...a group of science fiction and fantasy authors under the direction of James D. Macdonald collaborated on a deliberately low-quality work, complete with obvious grammatical errors, nonsensical passages, and a complete lack of a coherent plot. The effort appears to have been partly inspired by another collaborative "hoax" work, Naked Came the Stranger: the working title of Atlanta Nights was Naked Came the Badfic.[3]
The distinctive flaws of Atlanta Nights include nonidentical chapters written by two different authors from the same segment of outline (13 and 15), a missing chapter (21), two chapters that are word-for-word identical to each other (4 and 17), two different chapters with the same chapter number (12 and 12), and a chapter "written" by a computer program that generated random text based on patterns found in the previous chapters (34). Characters change gender and race; they die and reappear without explanation. Spelling and grammar are nonstandard and the formatting is inconsistent. The initials of characters who were named in the book spelled out the phrase "PublishAmerica is a vanity press."[4]
The finale was also crafted to be deliberately bad; not only are all the previous events of the plot revealed to have been a dream (long condemned as a "cheat" ending), but even after this revelation the book continues for several more chapters.
May-13-2009 00:42
Dj Nacht
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2003
Location:
Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked
May-13-2009 01:05
nefardec
Tranceaddict in tranning
Registered: Oct 2004
Location:
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Originally posted by Dj Nacht
Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked
be sure to check out the bibliography in the back as well, especially that written by david bohm
May-13-2009 02:08
yukii
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2008
Location:
May-13-2009 02:15
money
Suspended User
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: The Hills
Clubland, Frank Owen
May-13-2009 02:22
yukii
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2008
Location:
so many books to read.so little time..
May-13-2009 02:28
eROs.au
Chuck Bass
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Upper East Side
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
dont argue with the yanks nutter, they know best!
May-13-2009 03:23
Lebezniatnikov
Stupidity Annoys Me
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: DC
quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Peekay, right? I saw the movie...Morgan Freeman is in it, so you know it's awesome.
Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.
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May-13-2009 04:09
Lebezniatnikov
Stupidity Annoys Me
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: DC
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Originally posted by enydo
Just finished up A Brief History of Time and am now starting:
To save you some time, if you've read the first section you've read the whole book. Interesting stuff, but all the original ideas are run through by the end of the first hundred pages.
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May-13-2009 04:10
Silky Johnson
International Playa Hater
Registered: Nov 2003
Location:
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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.
The music in it is so good.
May-13-2009 04:11
stren
Strenowski
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Warsaw, Earth, 1 AU
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Originally posted by weymouth
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Gaiman is pretty popular with a lot of "hipster" fantasy readers and wanted to see what it is all about. Not really that impressed after 400 pages in. He's an imaginative guy but he doesn't weave that great of a story.
I didn't like it at all, I can tell you it doesn't get any better after 400 pages. Some nice tips for con artists though
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May-13-2009 09:28
Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: with the 1%
quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.
Don't bother... the movie was decent but what makes the book so great is the depth of the character development, which the movie just guts in order to boil the book down into a 2 hour run time movie. You'll be incredibly disappointed with the movie despite Morgan Freeman.
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Originally posted by RickyM
you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down
so little time..
