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'Gimboid' is my Red Dwarf favorite, 'smeghead' is in second place. What is 'Frell'? Niven to me recollection has only ever used two invented slang words in his stories. My opinion is we should be thankful for that, because they are pisspoor slang. Edit: Oh, he also coined 'rishathra' :3eye: |
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I cant believe the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever made it into this list! I lurved that sequence. I thought it was like......Tolkien for grownups...Now theres a book I really thought was overhyped. Lord of the Rings... I read about a third of it before I gave it up as a bad lot. The few female characters are mystical and unknowable ( I have heard Tolkien since described by one of his proteges as a mysogonist and that toally fits with my reading of LOTR ) and I felt pretty excluded by the authors vision. |
I enjoyed "Galapagos." That was the last book I read before completing "The Last Juror" 2 weeks ago.
I had to read a biography on Napoleon in my college European Civ class that was just awful...my God, talk about a snoozer. |
"The Marriage Art"
I picked it up, actually, because I flipped through it in a used book store, and it pissed me off so much that I had to buy it so I could write comments in the margins. This is the most chauvanistic book I've ever read. I swear, it makes the bible (on women) look positively LIBERAL! |
Anything by Michael Moore, Rush Limbaugh, or Ann Coulter
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I found this book while swimming up and down the fiction isles at my local Borders:
http://fox.org/~vince/log/daily/119.jpg In seeing this, I'd love to know what gets rejected by publishers. |
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I often suspect that the books that don't get published are the ones of such awe-inspiring quality that they remind editors of their own lack of writing ability. |
Speaking of bad fantasy, has anyone here read any of the Gor series by John Norman. It is supposed to be a fantasy series about a professor who ends up on a alternate world of sorts.
I read a copy of Rogue of Gor many years ago, and I have never been found a book more poorly written. It honestly reads like some dysfunctional thirteen year old boy's fantasy interspersed with philosophical tirades on the "inherent submissiveness of women". It is probably the only book that I can say that I truly hate. Scarily enough, one of the books was made into an equally bad movie. |
Sam, frighteningly enough there are bunches of people who live out a Gor fantasy. There are sites about it online and conventions.....and people living it 24/7....until they get sick of being someone's toy.....
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*shudders and looks at google in utter disbelief*
To use those novels as the philosophical basis of your lifestyle.....wow....I don't know whether to be sad or terrified. |
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And I like smeeeeeeeeeeeg heeeeeeeeeeed. (Kryton). |
I loved that show. I watched it when it was aired first time. Such a pity about Craig Charles and the rape charge. He was cleared of all charges but not before he'd spent a fair amount of time on remand in jail ......kind of broke the show's flow to have such a gap between series...
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