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| Okay, you can post weird sex stuff from sci fi, well-played! |
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FactsAreUseless posted:I've been trying to remember the name of this book for almost two decades now. Thank you. Somehow never realized it was Barker. I have a signed copy  Is it worth anything? Probably not.
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ulex minor posted:Edmund being successfully tempted by Turkish Delight when eating Turkish Delight is like biting into a slug that's just crawled through the contents of a reclusive duchess's dressing table. How did no one clown on this scrub who thinks Turkish Delight is gross.
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Dec 1, 2018 21:14
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Also I'll always remember the 13 Clocks for being great and also kind of surreal at points. There's a scene where the bad guy and his henchman are talking bad guy things, and then the book describes quote "something" running down the stairs, across the room, and out a door. The bad guys don't even know what the gently caress. And it isn't brought up ever again. There's illustrations that go along with the book that were part of the original printing, so you know they had author approval. And that scene has an uh....drawing.  This is a light fantasy kid's book high on whimsy btw.
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Dec 1, 2018 21:46
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13 Clocks and in fact any Thurber book is extremely high on the good kind of ridiculous
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Dec 1, 2018 21:48
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Pistol_Pete posted:I have a signed copy
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Dec 1, 2018 21:50
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Probably not well known outside of the UK, but there's the Demon Head Master books by Gillian Cross. The premise is that the Head Master (principal for US folks) of a school has hypnotising powers - if people look into his eyes, he can control their minds, except for a handful of kids, and that he wants to use his powers to take over the world (exactly how he got these powers or how they work is never explained). The book is mostly about the protagonists trying to get people to believe them, as most of the student body is hypnotised, and any teacher authority figure who looks into the odd goings on at the school gets hypnotised too. It's fun conspiracy thriller stuff for kids. At the end of the book, the kids work out the Head Master's plan, and it's pretty silly. He invites a TV show to the school, and tries to force the main character to win by threatening to have the hypnotised students beat her friends to death (!), which will give him the chance to speak on live TV and hypnotise the viewers, because apparently everyone watches this children's game show? They stop him by dumping pepper on him, which breaks his concentration and owns him so hard that he gets laughed off the set and flees the school. The day is saved, yay! Until the sequels. The sequels get very silly and increasingly bizzare.
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Dec 1, 2018 23:10
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Grape posted:How did no one clown on this scrub who thinks Turkish Delight is gross. Turkish Delight tastes like what I imagine an old lady in Victorian times smelled like.
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Dec 2, 2018 04:33
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Solice Kirsk posted:Turkish Delight tastes like what I imagine an old lady in Victorian times smelled like. Imagine having such a manchild level of taste that you think gummies coated in powdered sugar with simple fruit flavors are gross fancy food.
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Dec 2, 2018 04:54
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Grape posted:Imagine having such a manchild level of taste that you think gummies coated in powdered sugar with simple fruit flavors are gross fancy food. Not fancy, just gross.
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Dec 2, 2018 05:09
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Turkish delight, or the the legit stuff, is flavored with rose, so yeah it tastes like the concept of old lady. I like it, myself. Go eat flowers. Although I think they had three flavors, rose, orange blossom and uh uh some sort of fruit i can't remember probably citrus of some sort. 
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Dec 2, 2018 06:10
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Grape posted:Imagine having such a manchild level of taste that you think gummies coated in powdered sugar with simple fruit flavors are gross fancy food. Ooooooh, you've never had Turkish Delight. Are you confusing it with Jello? Cause it wasn't powdered sugar that was coating it either. It was really weird.
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Dec 2, 2018 06:33
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I seem to recall a series of books about a pet rabbit who happened to be some sort of vampire that sucked the juice out of vegetables.
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Dec 2, 2018 07:02
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Bunnicula.
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Dec 2, 2018 07:03
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Oh yeah. Cool.
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Dec 2, 2018 07:11
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rodbeard posted:Bunnicula.
