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Crowsbeak posted:I wanted to make sure that we’re supposed to think the Jesuit building functional Socialist Utopian Societies was a bad thing. Gutter Phoenix posted:Olivia Davenport - Daughter of Courtney. Cult enthusiast. Cult Crushers posted:... eighty-four men and a few females ...  present.
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muscles like this! posted:That got real racist real quick. You weren't kidding:   Here is a quick list of the mercenaries introduced in chapter 7: Paul W. Lancaster - sales representative for DAVROCK Development Corporation, mercenary recruiter Mike "Puerter" Detlefs - former South African race-warrior. Apartheid enthusiast. Hates the UN. Eli Shem Revvim - former Mossad mercenary. Hates the UN. Paul Redecker - former West German Grenzschutzgruppe sergeant. Hates the UN. Jean Trucdeau - former French Foreign Legion paratrooper. Hates the UN. Raul Caro - former US Army Blue Lights counter-terrorist soldier from Puerto Rico. Hates the UN.
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muscles like this! posted:While the torture scene was super gross I do have to laugh at the idea it basically devolving into a cartoon at the end there where he lowered the body into the water and pulled up a full skeleton with all the flesh removed and somehow it doesn't just completely fall apart. 
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drat, the LGBT community should really model our activism goals on whatever this psycho is on about
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Dr. Killjoy posted:drat, the LGBT community should really model our activism goals on whatever this psycho is on about More fundraisers for oriental hatchets?
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wtf posted:A Gay Blade mods PLEASE
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Surprised that the author didn’t try to explain his “and somehow none of these queermo qultists seemed to notice they were being hit with poison needles” by stating that they were all on poppers and thus numbed to any pain but then remembered that is way too much drug info for him to actually know.
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Why gently caress in the bathroom if your hypersexual gay exhibitionist cult rules the whole city? Why not just gently caress in the open?
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Tiggum posted:"... unmistakable sounds of homosexual acts being performed." The author just assumes you're familiar from experience with totally not gay gay sex.
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Speleothing posted:Why gently caress in the bathroom if your hypersexual gay exhibitionist cult rules the whole city? Why not just gently caress in the open? Don't kinkshame
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Speleothing posted:Why gently caress in the bathroom if your hypersexual gay exhibitionist cult rules the whole city? Why not just gently caress in the open? ready access to paper towels, running water, and real tough guys that will just give you twenty-five bucks if you raise an eyebrow at them
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SavageMessiah posted:mods PLEASE Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #30 - The Gay Blade (1972).
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Chapter 13:            We're at the halfway point! Hopefully I'll have time over the weekend to write up a quick synopsis of each of the chapters while I remember what the hell is going on in this crazy book. I'll post more chapters when I'm back at work on Monday.
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This book is really confusing with its racism. Like you have the South Africa and Rhodesia boosting plus the fact that only one of the main characters is black (and then only "half" black) but it also has the bad guys espousing a lot of racist beliefs while saying they're wrong. Also not sure where it's going with the comparisons between the Nazi and Courtney Davenport.
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muscles like this! posted:Also not sure where it's going with the comparisons between the Nazi and Courtney Davenport. Yeah, I thought their being basically the same was the author being blind to their own faults and accidentally writing a protagonist who had all the same beliefs as a literal Nazi, but it turns out that's intentional? So it really seems like the issue is branding; being a violent, homophobic, misogynistic, white-supremacist fascist is great - as long as you're doing it under a red, white and blue flag and not a black, white and red one.
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The answer is on the back cover: the two protagonists have to go to war with eachother at the end of the book. Edit: smoke those marijuana leaves, boyos. It's completely legal! Speleothing has issued a correction as of 20:59 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Ack! Busy weekend and I'm still trying to get caught up reading the last couple of chapters I posted. Nonetheless, here is another chapter for those of you chomping at the bit to get back into this splendid tale. Chapter 14               
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I'm all caught up, and Jesus tap-dancing Christ, this book is bad! Even ignoring the content, why is he still constantly introducing new characters without fleshing out the tens of one-dimensional characters he's already introduced? I don't know what I was expecting from a Soldier of Fortune endorsed novel, but basic readability would be a nice start. I can't remember if I've mentioned it in this thread, but my fiance is a professional fiction editor at a major publisher and worked at Tor early in her career (although long after this book was published, and in a different genre). I'm going to describe the plot and pacing of this trainwreck while we're at dinner tonight and see if she has any funny comments or anecdotes I can post here. I apologize for skimping on the commentary. I thought I'd have more free time at work last week. I'm still planning on going back through and writing a brief synopsis of each chapter while they're fresh in my mind so that I never have to read this piece of poo poo again! A hearty thanks to everyone who has stuck with it this far. Let's keep slogging through this mess. The next chapter is a long one.
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 Going back to Chapter 11, I just wanted to mention how I liked that Counter-Cult One™ only rescued a chosen few from Satan's Pot Farm™. Maybe I missed it in the text, but I wonder how many cultists they left to be burned alive? I mean, they deserved it of course for smoking the Devil's Lettuce™, but still.
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