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im not religious is any way so there's probably more obvious poo poo i missed over the course of the series other than aslan being god or jesus or whatever
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Anne Whateley posted:I kept going down the rabbit hole. Tl;dr it sounds like he was in an open relationship with someone and then got involved with this woman. She claims he did what sounds like sociopath poo poo (and, reading between the lines, probably kink) to make her love him and then he cut her loose. According to her, after she went public with it, lots of other women came to her with the same story of being manipulated/abused the same way. The account is so vague because he sicced lawyers on her to save his reputation. Using the law as a weapon because he can afford lawyers and she can't - truly the actions of a true socialist champion and egalitarian.
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Apr 8, 2022 23:17
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sweet geek swag posted:The Chronicles of Narnia were written by C.S. Lewis. lol welp
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Apr 8, 2022 23:19
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I loved “Horse and his Boy” as a kid because talking horses, and I liked the idea of a young woman running away to avoid being forced into political marriage and in her father’s armor to boot. I was completely ignorant of the racism, as I was to the Jesus allegories of the whole series. I do agree “Magician’s Nephew” was the best though, I still remember the descriptions of Polly walking over the roof slats to her “pirate’s cave” where she read books and drink ginger beer, and just the whole idea of there being previous events to the main Narnia stories. This was back when those were considered books 5 and 6 in the reading order, it got shuffled for some reason years ago.
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I was always fascinated that he didn't go out of his way to write it out that way, but it just sort of happened and he went with it:C.S. Lewis posted:Since Narnia is a world of Talking Beasts, I thought He [Christ] would become a Talking Beast there, as He became a man here. I pictured Him becoming a lion there because (a) the lion is supposed to be the king of beasts; (b) Christ is called "The Lion of Judah" in the Bible; (c) I'd been having strange dreams about lions when I began writing the work. The whole series works out like this.
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Apr 8, 2022 23:55
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In retrospect though the heavy handed Christian allegory produced better books than horny people copying Tolkien.
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Apr 9, 2022 00:02
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he did susan dirty
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Apr 9, 2022 00:04
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the lion is a jesus
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precision posted:the lion is a jesus that's what i thought from the resurrection but he makes his own world and i thought that was a god thing so i just considered him a mashup
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Apr 9, 2022 00:11
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Did anyone else read the iron tower by Dennis mckiernan It was a book where a group of small people good at thieving went to try to destroy the last remnant of an evil sorcerer’s power before being accompanied by a stout axe-wielding fellow, a graceful archer man and a gruff swordsman I think he had actually written it to literally be lord of the rings fan fiction or some poo poo but couldn’t get the rights and so settled for this It was published as far as I can tell in the early 80s, flopped, then was republished in 2000 when tolkien fever really got going
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Apr 9, 2022 00:20
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no but i did read the first book of the dark tower and that was pretty bad (uhhhhh apparently dude re-did it in 2003? I read the original version)
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Apr 9, 2022 00:23
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sweet geek swag posted:I agree, though I liked certain aspects of the first half of the Last Battle. Once they 'die' the story gets too heavy handed though. My favorite is The Silver Chair because I'm a sucker for Journey to the Center of the Earth type stories. Yeah that's why I liked The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as well, a trip through strange lands. Reechicheep that little murdering fiend! The book with the not-Muslims weirded me out even as a kid though, he was a little heavy handed there.
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its_my_birthday posted:im not religious is any way so there's probably more obvious poo poo i missed over the course of the series other than aslan being god or jesus or whatever Yeah lol the heathens who live south of Narnia are all thieving murderous savages with no hope of goodness in their hearts on account of being knockoff Moslems
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Apr 9, 2022 00:29
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Killingyouguy! posted:no but i did read the first book of the dark tower and that was pretty bad The revised version won’t change your mind on the book. It’s mostly just added nonsense to make it connect better with the later books. Personally I really like the first dark tower. A grumpy cowboy plodding along in a post-apocalyptic western horror fantasy full of prog rock names written in the early King minimalist style. Thats some cool dumb poo poo!
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Apr 9, 2022 00:41
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all i remember was "two guys walk across the desert, visions with Corn Boy" but i'm pretty sure that was the whole book the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FDEcZ5ETA8
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Yeah lol the heathens who live south of Narnia are all thieving murderous savages with no hope of goodness in their hearts on account of being knockoff Moslems C.S. Lewis really hosed up there, cause I thought they were really cool which was probably not what he was going for.
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rotinaj posted:Did anyone else read the iron tower by Dennis mckiernan Yeah I remember reading it back in the late 80s/early 90s. IIRC its version of the Shire had a big hedge around it or something like that.
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Attitude Indicator posted:The revised version won’t change your mind on the book. It’s mostly just added nonsense to make it connect better with the later books. Personally I really like the first dark tower. A grumpy cowboy plodding along in a post-apocalyptic western horror fantasy full of prog rock names written in the early King minimalist style. Thats some cool dumb poo poo! I read Dark Tower when I initially got into King in the late 90's and was trying every book of his I could find. I finished it, but it just did nothing for me. Decades later I found myself enjoying the comic adaptions of what I believe was the fourth book, Wizard and Glass, so maybe I was just was too immature. Still, not a book I'd try and reread on my own.
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Apr 9, 2022 02:40
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Dark tower 2-4 are legit good books
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sweet geek swag posted:C.S. Lewis really hosed up there, cause I thought they were really cool which was probably not what he was going for. Yeah, Tashbaan still seems a really cool city to me. But my favourite place in those is probably Charn. Dead and ruined and creepy with a giant red sun. Hell yeah. Ruined City of the Giants probably second.
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Yeah lol the heathens who live south of Narnia are all thieving murderous savages with no hope of goodness in their hearts on account of being knockoff Moslems the people who worshipped Tash faithfully and led virtuous lives were accepted into Aslan's heart, no? I think I remember a whole thing where Big A individually judged every sentient being in the world. even if I'm right, the whole point is that the idea of Tashlan is an abomination, so mixed messages, buddy. I could easily have this wrong. the last time I read Narnia, some of you were in diapers. (you know... about 5 years ago, at that convention you like (no))
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