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Dec 2, 2018 07:37
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Mona the Vampire isn't a real vampire
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Dec 2, 2018 07:40
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ooooooh, you've never had Turkish Delight. Are you confusing it with Jello? Cause it wasn't powdered sugar that was coating it either. It was really weird. lol my dude I have inlaws from that area of the world and go visit every year. You're the one who doesn't know what the heck they're eating, and are probably getting off brand poo poo from a supermarket. Plant MONSTER. posted:Turkish delight, or the the legit stuff, is flavored with rose, so yeah it tastes like the concept of old lady. I had an ouzo flavored batch once, it was awesome. Grape fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Dec 2, 2018 09:53
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If anyone has ever read the John Bellairs Young adult mysteries, they're a trip.I won't go into detail at 3 a.m., but I'll post more about them tomorrow. they involve all kinds of crazy poo poo like pocket dimensions with evil secret societies, Armageddon clocks, time travel to the sacking of Constantinople in addition to your classic horror monsters like mummies and zombies. Starring a 13 year old kid.
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Dec 2, 2018 11:07
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OldMemes posted:Probably not well known outside of the UK, but there's the Demon Head Master books by Gillian Cross. The premise is that the Head Master (principal for US folks) of a school has hypnotising powers - if people look into his eyes, he can control their minds, except for a handful of kids, and that he wants to use his powers to take over the world (exactly how he got these powers or how they work is never explained). The book is mostly about the protagonists trying to get people to believe them, as most of the student body is hypnotised, and any teacher authority figure who looks into the odd goings on at the school gets hypnotised too. It's fun conspiracy thriller stuff for kids. At the end of the book, the kids work out the Head Master's plan, and it's pretty silly. He invites a TV show to the school, and tries to force the main character to win by threatening to have the hypnotised students beat her friends to death (!), which will give him the chance to speak on live TV and hypnotise the viewers, because apparently everyone watches this children's game show? They stop him by dumping pepper on him, which breaks his concentration and owns him so hard that he gets laughed off the set and flees the school. The day is saved, yay! Until the sequels. I remember the TV show. It had a spooky opening theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQyPSJYZxk
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Dec 2, 2018 13:18
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The best Wizard of Oz books are the Russian ones. https://oz.fandom.com/wiki/Magic_Land First one's a pretty direct translation. The others, well, I think Volkov decided all that stuff about Tip and the Powder of Life was boring, and since Russia didn't care about copyright law they go completely off the rails. Instead of Tip, there's carpenter who finds a way to make the powder. But he's an evil carpenter, so he creates a giant army of wooden soldiers, and conquers the Emerald City. That guy was kind of my favorite character. He was an incredibly hard worker, but his naturally evil tendencies made everything he made sinister and harmful, which meant that nobody wanted to buy his toys, tools, or furniture. He sort of ended up an evil overlord because he had no other way to make a living. One of the later books is called "The Yellow Fog". It's about the return of an evil giantess who used to rule the land. When people refuse to give her tribute like in the old days, she casts a spell on the land. The Magic Land is covered by a toxic fog, and all of the people must stay in-doors or die - until they figure out how to create breath masks from a leaf. To beat her, they create a giant battle-robot made to her scale, modeled after the Tinman. Blurry Gray Thing fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Dec 2, 2018 15:49
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bitterandtwisted posted:I remember the TV show. It had a spooky opening theme That's the one! The second book, The Prime Minister's Brain is...OK. The kids from the first book get invited to a computer programming competition, but it turns out that it's actually a trick to get them into hacking into the Prime Minister's computer, and the Demon Head Master is behind it. So they hack his helicopter to crash (!). The next book, The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster is about the Head Master trying to take over the country by creating a TV show with subminial messages. It's pretty forgettable and wasn't in the TV adaptation. The next book, The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again takes a hard turn into science fiction out of nowhere. This time the Demon Head Master creates a machine that can alter genetics (?) and creates an evil plant (!) a giant wasp (!!) and a half lizard clone of the main character to conquer the earth with a new master race (!!!). In the end they kill him by pushing him into the machine. ....or do they?! In The Demon Headmaster Takes Over, the machine makes a clone of the Demon Head Master with amnesia. This clone then takes over an AI research project, and begins shutting down sources of information to the public, and hypntoising people to wear cameras to spy on people to create an evil AI in his own image. He tries to stick all the knowledge in the world in his head at once. It doesn't go well. Considering that this character has been content to be the Head Teacher of a small school for quiet some time, him suddenly becoming a mad scientist is a bit jarring. The next book, Facing the Demon Head Master, has him become a DJ in a chain of nightclubs with a mask that can display images of different faces. The kids defeat him by changing the settings to show Homer Simpson. This owns him so hard he runs off the stage. So it all comes full circle in the end?
