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I'm pretty sure most of us won't be forgetting wombmen... ever.   e: ok fine, a taste of things to.. come chapter 18 posted:"I'm sorry, my big knight," she said, wriggling a little. Tame as tame can be! Working on 6 today! Done everything soooon. SaviourX fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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whowhatwhere posted:They're interesting more than good (at least the first book was). It does a great job of sketching out the barest outlines of ideas that would make for awesome stories...but then doesn't really do anything with them. To add to this, as the series progresses - three stories a book - Lukyanenko's inner scientist starts raging and he starts explaining how things work. I found it quite funny.
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whowhatwhere posted:But this is how IRQ will come off as sensitive to the womenfolks' needs. He has to do this. I thought that's why I read and watched The Help? Totally didn't work.
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IRQ posted:I thought that's why I read and watched The Help? No, that was to be sensitive to black womenfolk's needs. It's not The Help's fault you're a horrible racist 
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No person in this thread, and I include myself, has even the smallest hope of ever being sensitive to anyone else's needs.
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Nonsense, the American Tolkien George R.R. Martin's masterwork A Song of Ice and Fire perfectly teaches how to fulfill the needs of many.
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whowhatwhere posted:No, that was to be sensitive to black womenfolk's needs. It's not The Help's fault you're a horrible racist Well The Help was actually pretty racist itself so I would argue that it played more into the needs of white womenfolk who feel bad for black womenfolk. In which case it should have been perfect! Sophia posted:No person in this thread, and I include myself, has even the smallest hope of ever being sensitive to anyone else's needs.  I was having a good day too, gently caress you guys.
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Urdnot Fire posted:Nonsense, the American Tolkien George R.R. Martin's masterwork A Song of Ice and Fire perfectly teaches how to fulfill the needs of many. Many stick princes, you mean.
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IRQ posted:Well The Help was actually pretty racist itself 
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You'd be surprised how few people notice that though.
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Thulsa Doom posted:Many stick princes, you mean. Urdnot Fire fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Oct 11, 2012 |
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Sophia posted:Pffft, that's like one paragraph out of three books and it's not even stated explicitly and I told you there was some sex stuff in there but I promise it is not that bad. More "sexual themes" than "sexual scenes". Edit: But you don't have to read it, I told you it's something that I generally recommend to women! I personally enjoyed the series, but you have to admit there is a lot of goofy bullshit in there. There is literally a place called Hayll that is literally run by a guy named Saetan who's two sons are literally named Daemon and Lucivar. And Lucivar has big leathery demon wings. Really, I'm not sure if the pro/con list would come out with enough suggestions to read the book, but there are enough good scenes and comedy option/badass moments to help float the gigantic talking fluffy magic-using animals.
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I'm reading the Terror by Dan Simmons right now and it's so good and creepy.
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Osmosisch posted:What did you think of Metro 2033 if you also read that? They are interesting books to compare/contrast imo. Haven't read it. Getting on that!
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FWIW, the Humble eBook Bundle still has a week and a half left to go and has a bunch of genre fiction with some relatively well known authors for pretty cheap. http://www.humblebundle.com/?humbleEbookBundle John Scalzi's Old Man War comes with a $13-ish or higher donation and that keeps coming up in the Space Opera thread (now mostly just generic sci-fi). Other than that and the Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean book the rest all come as cheaply as you want. Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean - Signal to Noise John Scalzi - Old Man’s War Cory Doctorow - Pirate Cinema Paolo Bacigalupi - Pump Six Lauren Beukes - Zoo City Mercedes Lackey - Invasion Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners I've read a different Bacigalupi book called The Wind-Up Girl that was really well-written and you probably already have an opinion about Gaiman and Mercedes Lackey. Maybe Doctorow too, but I haven't read any of these specific books personally. Still seems like a pretty good buy for a good cause.
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Paolo Bacigalupi's creep factor is a significant fraction of GRRM's. Wind-Up Girl is basically about how he went to Thailand and didn't like it and he thinks a Thai future would be hell, also his sexual fetishes. But there are a lot of super awesome authors in that bundle, especially Kelly Link.
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If you listen to his interviews, he writes about everything going to hell, so it's okay. And sexual fetishes and oddities, as I keep trying to tell everyone, is like a big mainstay of well, all literature. So there's that. Still, Scalzi borders on plain and boring, Zoo City won a bunch of awards last year, so it's a mixed bag. And thank gently caress it's a humble bundle, because I won't be hosed to give Doctorow any money for anything he's written ever.
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I don't want to hammer on Scalzi too much, because I do think he's an overblown author and an insufferably self-concerned person, but Old Man's War is a pro-read and if you really liked the idea of the Ghost Brigades then the follow-up concerning them isn't awful, it's just not a good sequel to OMW, so take it as its own book. I personally did not like the Ghost Brigades book so I did not continue on to the third book in the series wherein he writes about how awesome He also just released a Star Trek parody called Redshirts where the redshirts on the not-Enterprise come to realize their job is a death sentance and then inexplicably realize they are on a 1960's scifi series. Apparently the book is fairly funny up until the conceit goes up its own rear end like that, but I won't be bothering with it.
