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yo dudes, i need some books to read. I am reading Look to Windward now and it is one of the last culture books i haven't read. I read all of Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space books and they were MEH at best(loving ENDING OF ABSOLUTION GAP IS THE WORST ENDING OF ANY BOOK EVER) I also have read all of The Expanse series which is amazing and second only to Culture series in terms of story and setting I M H O. I want some solid characters and some cool technology which has technobabble kept to a minimum i think. Like Commonwealth Saga was good but everything else by Hamilton is pretty garbage in this regard. Honestly I want to find a cheesy sci-fi action book that is in the same vein as Altered Carbon but without the constant reuse of the word envoy or biononics or whatever the gently caress word they want to use to make their super soldiers seem cooler. Also i just read a fire upon the deep and it made me happy because there was psychic doggies 
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has there been any long running sci-fi show with a first season worth a poo poo? i guess Lost but besides that they all start off horribly
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Feb 4, 2014 01:59
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Opinion Haver posted:i'm a huge fan of the quantum thief and the fractal prince The fractal prince is a bit of a mess IMO but the quantum thief is really really enjoyable.
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Feb 4, 2014 22:44
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stupid superbowl meant having 2 weeks between episodes
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Feb 8, 2014 05:42
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Just want to pop in and say culture is the best
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Feb 9, 2014 02:53
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I just finished Surface Detail and it had the best call back at the end to the best culture book, Use of Weapons one of the best last lines i've seen in a book
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Feb 13, 2014 01:56
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AlsoD posted:can you post it here please, i cba to go dig out my copy Vatuiel the guy in the war sim is Zakalwe from Use of Weapons and he is meeting the poet he falls in love with
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Feb 13, 2014 02:00
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Or maybe he is meeting a different poet since timeline wise it wouldn't make sense for him to meet her then.
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Feb 13, 2014 02:03
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Action Jacktion posted:i just read The Quantum Thief and i liked it. the crazy technology wasn't difficult to understand and there was an actual plot instead of just weird stuff happening. the society based on MMOs was pretty 'lol' though, especially since MMOs apparently haven't changed much in however many centuries it's been. if you lost yourself in parts of The Quantum Thief, i did too, don't bother reading the second, it is utterly unintelligible. I reread it and i still have no loving idea what the book is about. It also loses a lot of the quirky secondary characters in favor of god knows what. I think it was supposed to be a 1001 nights homage but it comes out as a loving mess of made up words.
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May 22, 2014 19:28
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have you read it? there are djinni's that are rogue AI or something and there is a lady who is a prostitute to other AI and uhh there is a parrot? gently caress i don't even know
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May 22, 2014 20:45
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infernal machines posted:my ex loved district 9, until i pointed out how amazingly racist it is, especially towards blacks. somehow she hadn't noticed way to ruin a movie for someone, that is why she is your ex
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Jul 25, 2014 20:39
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You enjoyed this movie? Well i hate to inform you but that makes you a racist and yuo might as well join the klan
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Jul 25, 2014 20:44
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infernal machines posted:hey cool, the only black guy with more than 30 seconds of screen time is a cannibal warlord! so despite the white people being supremely evil capitalists who put the black people + aliens into pens its the cannibal black man that set you off? weird
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Jul 25, 2014 20:50
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its almost like you can be a poo poo no matter what color your skin is :O
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Jul 25, 2014 20:50
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i like to point out whenever there is a non white male in a movie that the character is actually oppressed and it is racist/sexist for them to even be there
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Jul 25, 2014 20:56
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ol qwerty bastard posted:has there ever been a horror movie where the serial murderer isn't white?  he didn't get that many kills but the brightest stars burn the quickest
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Jul 25, 2014 20:59
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Improbable Lobster posted:it's not a subtle or particularly well written film but it is very pretty and it's pretty ballsy to end with the main character unambiguously dead he isn't dead at the end of district 9....
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Jul 25, 2014 21:03
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he leaves little steal flowers on his wifes doorstep
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Jul 25, 2014 21:03
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idk how you could not enjoy district 9 it is a really rad movie
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Jul 25, 2014 21:13
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:I just want a new A-Team movie with Sharlto Copley reprising Dwight Schultz's (of STNG's Ensign Barkley fame) iconic character, H.M. 'Howling Mad' Murdock the a-team movie was probably as good as an a-team movie ever could possibly be
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Jul 25, 2014 21:14
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infernal machines posted:it's fun sci-fi action. its just got its share of faults every loving movie does, do you not enjoy anything?
