Seven of the top ten books of all time are by Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard... who knew?

TrippyJing

I remember watching Dreamcatcher and having only a minimal idea of what was going on.

Poorochondriac

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

Remember when the space marines decided to fuck behind some machinery and then the guy's dick explodes and out jumps the Leprechaun?

well if it was after the toothpick scene I have no idea because I immediately took the book back to the library

Book? No this was the classic film "Leprechaun 7: Leprechaun in Space"

Which really paved the way for Jason X: Jason Vorheese in Space.

Dude Jason X rules

BYToady

Poorochondriac wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

Remember when the space marines decided to fuck behind some machinery and then the guy's dick explodes and out jumps the Leprechaun?

well if it was after the toothpick scene I have no idea because I immediately took the book back to the library

Book? No this was the classic film "Leprechaun 7: Leprechaun in Space"

Which really paved the way for Jason X: Jason Vorheese in Space.

Dude Jason X rules

Its ok guys, he just wanted his machete back!

Poorochondriac

We loooooove pre-marital sex!

TrippyJing

Jason killing the virtual cheerleaders in the virtual forest was hilarious.

Poorochondriac

TrippyJing wrote: »

Jason killing the virtual cheerleaders in the virtual forest was hilarious.

Really, the rest of the movie is just set up for that (incredible) bit

And I'm okay with that

B_R

Is Alice B. Sheldon worth reading?

nightmarenny

Poorochondriac wrote: »

TrippyJing wrote: »

Jason killing the virtual cheerleaders in the virtual forest was hilarious.

Really, the rest of the movie is just set up for that (incredible) bit

And I'm okay with that

There is also

*Jason stabs a guy

"Its gonna take more then that to kill this old dog"

*Jason stabs him again

"That'll do it" *dies*

Lost Salient

I HEARD WE WERE ARGUING ABOUT HARRY POTTER

The Geebs That Is A Pony

well if by arguing you mean people don't understand what "plot hole" means then yeah

Lost Salient

Hm

No

That's not really what I was hoping for

Oh, well, back to waiting

Oghulk

All of you should read The Pale King

and On The Road: The Original Scroll

also the book of my namesake The Maltese Falcon

Solar

Quoth wrote: »

I agree with Dru

Also I met Donaldson and he looks exactly how I pictured Covenant so something something author insert

I think it's fair to say that if Covenant is an author insert then Donaldson doesn't have the highest opinion of himself

I enjoyed that series a lot but Covenant is hardly showered with positive traits

Poorochondriac

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Oghulk wrote: »

All of you should read The Pale King

and On The Road: The Original Scroll

also the book of my namesake The Maltese Falcon

I'm gonna get to Pale King in a couple of months

I'm on Oblivion: Stories right now, and need to take breaks between Wallace books

Oghulk

The Pale King is pretty great. It's my most noted book right now.

I'll eventually get around to reading Infinite Jest, but that's on the list with War and Peace for 'long books I'd really like to read but holy shit are they long'

Quoth

Solar wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

I agree with Dru

Also I met Donaldson and he looks exactly how I pictured Covenant so something something author insert

I think it's fair to say that if Covenant is an author insert then Donaldson doesn't have the highest opinion of himself

I enjoyed that series a lot but Covenant is hardly showered with positive traits

Also Donaldson lived in India where his dad worked with lepers, as I recall

I should really finish the series but I can't deal with so much bleakness anymore

Solar

I honestly like it but I can in no way blame anyone for not being willing to put up with that, yeah

Harry Dresden

Bucketman wrote: »

YaYa wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

YaYa wrote: »

man, you fucking nerds spend 5 pages talking about fantasy plotholes and nobody brings up the fucking Goblet of Fire

for shame, internet

I thought I knew you

What's the plot hole in goblet of fire?

okay so, Barty Crouch's entire plan involves tricking Harry into touching a portkey that takes him to Voldemort

he executes this via the relatively circuitous method of getting Harry into the tri-wizard tournament and all but rigging it so he wins, and thus can touch the portkey (being the tri-wizard cup) to fulfil his plan

but

a portkey can be literally anything, the book makes a point of it

and Harry is around Barty Crouch all the time as well while he's disguised as Moody


so why go through the trouble? Why not ask Harry to just hand him a book and WHISH

Because (are we really spoilering Harry Potter?)

Making a big public display is better. My thought was that Harry was suppose to win, get his ass killed, then the Death Eaters would pop back with Voldy at the helm all "Fuck your shit look who we killed!"

They can make it a public display by putting Harry Potter's corpse in Diagon alley on Hogwarts doorstep.

