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Originally posted by EgosXII fair cop: Magician holds an unscaleable place in my fantasy reading history, but i'll replace Magician with george r.r martin- tale of ice and fire series.. Altho i havn't read the 4th and 5th books...

GRRM, ok now we're talking I don't think Feist is horrible or anything, and I understand the attachment to books you read when you were younger or that introduced you to fantasy (I have a huge thing for some of David Eddings' work, even though if I look at them objectively they don't really hold up to a lot of the fantasy out there today). I just don't think that he's really a paragon of fantasy writing.

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I mentioned my hate for Rowling pretty much for that reason and because i think that that's what most people don't understand: that to the majority of harry potter readers harry potter IS fantasy, and is the peak of it, and it irritates me and you can't say that harry potter has a limited market, like it's confined to children as it SHOULD be: i know numerous "adults" who get all kinds of ludicrous pleasure out of the despicable bastard... mmm rage is fun

Yeah it's not that they're restricted to kids, but they're definately written with younger people in mind, and follow the whole bildungsroman format. They definately shouldn't be seen as representative of fantasy as a genre though, and it's a shame that their popularity often leads them to be. I think if you read them for what they are they're fun books though.

But enough about fantasy

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- I think i'd like to be a part of a protest one day. Not sure what i'd want to protest - but just the idea of standing up for your rights on something, and "sticking it to the man" kind of mentality. Not a riot (although, i do enjoy blowing things up occasionally...); but just to be out there on the fore-front, defending the little guy. - Deploy at some point. I don't know when, or for how long; but I want to have at least one of those under my belt before I'm done with the AF

I kind of wish I'd been alive back in the 60's. It would have been amazing to have believed, even if for only a little while, that you were part of some amazing new movement that would genuinely change society. Idealism is so dead these days, it's a bit depressing that my generation have nothing to stand for, nothing to fight towards. We've just kind of accepted the status quo and become more about personal advancement and hedonism.

Books to read:

Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov

Movies to watch:

Beerfest

Places to visit:

Berghain/Panoramabar, Berlin
Watergate, Berlin
DC10, Ibiza
NYC

Other activities:

Get laid
skydive
DJ in front of hundred or more people

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Originally posted by EgosXII fair cop: Magician holds an unscaleable place in my fantasy reading history, but i'll replace Magician with george r.r martin- tale of ice and fire series.. Altho i havn't read the 4th and 5th books... I mentioned my hate for Rowling pretty much for that reason and because i think that that's what most people don't understand: that to the majority of harry potter readers harry potter IS fantasy, and is the peak of it, and it irritates me and you can't say that harry potter has a limited market, like it's confined to children as it SHOULD be: i know numerous "adults" who get all kinds of ludicrous pleasure out of the despicable bastard... mmm rage is fun

I love Feist's series but.....Steven Eriksson ftmfw!
'The Malazan Book Of The Fallen', 10 books. Up to almost book 8 now.
"Gardens Of The Moon" is the first one. Get it, lose your life to it and the subsequent ones, then come and thank me

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Originally posted by Taranis GRRM, ok now we're talking I don't think Feist is horrible or anything, and I understand the attachment to books you read when you were younger or that introduced you to fantasy (I have a huge thing for some of David Eddings' work, even though if I look at them objectively they don't really hold up to a lot of the fantasy out there today). I just don't think that he's really a paragon of fantasy writing. Yeah it's not that they're restricted to kids, but they're definately written with younger people in mind, and follow the whole bildungsroman format. They definately shouldn't be seen as representative of fantasy as a genre though, and it's a shame that their popularity often leads them to be. I think if you read them for what they are they're fun books though. But enough about fantasy

Eddings was at the same time as Feist for me, and yep, up there for the introduction for fantasy when i was around 11 or so i think (along with Terry Pratchett who is a genius), and they're pretty similar..
man, Martin was a relief though, after the endless positivity, and seeming immortality of the main characters by authors like eddings... gotta love main characters dying almost arbitrarily