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In the realm of fluffy fantasy without stupid BDSM, I can recommend J. Gregory Keyes, either The Waterborn, or the Kingdom of Thorn and Bone series (4 books). Most agreeable fantasy I've read in years.
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Lolitas Alright! posted:I personally enjoyed the series, but you have to admit there is a lot of goofy bullshit in there. There is literally a place called Hayll that is literally run by a guy named Saetan who's two sons are literally named Daemon and Lucivar. And Lucivar has big leathery demon wings. poo poo like this is ruining my re-read of The Wheel of Time series. I really liked it in middle/high school but now I see names like Myrdrall and I eyeroll so hard.
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Never underestimate the attraction of cheap puns to an author.
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From the strangest fanart thread...
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It's like a printable IUD. whoflungpoop fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Oct 13, 2012 |
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IRQ posted:I just finished these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeraire_%28series%29  only the first three books this trilogy only the first three books dont read before the pern series!!!General Battuta posted:Paolo Bacigalupi's creep factor is a significant fraction of GRRM's. Wind-Up Girl is basically about how he went to Thailand and didn't like it and he thinks a Thai future would be hell, also his sexual fetishes. I really like pump six / windup girl - I didn't get a creepy vibe , but at this point I don't even know if I remember what creepy looks like. I've been staring into the creeper-sun that is grrm... everything else looks like dark spots compared to him. Oh no wait - I just read this. this is creepy: http://www.amazon.com/Funeral-Party-II-Shade-Rupe/dp/1890528005 its like porn/horror. tldr: paolo = thumbs up! kcroy fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 13, 2012 |
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kcroy posted:3 women writers, books I enjoyed at some point in my teens. way fluffy. The Menolly books are a guilty pleasure... all those other girls just HATE menolly.. its not her fault she found all those fire lizards.!!!! karmaconfetti posted:In the realm of fluffy fantasy without stupid BDSM, I can recommend J. Gregory Keyes, either The Waterborn, or the Kingdom of Thorn and Bone series (4 books). Most agreeable fantasy I've read in years. This poo poo looks fluffy as hell. Thanks duders. My kindle is practically floating it's so full of fluff.
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IRQ posted:This poo poo looks fluffy as hell. Thanks duders. My kindle is practically floating it's so full of fluff. I would also recommend Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore and the first two Nightrunners books by Lynn Flewelling if you're looking for more fluff.
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Remember though that Anne McCaffrey believes that anal penetration releases hormones that give you the gay. It's true. A guy got raped by a tent peg and became effeminate immediately after!
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bigmcgaffney posted:Remember though that Anne McCaffrey believes that anal penetration releases hormones that give you the gay. It's true. A guy got raped by a tent peg and became effeminate immediately after! So, wait, what happened to Lestat, then? He's been effeminate all along.
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whowhatwhere posted:So, wait, what happened to Lestat, then? He's been effeminate all along. That's Anne Rice. Also, dear god that interview with a vampire book was awful.
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In one of the sequels, Lestat drinks the blood of Jesus Christ. Literally. That is what you need to know about Interview with the Vampire. I only read one of the sequels for some reason. I think it was on sale for $.99 or something.
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Sophia posted:I would also recommend Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore and the first two Nightrunners books by Lynn Flewelling if you're looking for more fluff. Graceling is hard as poo poo to find, but I did. You better not be recommending me more crazy girl porn dammit.
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This page reminds me of middle school. All Anne McCaffrey and stupid vampires and poo poo. I....I wasn't the most popular kid. EDIT: We need some stupid blathering Victorians to complete the set.
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IRQ posted:recommending me more crazy girl porn Lois McMaster Bujold of Miles Vorkosigan fame did a handful of fantasy books with some serious romantic overtones that were pretty easy reads. "The Sharing Knife" series has some four books with a perky teen Mary Sue being rescued from monsters by a dashing older man and they totally get married and have tons of sex while saving the world from monsters. Then there are three books that share a world (Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt) that all have some unlikely love matches at their root along with a lovely idea for a religion/pantheon/afterlife. And I guess The Spirit Ring in Medieval Italy But With Magic is the same sort of thing, but with The Church more or less. That Bujold loves her some happy endings and smart, noble, romantic people, I tells ya. A little kinky perhaps, but nothing on GRRM's unlikely hoard of perversions of course.
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my cat is norris posted:Mercedes Lackey is not a good read as an adult. I say this as someone who was devoted to the Valdemar series in my youth. Oh but you know very well how bored I am.
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my cat is norris posted:Mercedes Lackey is not a good read as an adult. I say this as someone who was devoted to the Valdemar series in my youth. The mercenaries books hold up a lot better than Valdemar, but they're pretty much explicitly just the classic Conan-style hack and slash fantasy for feminists, so you would expect them to.
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