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Instead of wasting time trying to make his wrists thin enough to slip out of his bonds, Bora should have stretched his nose so that it would stay above the level of the water. What an idiot.
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Wasn't the "water" mostly piss and poo poo? Maybe he didn't want to have to keep smelling it.
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Jul 14, 2018 08:51
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You're thinking of Pinocchio imo
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Don't try and foist good scifi on goons. They don't appreciate it. Just make a star wars thread and collect their applause.
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need to read this one again, thanks for the reminder op. but for the record i have no idea what the gently caress you’re trying to say.
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Jul 14, 2018 09:32
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You could say, that goons are a alittle unCultured heh
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Jul 14, 2018 09:37
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I want a "Interesting Times Gang" gang tag.
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Jul 14, 2018 09:43
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wow OP, I'm Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
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Colonel Cancer posted:You could say, that goons are a alittle unCultured heh omg i use my laser and my plasma gun on you
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Jul 14, 2018 09:58
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try what and slip out of his cuffs? theres a word missing from your title
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gary oldmans diary posted:try what and slip out of his cuffs? theres a word missing from your title heroin
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Jul 14, 2018 10:01
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A former co-worker recommended the Culture novels to me as he was a huge fan and I was looking for new authors to read. I read a few and they were pretty good. Later I found out the guy was an ultra conservative who hated Obama. People are funny.
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Laterite posted:A former co-worker recommended the Culture novels to me as he was a huge fan and I was looking for new authors to read. I read a few and they were pretty good. Later I found out the guy was an ultra conservative who hated Obama. People are funny. Struth. Gotten plenty of good book recommendations from people who classify themselves as "socially liberal" etc.
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Jul 14, 2018 10:03
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The first book has a serious gravitas shortfall. Try reading Player of Games and go from there. And the guy who wrote the Culture novels is a massive leftie.
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I don't remember much from that book. The shape-shifter dude was some sort of intelligence operative from some sort of rebel group and the main villain was a women intelligence agent from the oppressive government. But the shape shifter dude and the evil woman agent used to be lovers or something. But the dude worked for the culture, so who did the woman work for? Maybe some different alien species that the culture was fighting or something? I don't remember. Come to think of it consider plebas might have taken place a thousand years before the other culture books took place, so the culture was weaker then? I've forgotten almost everything about those books even though I only read them like three year ago. I do remember a good bit of the player of game though. That book made a much bigger impression on me than the other books for some reason. I remember everyone on the internet saying The Use of Weapons (can't remember the exact name) was the best book in the series, but I didn't like it at all. I'm probably a retard. I like the player of games a lot more than use of weapons. I also thought the book with the giant gas creatures that lived in the upper atmosphere of a huge planet was good. Also remember one of the books had a music lover dude who replaced his eyes with two more ears. That was pretty hosed up. Anyways, no way in hell do I remember a plot detail as minute as the shape shifter making his wrists smaller to get out of space handcuffs.
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Laterite posted:A former co-worker recommended the Culture novels to me as he was a huge fan and I was looking for new authors to read. I read a few and they were pretty good. Later I found out the guy was an ultra conservative who hated Obama. People are funny. Wait what? How the hell does this square with writing about how great literal luxury space communism would be?
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Jul 14, 2018 10:17
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The one about Earth was the only lovely one in the series.
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Gavrilo Princip posted:Wait what? How the hell does this square with writing about how great literal luxury space communism would be?
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Gavrilo Princip posted:Wait what? How the hell does this square with writing about how great literal luxury space communism would be? People who aren't completely retarded can enjoy media that doesn't espouse the exact same views as they have. I don't know why this is such a novel idea these days.
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The Dennis System posted:I don't remember much from that book. How do you not remember the obese finger eating cannibal who rules a cult of actual poo poo eaters marooned on an island ^^^ I get that you can enjoy media that isn't totally in line with your political stance but I'm asking how you effectively argue eloquently for an idea that you personally despise, over the course of many, many books Edit: poo poo I'm retarded, thought you were talking about Banks and not your coworker Gavrilo Princip fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Jul 14, 2018 |
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I tried jelqing my nose but it didn't yield the expected results
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The Dennis System posted:I don't remember much from that book. The shape-shifter dude was some sort of intelligence operative from some sort of rebel group and the main villain was a women intelligence agent from the oppressive government. But the shape shifter dude and the evil woman agent used to be lovers or something. But the dude worked for the culture, so who did the woman work for? Maybe some different alien species that the culture was fighting or something? I don't remember. Come to think of it consider plebas might have taken place a thousand years before the other culture books took place, so the culture was weaker then? I've forgotten almost everything about those books even though I only read them like three year ago. I do remember a good bit of the player of game though. That book made a much bigger impression on me than the other books for some reason. I remember everyone on the internet saying The Use of Weapons (can't remember the exact name) was the best book in the series, but I didn't like it at all. I'm probably a retard. I like the player of games a lot more than use of weapons. I also thought the book with the giant gas creatures that lived in the upper atmosphere of a huge planet was good. Also remember one of the books had a music lover dude who replaced his eyes with two more ears. That was pretty hosed up. Anyways, no way in hell do I remember a plot detail as minute as the shape shifter making his wrists smaller to get out of space handcuffs. The shape shifter was an intelligence agent for the oppressive government that was at war with the Culture. The woman was a Culture agent sent to the same planet.
