it crashed his blog. He's become one of the most reviled people in fiction basically overnight. drat, those monks that self-immolate ain't got poo poo on this guy
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Jul 28, 2016 14:18
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I'm excited to see how this is going to play out. He's gone way too far to claim he "got hacked," and if he goes for the puppetmaster defense, I will lose my poo poo. "I was drunk" isn't even a viable excuse because it's (more or less) coherent throughout. "I'm trying to be edgy to get publishers' attention," maybe? Seems like a stretch in a profession where bad attention is actually bad attention. Or is he going to double down and run with "I'm a tortured genius and you tubby plebs just can't understand my work?" fake edit: oh god he hasn't even taken it down yet what a maroon
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Jul 28, 2016 17:46
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Guy Mann posted:This actually annoys me even more than Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow showing up in Ready Player One People read this book and thought it was good and were happy? How? Good lord, it's worse than "it's my birthday *every character from everything ever comes and throws a huge party*"
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Aug 11, 2016 21:00
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