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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 9)
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Oh, and this makes me laugh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Nights
| quote: | ...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. |
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| Dj Nacht |
| Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked :wtf: |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Nacht
Just started the Holographic Universe by reccomendation from Nefardec. So far just read the first chapter and im hooked :wtf: |
be sure to check out the bibliography in the back as well, especially that written by david bohm |
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| yukii |
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| money |
| Clubland, Frank Owen |
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| yukii |
so many books to read. so little time.. |
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| eROs.au |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Peekay, right? I saw the movie...Morgan Freeman is in it, so you know it's awesome.
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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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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Just finished up A Brief History of Time and am now starting:
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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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| Silky Johnson |
| 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. |
The music in it is so good. :) |
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| stren |
| quote: | 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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| Moral Hazard |
| 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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