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someone explained to me the story of cowbows and aliens cowboys and aliens was trademarked in 1998 cause the guy thought the name sounded marketable. "cowboys and aliens" got a film deal based on the name but it got stuck in development hell for 10 years so in lieu of a script he had the dude write a terrible comic book and send out 100,000 free copies to comic book stores who hated it because they couldn't sell it cause it stank. he then stuck "OVER 100,000 SOLD" on the front of the comic book and pitched it at the height of the graphic novel movie fad and got a movie deal out of it at least i think that's how it went?? i could be wrong
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rotor posted:those things are all a billion times awesomer than yosposting  the joke is suicide
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Jul 26, 2011 07:20
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CHARONS BOAT RIDER posted:
a bitter man it changes
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You Am I posted:suicide is painless misunderstood lyrics or irony? hell I don't know anymore
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I like that line better anyway
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she lied and says she's in love with him can't find a bitterman
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Don't come around tonight Cos it's bound to change your life There's a bathroom on the right.
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i finished canticle last night. definitely a pro read. and yeah, the last chapter was great.
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Shaggar posted:hell ya that shits gonna own unlike your posting!
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mr_jim posted:i finished canticle last night. definitely a pro read. and yeah, the last chapter was great. qft
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the black company books of the north owned quite a bit, should i read the books of the south & the books of the glittering stone & the silver spike or are they gay
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Kirk posted:the black company books of the north owned quite a bit, should i read the books of the south & the books of the glittering stone & the silver spike or are they gay I'm reading the first one now. pretty good, It's weird how he mixes in modern figures of speech, is it meant to be on a future earth or something?
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south gets kinda meh the ones after get great though
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Amethyst posted:I'm reading the first one now. pretty good, It's weird how he mixes in modern figures of speech, is it meant to be on a future earth or something? no i agree it was kind of jarring, especially when croaker says "Yo!" a few times, but I was willing to overlook it BUSINESS CATTE 2.0 posted:south gets kinda meh well the south is only 2 books long so w/e thanks for recommending black company btw also my copy of player of games got wrecked while camping so i gotta rebuy it :/
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Amethyst posted:I'm reading the first one now. pretty good, It's weird how he mixes in modern figures of speech, is it meant to be on a future earth or something? the later books are worth reading, although none are quite as good as the first trilogy. the silver spike ties up some loose ends and finishes the stories of some of the characters who didn't head south. I liked the first two books of the south more than graham - a long travel narrative and some interestingly exotic cultural analogues you don't usually see in fantasy (you'll meet not-zulus, not-veitnamese, and spend a lot of time in a sprawling not-indian city, complete with three conflicting religions). plus, one of the books is told from the lady's perspective. the final four books drag on forever and i found them to be a real chore. many of the main characters from the early books are barely present in them, and cook has this habit of bringing back characters that everyone thought were dead. if you've read the first three and you're interested in more, definitely read all the rest, if only to find out how everyone ends up. but be prepared for a somewhat bumpy ride. some of cook's other books are worth reading. i'm particularly fond of his garrett, p.i. novels, and the standalone "the tower of fear". his current series (three books and counting) "instrumentalities of the night" is pretty good, too. i'd suggest avoiding his dread empire books, though.
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is player of games/use of weapons significantly better than consider pheblas? Because I found consider pheblas borderline unreadable.
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Amethyst posted:is player of games/use of weapons significantly better than consider pheblas? Because I found consider pheblas borderline unreadable. player of games is use of weapons wasn't great but apparently I'm in the minority on that
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Aug 26, 2011 07:15
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:hw2 still owns ftfy
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FEMA summer camp posted:player of games is jesus christ disliking use of weapons is probably a direct diagnosis of something horrible in your head
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wtf, using weapons is like so much fun
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oh hey, this thread is back. i watched the first season of Enterprise on netflix, and aside from the terrible theme song it was pretty good. am i going to be disappointed by the rest of the series?
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mr_jim posted:oh hey, this thread is back. uhhhhhhhhhh
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mr_jim posted:oh hey, this thread is back. even if you somehow like the rest of the series then you'll just be that much more outraged at the finale also in season 3 or so the theme music manages to get even worse
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Kirk posted:uhhhhhhhhhh i'm not saying it's great, but it's a lot more watchable than voyager ever was.
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mr_jim posted:i'm not saying it's great, but it's a lot more watchable than voyager ever was. yeah but that's a dumb comparison because Friends was better than voyager
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Amethyst posted:is player of games/use of weapons significantly better than consider pheblas? Because I found consider pheblas borderline unreadable. just read consider phlebas and player of games, the latter is way loving better. phlebas was a bunch of loosely joined vignettes with a lovely ending, games is way more cohesive im about halfway through use of weapons, not sure what to think of it yet. starts a little slow but its getting more interesting think im gonna take a break on the culture series after this and read some Philip K Dick 
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excession owns but do not make it your first culture book look to windward is slow and philosophical
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BUSINESS CATTE 2.0 posted:jesus christ disliking use of weapons is probably a direct diagnosis of something horrible in your head every part with zakalwe being a badass is p. cool but the revelation of why he's so not-give-a-gently caress is pretty weak after the entire book builds up this TRAUMATIC AND MYSTERIOUS EVENT FROM TH EPAST and makes him seem whiney in retrospect but then i'm pretty tough irl and hold my fictional characters to a pretty high standard of rough coolness haveblue posted:excession owns but do not make it your first culture book yes and yes haveblue posted:look to windward is slow and philosophical and also owns wanna smoke weed and go lava rafting with kabe
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Late PK dick reads like extremely tragic autobiographical meta fiction.
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Amethyst posted:Late PK dick reads like extremely tragic autobiographical meta fiction. that's because that's what it was.
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Amethyst posted:Late PK dick reads like extremely tragic autobiographical meta fiction. i was kind of shocked when i read WE can Remember it for you wholesale and realized how PK dick really missed out on creating an excellent and gripping story luckily the screenwriters of total recall were able to salvage some of the ideas but I think dick missed out on writing a really great book welp cya 
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Amethyst posted:Late PK dick reads like extremely tragic autobiographical meta fiction. still better than late heinlein
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haveblue posted:still better than late heinlein most things are.
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haveblue posted:still better than late heinlein ive had intestinal parasites better than late heinlein
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i bought number of the beast at a used book sale for 50 cents. i got hosed over.
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haveblue posted:still better than late heinlein my GF is reading stranger in a strange land now for a research paper and holy poo poo it's maddeningly terrible. It's the longer edition they released in the 90s, like 100,000 words longer so I don't know if the terrible poo poo was in the original. For example, the (laughably 2 dimensional) female protagonist says "9 times out of 10, when a lady gets raped, it's her own fault." It's full of gems like that. EDIT: the moon is a harsh mistress is a great book, however.
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Amethyst posted:my GF is reading stranger in a strange land now for a research paper and holy poo poo it's maddeningly terrible. that's not even late heinlein. it gets worse.
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i read and liked late heinlein when i was a little too young to really get how hosed up it was, now i look back at it and holy poo poo i wonder if he has a granddaughter and if she ever just thinks "hey i think my grandpa wanted to gently caress me" and then just spends the rest of the day barfing
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Trig Discipline posted:i read and liked late heinlein when i was a little too young to really get how hosed up it was, now i look back at it and holy poo poo this is me there's some weird story of his i cant remember where some space boyscouts are stranded on some planet as part of their survival training and something gets hosed up and they're marooned there for years and omg bootstraps
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