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he wrote hatchet and he was a really cool guy he came and spoke to my school when i was a kid and signed my copies of hatchet and the river, he was 82 they said he died suddenly but didnt give a reason so im sad now rest in peace cool dude
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Now you're just stealing Driftingmouse's gimmick, this is a step too far.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:37
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he realy did died though and he meant a lot to me ):
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Oct 14, 2021 21:38
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All I remember about Hatchet is the kid using his knowledge of ~refraction~ to spear a fish. I'm assuming that's Hatchet, if not then I don't know what the gently caress Hatchet is.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:39
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Anyway I'm sorry this guy died and you deserved to make this death thread more than Driftingmouse.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:40
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I tend to be aware of YA authors, but I had not heard of this one. I looked him up, and saw that he started writing after I graduated from high school, so I missed my first window of opportunity. His bio sounds like his yearly life was tough, but he used it well. Sorry to hear he died.
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Genesplicer posted:I tend to be aware of YA authors, but I had not heard of this one. I looked him up, and saw that he started writing after I graduated from high school, so i missed my first window of opportunity. His bio sounds like his yearly life was tough, but he used it well. Sorry to hear he died. his books are fairly simple fare but really enjoyable and they are what got me into reading and also into camping and eventually scouts
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So does this mean we can start posting The Farside comics on the forums now?
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i read hatchet in like 1990 and i remember liking it but i dont really remember much except for the fact that iirc he gets pretty good at survival and when he finds the rifle he becomes an unstoppable killing force.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:49
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I loved Hatchet, I ended up reading the river which was sort of a dumb sequel and Dancing Carl which was about an alcoholic war vet who was secretly great at ice skating and he taught the young main character about life but i really wish there were scenes of a trembling drunk old man in a shack sweatily recounting when he had to call in a airstrike on a Vietnamese children's school or something while the kid freaks out, but Mr Paulson obviously ignored my editing suggestions that I mailed to him so the book wasn't great But Gary Paulson was great and I really loved Hatchet as a kid and I hope he "died suddenly" because he was fistfighting a bear
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Oct 14, 2021 21:53
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I also remember the plane crash part of hatchet being really scary and it turns out big parts of his writing are based on his own life experiences, like he sounds like he really lived a heck of a life
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Oct 14, 2021 21:54
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i guess he bought his first rifle at 12 years old and hunted deer for food because his parents were drunks who didnt buy food
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Oct 14, 2021 21:58
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I liked Hatchet and the winter sequel. I haven't read anything else of his. My condolences to his family.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:59
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i lived under a bridge for two years and while i was a ketamine addicted criminal instead of an incredibly resourceful survivalist teen other than that we basically lived the same life
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Oct 14, 2021 22:01
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The Hatchet is the book that started my love of reading 
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Oct 14, 2021 22:01
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That sucks, I liked his books.  to a real one
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Oct 14, 2021 22:12
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Hatchet was probably one of the first novels I'd ever read. I ended up reading the "what if" sequel Brian's Winter, and The River sequel when I was a kid. Might actually still have them. My parents bought Dogsong for me too, but I never picked it up for some reason. Edit: Oh yeah, I guess I read Brian's Return also, but all I remember from it was the quote "You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man", which I guess it's known for. mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 22:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAvju_iBrM
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Oct 14, 2021 22:15
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HIS NAME WAS GARY PAULSON!
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Oct 14, 2021 22:17
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Hatchet was a fantastic book and every kid should read it
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Oct 14, 2021 22:18
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i loved hatchet  for some reason people from my childhood that i never knew, like gary paulsen, feel like bigger losses than people that i actually knew face-to-face later in life.
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Oct 14, 2021 23:17
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op, his name was Robert hth
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Oct 14, 2021 23:19
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Brother Tadger posted:So does this mean we can start posting The Farside comics on the forums now? Now? There was an entire sub-forum dedicated to them a couple years ago but it was shut down due to mod drama (specifically the mod of the forum being a sex pest in true SA mod fashion).
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Oct 14, 2021 23:37
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Chief McHeath posted:op, his name was Robert hth ah, yes, bitch-tits. Same last name, but, I don't think they are related
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Oct 14, 2021 23:37
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Don't know dat
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Oct 14, 2021 23:39
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He wrote a book called like "the rifle" or something that was a pretty kickin rad anti-gun book but he did a great job of tracing the entire lineage of all the parts that went into it and it was neat. You should read it.
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Mega64 posted:All I remember about Hatchet is the kid using his knowledge of ~refraction~ to spear a fish.  How is it everyone read Hatchet as a kid?
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Sophy Wackles posted:
it's well written, teaches a lot, and has some fun along with it!
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Oct 15, 2021 00:25
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Gary Paulsen more like perry failson
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Oct 15, 2021 00:27
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I didn’t read Hatchet. AMA
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Pug Rodeo posted:I didn’t read Hatchet. AMA how old are you and whats your favorite song right now
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Pug Rodeo posted:I didn’t read Hatchet. AMA How did you survive?
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Hatchet was cool and I appreciated the "what if" scenario with Brian's Winter being quite short and not overstaying its welcome, but it's also been probably 20 years since I read it He actually did a fantasy book with time travel/alternate dimension stuff going on called The Transall Saga and I loving loved that book and it sent me down the path of reading deeper stuff Genuinely bummed out
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Oct 15, 2021 00:29
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Sophy Wackles posted:
it was the harry potter of its day, except that his parents were alive, and also instead of a wand there was a hatchet.
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Oct 15, 2021 00:30
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Prof. Crocodile posted:it was the harry potter of its day, except that his parents were alive, and also instead of a wand there was a hatchet. I don't think I can argue against this point
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Oct 15, 2021 00:34
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A Cry in the Wild was enjoyable and largely impossible to see outside of a lovely YouTube vhs rip, also rip the dude
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Oct 15, 2021 00:35
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TheBuilder posted:A Cry in the Wild was enjoyable and largely impossible to see outside of a lovely YouTube vhs rip, also rip the dude this dude grew up in the 90s
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:HIS NAME WAS GARY PAULSON! Came to post this Hatchet was the poo poo but I liked My Side of the Mountain more I think
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Oct 15, 2021 00:46
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I thought this was Robert Cormier then learned he’s been dead for 20 years RIP
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I also read The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return. I remember The River being kind of a weirder action adventure novel, Brian's Winter being cool as hell where he fought a moose with a spear he made, and Brian's Return being kind of a weird one where he seemed traumatised and went back to the woods with a high quality canoe. Evidently there's another one called Brian's Hunt where he hangs out with native americans.
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