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rotor posted: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 tunnel in the sky
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Amethyst posted:my GF
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rotor posted:this is me Sounds like one of his juvenile novels.
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citizen of the galaxy has a few good parts, but it's almost entirely bootstrap libertarianism. i guess that describes most heinlein books though.
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mr_jim posted:Sounds like one of his juvenile novels. yes, i said it was heinlein already, there's no need to belabor the point
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rotor posted:yes, i said it was heinlein already, there's no need to belabor the point lol
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rotor posted:yes, i said it was heinlein already, there's no need to belabor the point
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Aug 27, 2011 03:56
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holy poo poo Farnham's Freehold. I'd blocked that book from memory, it's a long, gross fantasy of an incestuous old man.
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Aug 27, 2011 04:49
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that book came up when the dude from slate was interviewing me about my album. he asked if i read a lot of apocalyptic fiction and i rattled off a few that i'd read including that one, and he was all "lol you mean the one where the scary future world is ruled by black people?" and i laughed my rear end off because i hadn't even remembered that
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kirk somebody dropped off what looks like every TNG episode on VHS at the value village on mayfield by 170th street, fyi. 
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iamthejeff posted:kirk somebody dropped off what looks like every TNG episode on VHS at the value village on mayfield by 170th street, fyi. bitch pls i already have every episode of tng what kind of nerd do you think i am a sloppy one??
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Aug 27, 2011 05:25
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call me when someone drops off that vhs series of the original movies where you line em up and its the enterprise
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i read starship troopers several years ago and thought 'ehhh, i guess its an okay pulpy book. dunno why internet nerds get so outraged about the movie though.*' then i read 'the moon is a harsh mistress' last year and was all 'ehhh, it's kind of lolbertarian and he's bad with women, but it's a fun pulpy look at how a lunar colony could rebel. okay.' then i read 'stranger in a strange land' and thought 'shiiiiiit, this guy is messed up and way too full of himself.' so yeah i'm glad i read some heinlein but i think i'm done with him. one of my friends gave me one of those honor harrington books, it was pretty bad. like the dude writes a good space battle but his fiction politics are so grossly and totally unsubtle, and the title character is embarrassingly perfect (except for allegedly not being very pretty, except still attractive to someone with good taste, and of course she's a total babe on the cover) and is so incredibly super-special that she gets to bend the rules and have a cat that goes with her on her military starship command worth like a billion spacedollars or whatever. i simultaneously was sad and glad that i had not read the book when i was twelve, because on the one hand i would have completely ate it up at that age, but on the other hand i would have been really embarrassed in retrospect for getting into such a childish series. (* this is false, i actually know exactly why internet nerds get huffy about it: because they didn't get to see little mini-battlemechs jumping around and hurling mini-nukes all over the drat place or they have terrible ideas about politics) Kirk posted:call me when someone drops off that vhs series of the original movies where you line em up and its the enterprise man i remember that, that was boss
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:because they didn't get to see little mini-battlemechs jumping around and hurling mini-nukes all over the drat place this is why im mad about everything
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Aug 27, 2011 06:19
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hey what about peter f. hamilton what about him? right?
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piers. anthony.
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rotor posted:this is why im mad about everything
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Coffee Quack posted:piers. reposting this: 
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Coffee Quack posted:piers. loving. sucks.
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Coffee Quack posted:piers. panty. flashes. goddamn, those books are awful, and I am pretty embarrassed i've read entirely too many of them Kirk posted:call me when someone drops off that vhs series of the original movies where you line em up and its the enterprise My uncle has these
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Trig Discipline posted:loving. well yes the topic came round to amazingly creepy authors one may have read when younger,
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is piers anthony actually creepy? i just remember him as being excruciatingly bad. maybe i blocked those bits from memory, in which case tyvm brain
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Aug 27, 2011 14:07
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oh right but on the creepy/horrible axis lol l. ron hubbard
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mr_jim posted:citizen of the galaxy has a few good parts, but it's almost entirely bootstrap libertarianism. is that the one where the kid who turns out to be the heir of a gigantic fortune does alright for himself?
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JawnV6 posted:is that the one where the kid who turns out to be the heir of a gigantic fortune does alright for himself? that's the one. also, space gypsies.
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FEMA summer camp posted:hey what about peter f. hamilton I'm rereading Peter Watts' 'Blindsight' again which is much more fun; available as a freebie download if you don't mind ebooks.
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Aug 27, 2011 16:59
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I read 'The Reality Dysfunction' last week, umpty-hundred pages with more characters than you can keep track of and the end of the book doesn't even attempt to wrap things up; yeah he's not the best at endings, I just finished the void trilogy and had to re-read parts to clear up wtf happened at the end, the rest was tits though
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just finished eon and it was pretty good probably gonna finish the first foundation bc i didn't like it first time round and didn't finish it.
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Bedshaped posted:probably gonna finish the first foundation  quote:bc i didn't like it first time round 
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Aug 27, 2011 18:52
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kirk sperg out about episodes of random star trek series that you hate
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i hate to be a wet blanket but i've been coping w/ depression and havent had the creative energy to do poo poo lately so welp~
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Aug 27, 2011 19:26
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the high cost of being canadian
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Trig Discipline posted:is piers anthony actually creepy? 
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LooseChanj posted:the title font is desperately trying to hide the fact that yes, that word is "panties".
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*in the terminal bookstore, 5 minutes before boarding* "i need a book to read, let's see, 'color of herdanites'. whatever, i'm sure it has dragons and poo poo" *on the plane* "noooooooooo"
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duTrieux posted:*in the terminal bookstore, 5 minutes before boarding* lol
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Kirk posted:it's so loving boring asimov writes some hella uninteresting characters which isn't helped by the time jumps
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duTrieux posted:*in the terminal bookstore, 5 minutes before boarding* lol also i didn't read that book so if that's the creepiest one that would be why i didn't remember him being creepy. i read like the first three xanth books and said "this is garbage" then read nothing else by him for twenty years. friends kept telling me that the incarnations series was totally different and amazing so i finally read it and SURPRISE, it's not. i mean it's no doubt his best work but i'm sure franklin dropped a deuce in the cat box once that he thinks was his "best" too
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wait that image isn't a photoshop? someone literally wrote and had published a book titled "the color of her PANTIES"???
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yes. it's real. i used to read tons of things as a kid up until i ran into these then mysteriously gave up on books for some time after. why they were around the house and not in the fireplace was anyones guess
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