|
i stick the sword up my rear end and any man who can draw it is the once and future king of the book barn
|
#
¿
Jul 3, 2018 11:13
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 06:44 |
|
|
book of the poo sun
|
|
#
¿
Jul 14, 2018 00:37
|
|
|
To be fair he didn't know that was his grandmother at that time. He never thought of loving the undines either though he did think they were pretty hot. I don't think they are mermaid-type things though - they really look like giant women.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 15, 2018 09:14
|
|
|
petracore is a girl you pack of hollering goons
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2018 01:55
|
|
|
PetraCore posted:I'm not even arguing the accidental granny-banging thing is not exactly promising. I was just pointing out that accidental mom-banging as a classical tragedy is a thing, so that taking out an absurd detail and going 'haha look at this poo poo' isn't exactly criticism. honestly my main prejudice is against this forum and the posters thereon, which includes me
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2018 03:08
|
|
|
BravestOfTheLamps posted:My author bio is a drunkenly typed rant where i emphasize that I have nothing against a minority, but must nevertheless share some strong opinions that are commonly held but rarely spoken. The number of typos increases steadily, however, and you sigh in relief as the text becomes illegible. You have been spared.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2018 02:32
|
|
|
i feel it bubbling up under my carapace of self-satisfied white liberalism, the bigotry that i fight against every moment of my waking life t h e f i n n s
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2018 02:33
|
|
|
chernobyl kinsman posted:extremely hard pass my dude
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2018 02:34
|
|
|
PetraCore posted:Quick, look at a picture of an otter. 
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2018 04:01
|
|
|
Sham bam bamina! posted:Trying to figure out how one imbibes vindaloo.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2018 04:02
|
|
|
Mel Mudkiper posted:I've long had a policy that any author who has a uniform is not worth reading. Even his website has him wearing his long coat and hat and if a writer is so dedicated to a persona he must dress for the part I feel he almost certainly has nothing to say.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2018 01:59
|
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think you mean Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Bob Dylan
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2018 02:47
|
|
|
Hieronymous Alloy posted:I don't know what you mean, Hemingway worked hard to buck up ol' fizzy
|
|
#
¿
Jul 21, 2018 03:51
|
|
|
Neurosis posted:You've read less than the first book - actually, it seems like you've only read the first couple of chapters, while memorably proclaiming all 900 pages are badly written. You assert constant failures on weak evidence, citing one scene and cherry-picking a single admittedly overwrought sentence. Indeed, even the criticisms of that scene are a little overstated. Important things do come through there well, such as the lionisation of Vodalus and the impact of Severian's interference, leading to the death of the volunteer. Additionally, your criticism of the apprentice-volunteer interactions and their authority positions is just, well, misconceived. The apprentice speaking is the most senior and on the cusp of being elevated to the role of a man in his guild, while the volunteers are just that, volunteers, having little formal authority and one being a boy himself; contra a later conversation where Severian interacts with two armigers and treats them with the deference and respect you claim should be here, even as the armigers treat him with disgust and disdain when they realise that he is a torturer.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2018 07:05
|
|
|
frauds
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2018 08:50
|
|
|
Sham bam bamina! posted:There isn't anybody I'd rather read Critical Looks Sci-Fi and Fantasy from than you.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 23, 2018 09:40
|
|
|
sluts
|
|
#
¿
Sep 29, 2018 03:26
|
|
|
poo
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2018 07:34
|
|
|
i am also against silver, but only because i identify as a werewolf
|
|
#
¿
Dec 20, 2018 12:08
|
|
|