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Gavrilo Princip posted:How do you not remember the obese finger eating cannibal who rules a cult of actual poo poo eaters marooned on an island Oh, poo poo. Now that you bring it up, I do remember that part. That part was too gross for my tastes, although I'm easily grossed out.
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it's really weird that the bad guy from Surface Detail is going to profit from a TV series of the Culture
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Nurge posted:The shape shifter was an intelligence agent for the oppressive government that was at war with the Culture. The woman was a Culture agent sent to the same planet. Oh, right. I'm thinking the first book wasn't from the point of view of people in the culture, but that most of the other books were.
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Book sucked. The only impressive thing about it was how loving boring he managed to make a shapeshifting space assassin.
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The Dennis System posted:Oh, right. I'm thinking the first book wasn't from the point of view of people in the culture, but that most of the other books were. I think there's at least one more that's from the POV of someone from a low tech planet that the culture has contact with now and then for some reason. Inversions I think.
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It was a pretty weird book. It struck me as odd that the first book in the culture series is from the perspective of someone deeply critical of the culture, without really exploring the society in any real depth. I got the impression that consider phlebas had a lot of little sci fi set pieces that Banks had become individually excited about and tried to mash them together into his first SF novel. I recommended a friend start at player of games last week.
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Nurge posted:I think there's at least one more that's from the POV of someone from a low tech planet that the culture has contact with now and then for some reason. Inversions I think. Matter was barely from the Culture's perspective at all, it was basically a slightly fantastical Medieval fantasy book. It's probably why I liked it the least.
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Also when bora copies people what does he do about the size of thir dick?? Does he just guess, or is he walking around with a totally wild hog 24/7?
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bitmap posted:Also when bora copies people what does he do about the size of thir dick?? Does he just guess, or is he walking around with a totally wild hog 24/7? He keeps a monster dong at all times.
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The Dennis System posted:I don't remember much from that book. The shape-shifter dude was some sort of intelligence operative from some sort of rebel group and the main villain was a women intelligence agent from the oppressive government. But the shape shifter dude and the evil woman agent used to be lovers or something. But the dude worked for the culture, so who did the woman work for? Maybe some different alien species that the culture was fighting or something? I don't remember. Come to think of it consider plebas might have taken place a thousand years before the other culture books took place, so the culture was weaker then? I've forgotten almost everything about those books even though I only read them like three year ago. I do remember a good bit of the player of game though. That book made a much bigger impression on me than the other books for some reason. I remember everyone on the internet saying The Use of Weapons (can't remember the exact name) was the best book in the series, but I didn't like it at all. I'm probably a retard. I like the player of games a lot more than use of weapons. I also thought the book with the giant gas creatures that lived in the upper atmosphere of a huge planet was good. Also remember one of the books had a music lover dude who replaced his eyes with two more ears. That was pretty hosed up. Anyways, no way in hell do I remember a plot detail as minute as the shape shifter making his wrists smaller to get out of space handcuffs. The gas creatures one was Matter I think (not Culture)
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Someone post the bit about Gurgeh(?) playing space chess and it being really hard but him being really good at it anyway. That was a funny summary of not my favourite book Which was the one where a guy gets chucked out into space and dies then 50000 years later aliens pick him up and defrost him and reanimate his corpse? I think it had the giant aliens that other aliens lived on, also the squid guys who played squash with live balls. Entertaining.
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Mugsbaloney posted:The gas creatures one was Matter I think (not Culture) The gas giant (dirigible behemothor) was in Look to Windward, and Matter was a Culture book.
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Plumps posted:Which was the one where a guy gets chucked out into space and dies then 50000 years later aliens pick him up and defrost him and reanimate his corpse? I think it had the giant aliens that other aliens lived on, also the squid guys who played squash with live balls. Entertaining. It was more like 250 million years. One galactic rotation iirc. The Culture was long gone by that point. Interesting question though because I tried to look for it and I can't remember either. I definitely read it a couple of times though. It might be an epilogue to one of the mainline books.
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The part where Horza is stuck with the wierd cannibal cult and he kills the fat cannibal leader by letting him eat his fingers (cuz horzas blood is acid or poison or something?) was prob my favorite scene. That whole bit on the ringworld was awesome, really this book has so many amazing set pieces it’s shocking no one has tried to make a movie about it yet considering how popular SF is these days
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free hubcaps posted:The part where Horza is stuck with the wierd cannibal cult and he kills the fat cannibal leader by letting him eat his fingers (cuz horzas blood is acid or poison or something?) was prob my favorite scene. That whole bit on the ringworld was awesome, really this book has so many amazing set pieces it’s shocking no one has tried to make a movie about it yet considering how popular SF is these days It's gonna be a series on Amazon now https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/consider-phlebas-iain-m-banks-amazon-novel-dennis-kelly-1202706327/
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