I think we're on the same page though
and yeah HP isn't that bad, but i hate over-hyped shit: it's why i hate pop music too... it's not that bad, but Fuck, when there's so much GOOD, mind-opening, world-expanding stuff out there, why the hell waste your time on drivel???

then i go out, and realise that drivel is all that some people understand, and i'm a little sad about it, but then i just get angry instead, and i go on the intrawebz (to the c0r for one of the first times on this occasion), and i post random things about random events and i start feeling better

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Originally posted by Fledz I love Feist's series but.....Steven Eriksson ftmfw! 'The Malazan Book Of The Fallen', 10 books. Up to almost book 8 now. "Gardens Of The Moon" is the first one. Get it, lose your life to it and the subsequent ones, then come and thank me

10 books!?!
is that like the wheel of time series?
i.e: good for the first one, ok for the second one, then boring...?

and about protests, and political activism:

that stuff belongs in the 60's, when politicians gave a shit if there was some kind of discern... nobody gives a shit these days, and the only reason anyone does activism is to feel better about themselves, not to affect real change... Well, in Australia at the least... maybe in somewhere like Poland it could be fun

you need the real threat of violence and passion to be involved in a proper protest, not just be surrounded by a bunch of "Vegetarians" in their leather vests talking about marxism

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that stuff belongs in the 60's, when politicians gave a shit if there was some kind of discern... nobody gives a shit these days, and the only reason anyone does activism is to feel better about themselves, not to affect real change... Well, in Australia at the least... maybe in somewhere like Poland it could be fun you need the real threat of violence and passion to be involved in a proper protest, not just be surrounded by a bunch of "Vegetarians" in their leather vests talking about marxism

Yeah, when I was at Uni it was so sad to see all the activist type kids were really just self absorbed wankers looking to feel good about themselves. And I was doing an arts degree, so I saw a lot of them

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Originally posted by Meat187 Seriously, does anyone here really believe that one's life is incomplete unless he does a certain things? I think that idea is utterly stupid.

concur.

i took it to just mean things that have been enjoyed already in life

a discussion of the past for others to read while planning their futures kinda thing...??

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Originally posted by Taranis Yeah, when I was at Uni it was so sad to see all the activist type kids were really just self absorbed wankers looking to feel good about themselves. And I was doing an arts degree, so I saw a lot of them

yup, that's pretty much what i deal with, from high school, and uni, hence the hate hehe... so fuckin annoying..
if you read the age (probably not since you're not a melbournian it appears) there was an article about these students at melbourne uni who were squatting in an empty university-owned house... fair enough, they're too poor to afford the area, and are making a statement about it to the university to lower prices...
i looked at the picture and realised that i went to school with 3 of them... all of whom live extremely close to the university (a pretty wealthy area) in nice houses owned by their parents...

so they were just squatting for fun...??

hypocrital dickheads.

edit: shit, i'm all over this thread apologies.
adding "Dr. Strangelove" to movies... unbeatable! \o/

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Originally posted by Taranis hedonism.

hedonismbot!

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Originally posted by EgosXII 10 books!?! is that like the wheel of time series? i.e: good for the first one, ok for the second one, then boring...?

Lord no. Complete opposite.
You will actually be amazed at how well everything is planned out. You may read something in book 2 that you don't quite get the significance of until book 5 and yet book 2 was written years before book 5!

I mean, the first 100-200 pages are a bit slow (like any start to a series) but it just rockets up from there. I'm telling you, grab the first one and you'll be hooked.

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Trek across the Antarctic. There is a program for a little under $15,000 where you take three month trek across the continent during their calm summer month.

I will do that someday.

threesome with a jailbait and her MILF mom (additionaly - meet up with the girl in Banora's avatar )

read "Farewell to arms" by Hemingway

listen to Humate - Play vol.1 Panama (2001), Queen live @ Wembley Stadium 1986 and ES Vive Ibiza 2004 CD1

watch "Grave of the fireflies", "Forrest Gump", and "Great Teacher Onizuka" for a good laugh

try acid

travel in a Time Machine back to 1999 and attend all major progressive trance events until 2003

raise kids

find a purpose in life or get over it

die satisfied (probably the hardest)

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