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Post by Deeky on Sept 1, 2018 9:11:49 GMT -5
Is the author pro facial piercings or anti?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 3, 2018 13:04:37 GMT -5
Is the author pro facial piercings or anti? Very, very anti. The book goes on and on about how we're all going someplace in a handbasket. |
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Post by Deeky on Sept 3, 2018 13:19:21 GMT -5
Sounds fun!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 3, 2018 13:39:33 GMT -5
It's actually fairly well-argued, but while he's railing against guys like Marx and Joan Miro for not seeing things his way, he fails to notice that he's not seeing things their way, either.
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Post by Deeky on Sept 3, 2018 14:50:36 GMT -5
What kind of person gets mad about Joan Miró?
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Sept 4, 2018 5:04:36 GMT -5
Seriously. Out of all of the surrealists to have problem with...
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 14, 2018 14:09:54 GMT -5
He feels -- and explains at considerable length -- that while Miro showed great promise in his early years, his work went to shit later and ended up on the garbage heap of history because he was all about tearing up the canvases instead of painting stuff on them. He explains at even more length why Mary Cassatt is a better artist than Miro and if he can see that, WHY CAN'T YOU???
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Post by Deeky on Sept 14, 2018 14:13:28 GMT -5
Mary Cassatt has been dead for 100 years. So I'm left wondering how that relates to the downfall of our culture.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 14, 2018 19:02:49 GMT -5
BECAUSE SHE'S A GOOD ARTIST AND SHAKESPEARE IS UNIVERSAL AND PRINCESS DIANA WAS CHEAPENED BY THE MEDIA AND KARL MARX WAS A GLICKNOB AND WHY CAN'T ANYONE SEE THIS BUT HIM!!!!
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Marlowe
Panty Juicer
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Post by Marlowe on Sept 19, 2018 12:15:49 GMT -5
Very happy to be reading Titus Groan for the umpteenth time.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 21, 2018 16:15:33 GMT -5
I've never attempted them. An old friend read the whole series, way back when we were devouring as much fantasy fiction as we could squeeze into our middle-school brains.
Reading-wise, I need to consider a minor bedroom redo, for better lighting's sake. i used to do my heaviest reading in bed, and that's just not prudent with the low lighting I have working in there at present.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 21, 2018 20:25:31 GMT -5
Finished 
...only to learn that he never got around to discussing the mandarins much at all, and in the middle of a rant about why African governments suck, he just sort of trailed to a stop and the book was over.
On the other hand, I really loved
I thought it was going to be a real-life Sadako Yamamura situation from what the author hinted at Goodreads, but it turned out to be a very different kind of story. |
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Post by Deeky on Dec 9, 2018 11:02:15 GMT -5
Chrome by George Nader.  |
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Dec 10, 2018 0:22:05 GMT -5
George "Robot Monster" Nader? |
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Post by Deeky on Dec 10, 2018 0:29:39 GMT -5
Yes, later in life he became an author. Also, he was gay.
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Choconado
Cheese Roller
Bottom Cat
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Post by Choconado on Dec 10, 2018 3:53:57 GMT -5
I recently started reading fiction for like, the first time in several years. I finally decided to start looking into the Megami-Tensei family of video games, which is probably one of the most complex family trees of all video game franchises, but my nerdy OCD means I have to start at the earliest and go forwards, like with all my obsessive hobby projects. That means, before they were video games, there was a trilogy of sci fi/horror novels written in the mid-80s, which I've started tracking down fan translations of. They start out about this teen computer whiz and occult enthusiast who designs a computer program to summon demons/gods (the franchise seems to use the term interchangably) from out of the aether and into the real world. As you can imagine, that goes about as well as you'd expect.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 13, 2018 16:22:08 GMT -5
I'd read this.  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Dec 13, 2018 21:56:20 GMT -5
 I have so many questions about that cover.
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Post by Deeky on Dec 13, 2018 22:02:56 GMT -5
There's a lot going on there!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Dec 19, 2018 10:50:45 GMT -5
I have so many questions about that cover. The kind of questions that should probably never be answered, even here at ZAQB. |
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I have so many questions about that cover.