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The propaganda machine of Blackened's junta released this statement:
Just like women generally are horrible comedians, they also are horrible authors.The best authors are all men.
Lisa Lampinelli is a great female comedian, probably the best female comedian ever. And that makes her the 4,923rd greatest comedian overall.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Picked up "Children of Hurin", but haven't started it yet.
quote:As soon as Sean posted that, I turned to him and said, "No one is going to get that." He replied that it was a joke just for us, but now because you've inquired I have to explain this.
Mr. Gainsborough.
Is that the chick with the fucked up voice?
The dashing fellow in my avatar is Ciaphas Cain. A gigantic badass ball of self preservation set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The books he appears in are written by Sandy Mitchell, whom we both originally assumed was a woman. First name: Sandy, therefore probably a gal, right?
Turns out it's just a pseudonym for Alex Stewart.
Her act sucked, but she sounded retarded which made me laugh a lot.
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This insanity brought to you by Mr. Gainsborough:
So who's that chick with the fucked up voice? She was on Comedy Central Presents once.Her act sucked, but she sounded retarded which made me laugh a lot.
Kathy Griffin?
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Verily, Lechium doth proclaim:
Kathy Griffin?
Well, yes, but that's not the one I'm talking about.
She was really short and had a stupidly high pitched voice, but her act was that she could make herself sound like she had a deep voice. It was fucking stupid, but her normally voice was laffo.
Although I do know who you're talking about, but I can't remember her name.
2. The Silmarillion was HORRIBLE. It was like badly-editted notes for stuff that didn't get put in the main story for a good reason. Also it had incest.
3. Nightwatch wasn't bad for an afternoon read. It was a little bland at times, I'll admit, but I didn't expend any great effort reading it. It's worth taking a look at if you can ignore the faults. I hear Day Watch and Dawn Watch are a bit more poppy.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
After shopping around I found like, 7 or 8 tradebacks (Is that what the compilation books are called?) with titles like: 'Spider Man: Civil War' and 'Captain America: Civil War' Each one taking up a series between issues 20X and 21X or whatever, and I don't know what order to read it in. Any help?
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Greenlit said this about your mom:
Read the main Civil War trade paperback, then go back and read any tie-in (Civil War: Spider-Man, Cap, Iron Man, etc) you're interested in.
Bingo. What he said. If you can pull a full torrent off the net, they're usually assembled in order, but frankly if you're not interested in a given group (the X-Men story, for instance, was largely tangential and not REALLY necessary, while some of the X-Men-related stuff like X-Factor and so forth was worth at least taking a peek at, and things like Heroes for Hire were there solely to launch a new series) it's not necessary. The core Civil War TPB is all you REALLY need, while everything else fattens up the Earth-based MU during the storyline.
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Mightion Defensor fucked around with this message on 07-21-2007 at 04:16 PM.
I was considering buying the six-softcover-book set; by the time I finished those, book seven would be out in paperback, or just wait for that boxed set of seven hardcover books to come out in September, according to Amazon.
Oh well, back to the fun Warhammer and Pratchett stuff now. 
I have decided that the series is, in fact, of the devil. In addition to a great number of subtle things (which were so kindly printed out and put in a large white binder by an angry middle-aged woman I used to go to church with), I have deduced that Harry's age at the end of the book is significant.
At the end of the book, before the epilogue, Harry is 17. 19 years later (The epilogue), he would be 36. Obviously 36 = 666, the number of the beast. Gadani fucked around with this message on 07-23-2007 at 04:10 AM.
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Verily, Greenlit doth proclaim:
Finished off House of Leaves today. Good (and difficult) read, probably one I'll be coming back to a few years down the line for a second encounter.Oh well, back to the fun Warhammer and Pratchett stuff now.
I was about to say earlier in this thread that House of Leaves was one of several books I started but never finished because it was too tedious and absurd, ha ha. It's even worse how all the author's fans act like it's OH SO SCARY because the house does not follow the laws of physics.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Verily, Stalwart Steve doth proclaim:
I was about to say earlier in this thread that House of Leaves was one of several books I started but never finished because it was too tedious and absurd, ha ha. It's even worse how all the author's fans act like it's OH SO SCARY because the house does not follow the laws of physics.
It was a decent thriller but to call it OH SO SCARY is hilarious hyperbole.
I say it would have been a much better book had it not contained chapters you could omit entirely because they focused on nothing but the particulars of professional photography (well I could skip them, being me) or horribly out-of-place psychological essays.
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Greenlit said:
hyperbole
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Verily, Bloodsage doth proclaim:
How do you find 40K stuff that doesn't suck? The Eisenhorn series is the only one I've found that stood up to even a cursory look in the bookstore, in terms of writing style.
Generally stick to Dan Abnett if you want to read the best WH40k novels. Especially his Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn spin-off Ravenor (3 books so far).
The new Horus Heresy series (various authors, inluding DA) I found o be very good too. No Dan Simmons, or Vernor Vinge quality stuff, but excellent for WH40k novels.
Edit: Oh, and what Black said. The Ciaphas Cain novels are great too. Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 07-30-2007 at 02:00 AM.
Still have yet to tackle the poetic and prose eddas, those things are kinda scary huge.
I have never encountered detective fiction of such high caliber. I fear everything to follow will have large shoes to fill, and an even larger bottle to empty.
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How.... Mr. Gainsborough.... uughhhhhh:
So who's that chick with the fucked up voice? She was on Comedy Central Presents once.Her act sucked, but she sounded retarded which made me laugh a lot.
Maria Bamford?
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Greenlit wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.I have never encountered detective fiction of such high caliber. I fear everything to follow will have large shoes to fill, and an even larger bottle to empty.
I can't believe I knocked this whole book out in a single sitting at work. Slow days. 
This book has stood the test of time better than anything else I've ever read; almost seventy (published 1939) years old, still fresh and exciting.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Tegadil wrote:
Maria Bamford?
Yes, that's it.
Tackling an American genre with British wit usually doesn't pay off well, but Laurie's nailed it.