Djeser posted:The way that these books are written on the page, it feels like Jeff was embarrassed of how much of it was pulp schlock, so to compensate for that, he made the language as oozingly "literary" as possible. It's thick with flourishes and flower language that makes no sense when you actually stop and try to think about them. i have a weird emotional attachment to vandermeer because when i was in 9th grade i won a book prize at the end-of-year school awards ceremony. you got to go to the bookshop in town and choose something up to the value of $25 and they put the plaque in it and presented it to you at the ceremony. i chose veniss underground. for a few weeks the books were in the possession of my english teacher, who was a lovely old woman in her late 60s. she flipped through the book and every day until the ceremony she begged me to exchange it for something more appropriate, like some nice jane austen, and i refused. two days before the ceremony i was informed that the box with the books had been left out in the rain, my book had tragically been destroyed and i had to choose another one from the shop. in the end it worked out well for me i ended up getting two books, the english-vietnamese phrasebook i chose second and also veniss underground, which even though it had been completely soaked in water and all the pages stuck together, was legible once i'd carefully dried it in the sun and stayed with me for many years. it was the only book that had been "left in the rain" and ruined. nobody else got a second book. when i finally got to read the book over the summer holidays i had chicken pox and glandular fever at the same time and was delirious and itching wildly, which is the right state of mind to read vandermeer avshalemon fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jan 1, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Jan 1, 2019 23:54
|
|
|
lots of things are like roadside picnic because roadside picnic loving owns
|
|
#
¿
Jan 1, 2019 23:59
|
|
|
drool rockworm
|
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2019 04:16
|
|
|
there is no way donaldson wrote the covenant books ironically, they're just too overwrought to be anything but sincere. he just made that up when people started saying mean things about him
|
|
#
¿
Jan 7, 2019 00:09
|
|
|
TheGreatEvilKing posted:Also, per this Washington Post article is to be believed, Lord Foul's Bane actually brought fantasy back into public consciousness, along with Sword of Shannara (which is merely bland derivative trash).
|
|
#
¿
Jan 7, 2019 21:34
|
|
|
i have become highly attuned to that particular breathless overwrought prose ageing men slip into when they're writing something that makes them rock-hard irl. some try to hide it more than others but nobody can hide it completely that's why i like ligotti, those unmistakeable passages where he gets just as excited as hamilton describing his genetically-engineered nymphets but instead of giggling sex athletes he is usually popping a boner about puppets and the void
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2019 00:01
|
|
|
pseudanonymous posted:Please no I'd rather be an acorn dragon than live in the kind of magical hellscape a Mormon imagines the world to be then comes up with the kind of prosaic fantasy writing he does.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2019 03:15
|
|
|
Karia posted:I'm not sure if Sanderson has ever been aroused or excited in his life. The bigger question is whether he's awake. there's one point where a little girl's magically trapped in a library and when she's freed and reunites with her father the only physical description whatesoever either of them gets is "she was too young to wear a modesty sleeve", which kind of made me uncomfortable mormons avshalemon fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Mar 5, 2019 |
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2019 03:17
|
|
|
before every shitpost, i pause to consider the chain of historical atrocities that led me inexorably to this path i am on
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2019 00:28
|
|
|
Milkfred E. Moore posted:poo poo! gently caress! Prick! rear end! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2019 00:32
|
|
|
i'm a fat demon that feasts on fear
|
|
#
¿
Mar 6, 2019 23:14
|
|
|
rear end of kings
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2019 01:02
|
|
|
i don't know how to pronounce "borges". someone please tell me so i don't have to embarrass myself irl
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2019 10:27
|
|
|
porfiria posted:Bore-gas don't leave me exposed to the mockery of the latins
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2019 10:54
|
|
|
i've never read borges but have just begun and am enchanted
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2019 10:55
|
|
|
Antivehicular posted:No reader is going to nod thoughtfully and think "yes, maggots, a creature best known for their silence."
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2019 08:26
|
|
|
it really baffles me that sanderson's writing is so bad when he does so much of it. like you think the sheer weight of all that practice would force him to develop some kind of spark or voice or poetic flair, but somehow the more he writes the more flat and mechanical it seems to become
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2019 02:48
|
|
|
i like blackwood's terrible stuff better than his good stuff
|
|
#
¿
Mar 13, 2019 04:37
|
|
|
i have transcended beyond the concept of hope
|
|
#
¿
Mar 13, 2019 09:37
|
|
|
sfffffff
|
|
#
¿
Mar 13, 2019 09:38
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 06:44 |
|
|
the only work of quality, is animorphs
|
|
#
¿
Mar 13, 2019 09:40
|
|