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SmokaDustbowl posted:who the gently caress has ever read wheel of time lmao g witch was good, glad they're spreading it out instead of rushing it even if it makes the wait harder
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Don't underestimate the ability of a bored kid to churn through an enormous amount of fiction.
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Jabor posted:Don't underestimate the ability of a bored kid to churn through an enormous amount of fiction. yeah, i burned through an insane amount of pulpy science fiction and fantasy in middle school and high school
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i still can't believe i read so many of the dumb stars war 'young jedi knights' books when i was an idiot child fortunately i got on the right track when i got to the 'doom' novelizations
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infernal machines posted:huh. so that idiot who took a bite out of a whole onion wasn't lying if you're at a party there's almost certainly someone there that you can make some sort of drunken bet that they can't eat a raw onion whole. in maybe 15 people i've seen a single woman succeed. it's always a hoot
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psiox posted:ugh incredibly cursed image of the author of the doom books hes a weird mormon right?
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Is Brandon Sanderson the only Mormon SFF author that isn't an insane freak
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psiox posted:i still can't believe i read so many of the dumb stars war 'young jedi knights' books when i was an idiot child crossposting NoneMoreNegative posted:Happened on this collection of Game related texts on the always-reliable Archive.org
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Also a couple of Dark Forces books if you lean that way.
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Casual Encountess posted:hes a weird mormon right? i will always remember the doom novels as they were derivative trash i read as a young dumb-dumb. before i could get to the better sci-fi they cribbed from. i think everyone has something like this phenomenon, the doom novels were just my version of it Kenny Logins fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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the worst series I read when young were the David Eddings ones. I think I realised they were bad like half way through the second series. I don't think he was a chud though fortunately? I also remember a proto-YA series about people who could transform into animals that very quickly went off the rails in a way I hadn't seen before, but now is genre defining. No idea what it was called
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distortion park posted:I also remember a proto-YA series about people who could transform into animals that very quickly went off the rails in a way I hadn't seen before, but now is genre defining. No idea what it was called is this a joke how can you forget a name as good as animorphs
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bump_fn posted:is this a joke how can you forget a name as good as animorphs the one I'm thinking of they discovered they could turn into vampires and poo poo a little way into the series. The first book was an innocent tail of being a squirrel and running around the forest. Idk if that's animorphs? I don't remember any aliens
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axolotl farmer posted:on the topic of bad mormon sci-fi, Orson Scott Card is terrible in every single way distortion park posted:also turns out:
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advances in ai have rendered cinema discusso redundant: https://perchance.org/mityi62j92
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To be fair then I read a bunch of Mercedes Lackey books which were unquestionably dumber
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I was gonna rag on michael moorecock for his weird "discovered book his grandfather wrote" which is full of kipling style racism but he also apparently loves to poo poo on the Gor author for being a weirdo about women so who is to say if he's good or bad
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holy fuckin poo poo https://www.newspapers.com/image/94018775/ I didn’t make it far past the “caged in the basement for 2 days for refusing to eat his dinner”
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you're made of stronger stuff than I, I didn't make it past "you need a subscription to view this page"
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:I was gonna rag on michael moorecock for his weird "discovered book his grandfather wrote" which is full of kipling style racism but he also apparently loves to poo poo on the Gor author for being a weirdo about women so who is to say if he's good or bad i remember my reaction to the elric books as a youth was "lol morecock"
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mystes posted:To be fair then I read a bunch of Mercedes Lackey books which were unquestionably dumber same, but even worse than those, my mom would buy boxes of old harlequin & silhouette novels on ebay when i was a preteen/teen and i have read a lot of those. including like all of Nora Roberts' macgregor family series, which is like 40 books or something. my sister had a bunch of piers anthony/xanth books, and good lord that poo poo was gross.
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haveblue posted:you're made of stronger stuff than I, I didn't make it past "you need a subscription to view this page" lmao I just clicked the reader button
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rotor posted:i remember my reaction to the elric books as a youth was "lol morecock" same. the public library also had all the tintin and asterix books in the same section, so i never read any morecock
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:lmao this is the way
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:holy fuckin poo poo oh let me helpfully summarize then. they also regularly beat him with a board on the hands and legs until he was bruised, walked with a limp, and couldn’t put on his boots himself because his fingers couldn’t clench. and there was some sort of safety-pin contraption that wasn’t fully explained but did leave him with puncture wounds. and the basement was apparently kept lightless when they weren’t down there
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Kenny Logins posted:iirc he's a navy washout/liar and libertarian who went off his nut after 9/11 in the usual right wing way I did a book report on the 2nd one, hell on earth, in 6th grade. Stood up in front of class and summarized the whole thing. It kicked rear end. Just a lil nostalgic about it. I read the first 2 relatively recently and they are indeed trash level, but hold a special place as my first sci fi
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just remember, the doomguy's name is not flynn taggart, it is actually john stalvern
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haveblue posted:just remember, the doomguy's name is not flynn taggart, it is actually john stalvern that doesnt sound right
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I did a book report on the 2nd one, hell on earth, in 6th grade. Stood up in front of class and summarized the whole thing. It kicked rear end. the timing of me reading lotr for the first time was my 6th grade teacher telling me it was the only genre fiction I could use for book reports
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I did a book report on the 2nd one, hell on earth, in 6th grade. Stood up in front of class and summarized the whole thing. It kicked rear end.
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it's so funny when teachers try to stop kids from reading books they like and instead make it a stupid chore mine let me do book reports on whatever I wanted cause they didn't want to deal with my mom. owned lol here comes another book set during the Hundred Years War
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little jones is really good at reading but doesn't really enjoy doing it. this means that i read to him most nights. we're reading mrs frisby and the rats of nimh right now and it owns ms jones says that he is starting to enjoy reading on his own more, and just doesnt like reading out loud for other people. which means we might switch over to family reading time soon, which also owns in a different way
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i loving loved the rats of nimh when i was a tiny child
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do kids still read the Martin books? those always made me crave bread and cheese and other delicious food
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:do kids still read the Martin books? those always made me crave bread and cheese and other delicious food assuming you mean redwall stuff, idk, but im lookin forward to reading these to him as well
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