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Jul 25, 2014 21:16
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stoutfish posted:if you point out faults in a movie, that means you did not enjoy it, hths point out faults enough to make a girl break up with you seems like you might be taking it too far
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Jul 25, 2014 21:25
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PleasureKevin posted:apparently as some kind of sick joke, sam reimi is directing the Last of Us movie and it's starring Bruce Campbell i am hyped
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Jul 25, 2014 22:21
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vOv posted:doesn't lando actually run cloud city lando also owns the millenium falcon
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Jul 25, 2014 22:37
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my comic book reading friend recommended Saga and god drat the art in it is pretty. I don't care that comics are for man children its a good comic
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Jul 25, 2014 22:46
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Heresiarch posted:also yeah saga is really good the art is really loving good its crazy
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Jul 26, 2014 00:05
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axolotl farmer posted:the remake of Evil Dead was really really bad. Evil Dead wasn't a remake of The Evil Dead tyvm it is a continuation of the series/reimagining the stuff that happened in The Evil Dead is still canon. Evil Dead was the best remake/reimagining of a movie that came out recently when you got stupid poo poo like that new The Thing which was awful garbage
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Jul 26, 2014 20:03
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angry_keebler posted:wtf????? nope
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Jul 26, 2014 20:29
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if the movie was a standalone flick it would have been OK not great but mediocre middling whatever, instead it is trying to shoehorn itself into a movie that didn't need a prequel with a bunch of poo poo that really wouldnt make sense in the 80s when the movie was meant to take place.
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Jul 26, 2014 20:42
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infernal machines posted:whoa, that sounds a lot like you're pointing out flaws. i didnt ruin the movie for anyone by pointing out said flaws
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Jul 26, 2014 20:50
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there is a difference between not liking a thing and ruining a thing someone likes for them HTH
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Jul 26, 2014 20:51
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infernal machines posted:you ruined it for me. i didn't know we were romantically involved sorry for ruining it for you
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Jul 26, 2014 20:54
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Surface Detail needs a badass male ship to do the heavy lifting because its sexist
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Jul 27, 2014 03:26
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:i dont think i've ever read a book/seen a movie/whatever that builds up a great mystery and then delivers on that mystery at all Dark Tower series because the great mystery is jesus christ you are an idiot for reading 8 stephen king books
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Jul 27, 2014 06:48
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ol qwerty bastard posted:guardians of the galaxy has 100% so far on rt, with 25 reviews in so far. this is far better than i had predicted and i will be seeing it as soon as it's out Chris Pratt is really funny on television and i think he would make a good comedic lead, i heard that bradley cooper's voice is bizarre and unneeded though
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Jul 27, 2014 06:49
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ol qwerty bastard posted:the first three are good I liked #4, i especially liked all the published hatemail at the end of #4 where he tries to explain why he couldn't end #3 with the train being defeated by a stupid riddle.
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Jul 27, 2014 07:00
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ol qwerty bastard posted:isn't #4 the one where most of it is roland telling the story about his past Wind Through the Keyhole is a pseudo sequel and is really really good, I like the dark tower universe before it went nuts in wolves of the callah and beyond and i think there is a lot of fun things that can be done with a dimension hopping cowboy knight of the round table. There is also a short story about the group of women that Roland's moms visits after getting caught cucking with the MIB but i can't find it anywhere except in super expensive collections. Like the talisman/Black House are in the same universe as the original dark tower stuff(and not the weird tie every king book together poo poo that came out in Wolves of the Callah) and are both pretty fun reads. Stephen King is my go to author for when I can't find a book to read because I know even if the story is going to end up lovely it will at least have a middle that is really interesting and page turning. Right now I am trying to find a sci-fi series to read and the last recommendation from this thread was loving revelation space which is holy poo poo worst ending of a series ever. I wanted to throw the book into the garbage halfway through because i knew it wasn't going to be a good ending but I kept reading because redemption ark was really a good book.
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Jul 27, 2014 07:53
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:bag of bones has a bone to pick with you He has always been hit or miss and it didn't change post cocaine or post van. He has put out quite a few good books in the 2000's that I really enjoyed, 11/22/63 was good and so was Wind Through the Keyhole, and i heard that Mr Mercedes is loving fantastic. He is a decent writer who writes compelling stories that almost always have poo poo endings. But really who gives a gently caress about the ending when you have had 400 pages or whatever to really enjoy a story. But he also puts out more than one book a year so go snuggle up by the fireplace and read The Shining or something. I just read needful things and I thought the ending was comically bad but holy poo poo did I enjoy the journey to the ending. Has anyone read the original version of The Gunslinger all I can find with minimal detective work is the revamped one that came out after he decided it was going to be part of a series. From what I read on the internets the original is even more depressing and somber, that might just be a myth though.
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Jul 27, 2014 18:11
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z0rlandi viSSer posted:welp i didn't go into snowpiercer expecting anything good, then there was the axe filled box car and i was hooked
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The first episode of The Strain was pretty cool but i am a sucker for Del Torro, it looks like it might be a somewhat decent show so idk watch it?
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Jul 29, 2014 18:34
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