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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    most recent piece of assholery by card: rewrote one of shakespeare's tragedies so that gay people were to blame for everything that went wrong

    Wait. What?

    http://www.amazon.com/Hamlets-Father-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/159606269X

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I WIN, ANTI

    FUCK

    YES

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    I WIN, ANTI

    FUCK

    YES
    nyet
    time travel

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    What the balls

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I'm still ahead of you from here

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    well wherever "here" is sucks

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    You know, I met Card once, at a signing for Shadow of the Hegemon
    Got there early, talked to him for a few minutes before the event got started

    This was before I knew about any of his more extreme views, and he certainly didn't come off as a crazy asshole at the time

    But damn is that dude a crazy asshole

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    'fraid not

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    I BITE MY THUMB AT THEE

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    DO YOU BITE YOUR THUMB AT ME, SIR

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    are you fucking kidding me

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    You know, I met Card once, at a signing for Shadow of the Hegemon
    Got there early, talked to him for a few minutes before the event got started

    This was before I knew about any of his more extreme views, and he certainly didn't come off as a crazy asshole at the time

    But damn is that dude a crazy asshole

    yeah it actually really irritated me when there was that backlash against him about the whole Shadow Complex thing

    because he had nothing to do with the game

    he had nothing to do with creating the setting

    he literally had no creative role whatsoever outside of coming up with a plot for a loosely-related novel

    but people were all "we should boycott shadow complex"

    no, fuck you

    you want to boycott Card just fucking boycott Card

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    and what irritates me even more than that is that Ender's Game is still such a goddamn amazing book

    there is a talented writer trapped somewhere in the warrens of sexual repression and madness that is Card's psyche

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    yeah the only things I've ever read of his were Enders Game

    and

    uh

    Ultimate Iron Man

    this covered both extremes so well I felt I needed peruse him no further

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    OdinOdin Registered User regular
    book thread help me choose a book

    in the pile near my bed I have:

    American Gods
    Neverwhere
    The Sirens of Titan
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Empire of Blue Water
    The Devil in the White City
    Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Odin wrote: »
    book thread help me choose a book

    in the pile near my bed I have:

    American Gods
    Neverwhere
    The Sirens of Titan
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Empire of Blue Water
    The Devil in the White City
    Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    The Count Of Monte Cristo

    SO RAD

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    i really liked Ender's Game as a kid. I don't feel like it holds up as well anymore, but dammit, as a bullied young kid that was all alone, I adored that book, beyond the confusing homophobia that I didn't know what it was at the time.

    the holographic testicles screensaver that one guy had was really weird.

    Antimatter on
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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    didn't he claim that Ultimate Tony Stark is like 90% grey matter and that's why he's so smart or some horseshit like that

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Odin wrote: »
    book thread help me choose a book

    in the pile near my bed I have:

    American Gods
    Neverwhere
    The Sirens of Titan
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Empire of Blue Water
    The Devil in the White City
    Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    These are my picks

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    Sirens of Titan or Count of Monte Cristo

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    or American Gods

    don't read neverwhere if you've got better things to read

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    didn't he claim that Ultimate Tony Stark is like 90% grey matter and that's why he's so smart or some horseshit like that

    yes

    it was fucking garbage

    there was a second one as well

    I didn't bother

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    ender's game is pretty shitty

    it's fun as hell to read especially for former precocious children but it is actually really bad

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    I dunno, I enjoyed it

    what's wrong with it

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    YaYa wrote: »
    also you know what

    I still liked Speaker For The Dead

    but Xenocide went off the deep end surprisingly quickly

    Haha did you even make it to Children of the Mind

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Sirens of Titan above all of those

    I adore American Gods, but read Sirens of Titan

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    also you know what

    I still liked Speaker For The Dead

    but Xenocide went off the deep end surprisingly quickly

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    ender's game is pretty shitty

    it's fun as hell to read especially for former precocious children but it is actually really bad

    it's been awhile since I've read it, so I might be misremembering

    but I remember it being approachable and entertaining, while still asking some pretty important questions

    and it was written in the late seventies so you know

    he did basically predict tablet computers and wi-fi

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Holy shit he is still writing Ender books

    I stopped after Shadow of the Giant but it looks like he has one more of those, plus an upcoming one which will finally dovetail the Bean story with a resolution to Children of the Mind

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Neverwhere I am pretty sure is my favourite Gaiman book.

    So far.

    Blake T on
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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Neil Gaiman is a great writer who tends to write stuff I have no interest in

    that said, American Gods is baller

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i really liked Ender's Game as a kid. I don't feel like it holds up as well anymore, but dammit, as a bullied young kid that was all alone, I adored that book, beyond the confusing homophobia that I didn't know what it was at the time.

    the holographic testicles screensaver that one guy had was really weird.

    ender's game was surprisingly not homophobic for card

    in fact it kinda goes the other way and gets kinda creepy

    also yeah rose and his nutsack desktop was weird

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    i love that the in-universe explanation for Ultimate Iron Man is that it was like

    an anime based on tony stark

    and he hates it

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Buttlord wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    i really liked Ender's Game as a kid. I don't feel like it holds up as well anymore, but dammit, as a bullied young kid that was all alone, I adored that book, beyond the confusing homophobia that I didn't know what it was at the time.

    the holographic testicles screensaver that one guy had was really weird.

    ender's game was surprisingly not homophobic for card

    in fact it kinda goes the other way and gets kinda creepy

    also yeah rose and his nutsack desktop was weird

    wasnt there an implied thing between ender and his sister
    its been years since i last read it but thinking back on it i'm almost positive it wasnt even subtext, but text
    was weird but rose was what i was thinking of

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    nah there's no incest implications

    valentine is just the only person in the world that ender actually cares about because she's the only one who doesn't either resent him or try to use him

    so it's a fucked up relationship but that's because ender is fucked up

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    It was subtext, but fairly obvious subtext

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Buttlord wrote: »
    i love that the in-universe explanation for Ultimate Iron Man is that it was like

    an anime based on tony stark

    and he hates it

    haha really?

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    It was subtext, but fairly obvious subtext

    i don't remember this at all

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    YaYa wrote: »
    also you know what

    I still liked Speaker For The Dead

    but Xenocide went off the deep end surprisingly quickly

    Haha did you even make it to Children of the Mind

    I finished Xenocide and gave up

    I think I have a copy of Children laying around somewhere, but there is no way I will ever touch it

    I'll probably read Ender's Game again before the movie comes out though

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