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Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
God Remnants scared the poo poo out of me as a kid, in a way that I didn't feel again till years later when I read Annihilation. So much so that I never finished it, so I'm looking forward to finishing it here.

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Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me

Soonmot posted:

/\/\/\That's awesome, please post about the stuff the freaked you out when it comes up!

You’ll notice when we get there lol. These books go some PLACES.

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me

poop chute posted:

This is one of the parts that's stuck with me for twenty years. That hard swerve away from what you think is going to happen into "haha no this all sucks" sets the tone for basically everything else that happens.

Yeah, WTR everybody. Strap the gently caress in.

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
Whew, that description of the Earth breaking apart has always stuck with me. Looking forward to the next few months rediscovering the wild poo poo ahead with y'all.

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
I'd say we're on about a 3-4 out of 10 on the weirdness scale for these books

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
Plot's not this series' strong suit, it's more of a horror image delivery system, at least for the first few books. Like Mo says, they're ants trying to figure out a picnic.

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
Welp. Any art fans in the audience wanna take a guess at what classic piece of art we'll be heading to next?

Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me

Coca Koala posted:

I got behind in the thread and ended up binging a good chunk of chapters at once. I definitely would not have enjoyed these books as a kid. What was the contemporary reception of them like, I wonder? I remember reading a bunch of Animorphs and a few Everworld books, but I never heard of this series at all and I have to wonder if it’s because I aged out of the target demographic or if they were just very quietly received and never made a big splash.

Edit: also yeah I really wonder if Mother understands the Bosch stuff - did Mother figure “oh, this is their art, surely it will be familiar and comforting to these creatures” or was it a deliberate “I have no mouth and I must scream, thank god I don’t have to invent tortures for you and can just cop from the nightmare journal you decided to bring with you for some reason”

Jim the Nickel posted:

God Remnants scared the poo poo out of me as a kid, in a way that I didn't feel again till years later when I read Annihilation. So much so that I never finished it, so I'm looking forward to finishing it here.

6/10 on the weirdness scale so far btw

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Jim the Nickel
Mar 2, 2006


friendship is magic
in a pony paradise
don't you judge me
Okay we've seen a shipwright now so we can bump up another weirdness point, I reckon.

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