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Dec 2, 2018 18:55
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: quote:One day, Travis sets out to trap feral hogs. On the advice of Bud Searcy, he sits in a tree, trying to rope them from above as Old Yeller keeps them from escaping. Travis falls into the group of hogs, one of which injures him. Old Yeller attacks it and rescues Travis, who escapes with a badly hurt leg. Old Yeller is severely wounded as well. Searcy warns them of hydrophobia in the area and is chastised by Katie for trying to scare Travis. Travis assures her that the hogs did not have hydrophobia, and both Travis and Old Yeller fully recover.
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Dec 2, 2018 20:55
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The Kins posted:I was browsing a second-hand shop a while back and I found a storybook from the... 60s? 70s? called Walt Disney's America. I opened it up to a random page and got this: Well, that seems a nicer way to kill a pig than the way a lot of folks do it.
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Dec 2, 2018 21:01
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Granny always said there's more than one way to kill a pig.
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Dec 3, 2018 01:29
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Feral hogs will gently caress you up quite thoroughly but sure, let's send a fourteen year old out to sit in a rope with a tree. He'll be fine, he's got a yellow lab with him.
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Dec 10, 2018 17:52
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Has anyone ever read the later parts of the Allan Quatermain series? I guess they’re racist enough that kids don’t read King Solomon’s Mines anymore, but I was talking to my dad about it and apparently there’s a poo poo ton of books and in the later ones Quatermain starts taking drugs which allow him to relive his past life as a caveman.
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Dec 10, 2018 19:33
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing, The Phantom is still crazy popular in Australia and routinely outsells Marvel and DC's combined output last I checked. The Phantom was so popular in Norway that people risked their lives smuggling the strip into the country during the german occupation.
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Dec 10, 2018 19:41
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RBA Starblade posted:Oz is interesting in how it was a fairly popular and well known series and now all anyone knows or cares about is the film. The only place I've ever seen a non-Disney Pinocchio is in my own study and even I haven't actually read that one. Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing, The Phantom is still crazy popular in Australia and routinely outsells Marvel and DC's combined output last I checked. Marvel and DC sell badly basically because there's no way to just follow one title, as almost all story-lines at some point or another cross over into other titles and/or specials. evilmiera posted:There was a Swedish book series called The Concrete Roses, about a bunch of kids way out of their depths solving crimes. Sounds familiar of course, but where it differs was that it had things like the main character falling down an elevator shaft and essentially flaying his skin off grabbing the wire, and an arsonist being another kid that was trying to frame an abuser and who couldn't sleep unless they burnt something. They were by Olov Svedelid so I'm not surprised they were a bit on the dark side. Question is: how the gently caress did I miss these as a kid. I guess by 1986 (when the first one was translated) I was already reading "real" crime fiction but still: OK cool, good:  Whoah this is the stuff:  OK I'll just track down a copy and read it right now: 
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Jan 16, 2019 15:05
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flakeloaf posted:Feral hogs will gently caress you up quite thoroughly but sure, let's send a fourteen year old out to sit in a rope with a tree. He'll be fine, he's got a yellow lab with him. This is pretty much rural child raising norms last I checked. Country people are all hosed in the head bad.
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Jan 16, 2019 15:32
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trains can't talk
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Jan 16, 2019 17:18
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SciFiDownBeat posted:trains can't talk Have you never been on a train? They talk all the time.
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Jan 16, 2019 17:21
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