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Adolf Hitler and His Airship: An Alternate Historyquote:Adolf Hitler, alive in an alternate history, in alternate time. It’s the 1930’s. Those of you who haven't closed your browser window in disgust/bafflement will have picked up on that the book apparently has a Glenn Beck-esque flavor, in that it is so wildly insane and stupid that your brain can't settle on if it is insane, a satire of, well, something, or a satire written by somebody who is in fact insane. Frankly, it's all a bit too much for me. Is anybody here in the book barn brave enough to read through it and tell the thread what the Christ is going on? I feel compelled to add there are multiple volumes of Hitler's Tom Swift adventures against eugenics and the NWO.
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Jun 22, 2015 01:58
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Oh, wow. I don't think I have the inclination/discipline to read through the entire book, but I look forward to reading something by someone who does. How did you find this?
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Jun 22, 2015 08:14
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I can't remember the nickname, but the guy who Let's Read the Uber-Rational Harry Potter fanfic and that book about people who turn into rollercoasters (it's exactly as crazy as it sounds) should give this a try. To be honest, I mostly skipped the book quotes in his posts and read the comments he wrote.
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Jun 22, 2015 12:52
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...Al Gore?
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Jun 22, 2015 13:28
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Not A Hydroxyl Ion posted:Oh, wow. I don't think I have the inclination/discipline to read through the entire book, but I look forward to reading something by someone who does. How did you find this? I was researching a big info-dump post I'm writing over in the aeronautical insanity thread in AI; it is going to be about airships, and I was just checking to see if a particular book was on Scribd.
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Jun 22, 2015 14:56
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what what WHAT  You're sure this isn't like the Iron Dream?
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Jun 22, 2015 21:15
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I think either Bill Hicks or Andy Kaufman wrote this.
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Jun 22, 2015 22:04
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For some reason blonde blue eyed hitler on the cover is the funniest part for me
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Jun 22, 2015 22:05
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I'm reading the first page. Hitler calls somebody "Mr. Professor Zeppelin" and I thought he was doing it sarcastically, but nope, that is the character's name joke: quote:"Hold on! Wait! Don't try it now!" exclaimed Mr. Professor Zeppelin, who talked in short snappy sentences, which, however, said all he meant. "The fumes of that gas aren't good to breathe. Wait, until they have blown away. It won't be long. It's safer. The last thing we want is to have poison gas asso- ciated with our names!" Oh, here comes the nanny state!!! quote:"Oh, what have we here?" exclaimed our hero. "Here comes Winnie Churchill, Joey Steele and Frankie Roosevelt. I wonder what they're heading this way for?" On the trio came, increasing their pace as they caught sight of Adolf. Winnie Churchill, a red-haired and squint-eyed lad, who was not only a sort of town bully, but privately held pro-Canadian views. He had a rich and indulgent British father, who was part of the Canadian Fifth column. However, young Winnie was not mature enough for his father to trust him with that fact yet, but still the child was openly a Douglas man. He was the first of the three rapscal- lions to reach the young inventor. Another joke because something awful dot com loves jokes: quote:"I don't know that it's any of your business," Adolf came back at him sharply, "but, as everyone will soon know, I may as well tell you. We're building an air- ship."
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Jun 23, 2015 01:16
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"Well, that will go over like a Led Zeppelin, Adolf Hitler!" Mods please change my name to this sentence.
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Jun 23, 2015 01:24
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Chapter one was short, chapter 2 has a very long exposition of the previous "books" in the series, which may or may not exist - if the author is going for a Tom Swift adventure-book vibe then fake previous chapters is par for the course. Also tee hee hee the airship floats with a gas made 'partially from hydrogen' IE it is Hydrogen Cyanide gas as used in the death camps quote:At the same time as our hero was explaining the virtues of vegetarianism, evil was being plotted in Ottawa. Tommy “The Needle” Douglas, 15th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Cana- da, paced back and forth in his office, hidden and buried 500 feet below the Leviathan Block on Parliament Hill, Ottawa. He was reading a report as his face turned pinker by the second. When his face reached the stage of beet red and his hands were cadaver-white he tore the tender fabric of the paper until it burst into shreds. e: ho ho the next thing Douglas does is throw himself to the floor and literally munches some carpet for a few minutes. Jesus, I'm flagging here - I'm beginning to remember chapter 1 fondly Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 01:36
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Is this worth a read? How is the general tone of the story, more lighthearted or does it take itself seriously? Is the writing decent?
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Sep 8, 2015 10:39
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chessmaster13 posted:Is this worth a read? Honestly, no to all three questions, even the second one, where it doesn't make sense. It's central premise is "If Hitler hadn't existed or been a good guy, everybody would recognize the evil of Universal Health care, as UHC would have ended in the holocaust." Had the author tried to stick to this premise a little seriously, it might have been amusingly insane, but he's constantly nodding and winking and all tee hee hee, this is a joke, and the book wore out my patience immediately, even from the perspective of somebody trying to find dumb poo poo to quote in this thread. If you have the patience to go mining for comedy, have at it, but yeah, no, it is not good.
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Sep 8, 2015 16:43
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Nebakenezzer posted:Honestly, no to all three questions, even the second one, where it doesn't make sense. It's central premise is "If Hitler hadn't existed or been a good guy, everybody would recognize the evil of Universal Health care, as UHC would have ended in the holocaust." Had the author tried to stick to this premise a little seriously, it might have been amusingly insane, but he's constantly nodding and winking and all tee hee hee, this is a joke, and the book wore out my patience immediately, even from the perspective of somebody trying to find dumb poo poo to quote in this thread. Thank you for the honest answer. Mining for comedy can surly be done, but I'm not buying shares in an unprofitable comedy quarry.
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Sep 8, 2015 18:53
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Oh my god there's a sequel.
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Sep 10, 2015 06:59
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Stroth posted:Oh my god there's a sequel. I had a quick look inside. The horror, it's so awful. People say that a book enables you to have a look inside an authors head. If that's true i need to bleach my inner eye.
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Sep 10, 2015 09:35
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