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The worst books you've ever read (pg. 8)
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| malek |
| ing tit, 2 posts deep and he starts complaining. |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | | Originally posted by Lira |
It looks like you have just one criticism: that "Newspeak" was unrealistic. Not a lot to respond to, really. |
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| Elevens |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
ing tit, 2 posts deep and he starts complaining. |
hahaha
Well I agree with you, if Lira requires people to post lengthy things, that is pretty ridiculous. Is he a mod though? And does he have a list of these rules/requirements for the forum somewhere? |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| sometimes a hairy is better than a shaved one because there is more grip if you fall out of the window. |
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| Elevens |
| Pigtails are even safer. That's why I actually named my Gimli. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| What if you had a prehensile cock? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Also SYSTEM-J, it depends on the book really, sometimes its important to know what sort of weapon the character is using, even at the expense of tension sometimes. You can't just say "picked up a bazooka and fired it at the tank" in military speculative fiction. You need to know what type of AT weapon it is, is it an ATGM, an AT rocket, what make is it so you can determine the warhead type, what type of tank is it? All of that leads to the atmosphere and the realism of the book. |
There is never, ever any need to write [Manufacturer] [Model] [Weapon Type] in the middle of an action scene. Any writer of military speculative fiction who writes "He picked up a Talley M72 light anti-tank weapon and fired it at the tank" is a cock-end.
| quote: | Originally posted by Spam
I forced myself to finish the book. And promptly found a new series to get into, I ended up settling on the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson, I'm 3 books in and they've all been amazing. |
I read the first one and it was utter ing dog. It has a plot with no tension that generates artificially tension entirely by changing scene the moment any character is about to voice their plans or intentions. Erikson seems to think he's building towards some sort of intricate conclusion only to drop a massive deus ex machina in right at the climax, and he's generally one of those insufferably smug "revisionist" fantasy authors who thinks writing hard boiled dialogue makes his work less clichéd and indigestible than any other overcooked fantasy nonsense. The book has a ing dramatis personae, for Christ's sake. |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
What if you had a prehensile cock? |
is that like a dinosaur cock? because i can do the raptor rapture with it. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There is never, ever any need to write [Manufacturer] [Model] [Weapon Type] in the middle of an action scene. Any writer of military speculative fiction who writes "He picked up a Talley M72 light anti-tank weapon and fired it at the tank" is a cock-end. |
You forgot to specify the tank model! Tsk tsk. |
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| Elevens |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
What if you had a prehensile cock? |
I'd keep it rolled up all the time like fruit by the foot. And when the wind howls, I'd let my loins flap after a grand unfurling. |
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| Meat187 |
| Stop it malek, trolling Lira is my ing job! :mad: |
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