PiptheFair

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

jason lee played that character in the movie

fuck you king

Druhim

Solar wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

I agree with Dru

Also I met Donaldson and he looks exactly how I pictured Covenant so something something author insert

I think it's fair to say that if Covenant is an author insert then Donaldson doesn't have the highest opinion of himself

I enjoyed that series a lot but Covenant is hardly showered with positive traits

Well yeah, but that's kind of the point. The book is primarily about this guy coming to face the fact that he has this darkness inside him and finally being able to let it go (albeit by dying). I mean, the primary antagonist is basically Covenant's darkness manifest as a spirit. It's kind of like how in Lost, the conclusion of the whole show is about everyone coming to accept all the fucked up decisions they've made and come to peace with them.

Old Red Ink

B_R wrote: »

Is Alice B. Sheldon worth reading?

If you mean Alice "James Tiptree" Sheldon, then yes. "Warm Worlds and Otherwise" is an excellent collection, and it gets bonus points for Robert Silverberg's hilarious-in-hindsight introduction where he argues that Tiptree couldn't possibly be a woman because "his" writing style is clearly masculine.

Old Red Ink

Poorochondriac wrote: »

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Oghulk wrote: »

All of you should read The Pale King

and On The Road: The Original Scroll

also the book of my namesake The Maltese Falcon

I'm gonna get to Pale King in a couple of months

I'm on Oblivion: Stories right now, and need to take breaks between Wallace books

I am generally not a fan of Wallace's short stories, but Good Old Neon from Oblivion is truly incredible. And quite sad, in the context of Wallace's personal problems. And also kind of terrifying because of how much I identify with the narrator.

Solar

Druhim wrote: »

Solar wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

I agree with Dru

Also I met Donaldson and he looks exactly how I pictured Covenant so something something author insert

I think it's fair to say that if Covenant is an author insert then Donaldson doesn't have the highest opinion of himself

I enjoyed that series a lot but Covenant is hardly showered with positive traits

Well yeah, but that's kind of the point. The book is primarily about this guy coming to face the fact that he has this darkness inside him and finally being able to let it go (albeit by dying). I mean, the primary antagonist is basically Covenant's darkness manifest as a spirit. It's kind of like how in Lost, the conclusion of the whole show is about everyone coming to accept all the fucked up decisions they've made and come to peace with them.

Yeah I know what the point is

I'm just saying that generally speaking author inserts tend to be a bit wonderful and great etc, the mouthpiece for the writer's obviously correct opinions

Covenant is not really that. He's rather unenviable. Intentionally so, of course, but still.

Solar

Also I think it's fair to say we might want to spoiler block your post there

Druhim

I don't think it really counts as a spoiler when almost no one here who hasn't read the books already will be inclined to do so.

Aneurhythmia

PiptheFair wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

jason lee played that character in the movie

fuck you king

I know it's terrible, but I find the movie endlessly entertaining. It's a perfect complement to those awesome/awful made-for-TV King adaptations from the 90s.

Aneurhythmia

Remember when Jimmy Smits was in Tommyknockers?

Probably not. I bet he doesn't even remember that.

Harry Dresden

Druhim wrote: »

Solar wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

I agree with Dru

Also I met Donaldson and he looks exactly how I pictured Covenant so something something author insert

I think it's fair to say that if Covenant is an author insert then Donaldson doesn't have the highest opinion of himself

I enjoyed that series a lot but Covenant is hardly showered with positive traits

Well yeah, but that's kind of the point. The book is primarily about this guy coming to face the fact that he has this darkness inside him and finally being able to let it go (albeit by dying). I mean, the primary antagonist is basically Covenant's darkness manifest as a spirit. It's kind of like how in Lost, the conclusion of the whole show is about everyone coming to accept all the fucked up decisions they've made and come to peace with them.

I saw Lost's series finale and despite reading threads here about it I have no fucking clue what happened.

PiptheFair

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

jason lee played that character in the movie

fuck you king

I know it's terrible, but I find the movie endlessly entertaining. It's a perfect complement to those awesome/awful made-for-TV King adaptations from the 90s.

it's not even funnybad like langoliers or something

it's just so awful

just

man...

SLyM

anyone have any suggestions for books written around the turn of the (twentieth) century? I have very much enjoyed some I've read recently and would like to find a few more

chiasaur11

SLyM wrote: »

anyone have any suggestions for books written around the turn of the (twentieth) century? I have very much enjoyed some I've read recently and would like to find a few more

Would 1880 count?

Because the Brothers Karmazov came out that year, and it's quite good.

Harry Dresden

Poorochondriac wrote: »

We loooooove pre-marital sex!

Only when we get to see it. Jason X had no nudity or sex scenes IIRC.

Harry Dresden

Poorochondriac wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

BYToady wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

Remember when the space marines decided to fuck behind some machinery and then the guy's dick explodes and out jumps the Leprechaun?

well if it was after the toothpick scene I have no idea because I immediately took the book back to the library

Book? No this was the classic film "Leprechaun 7: Leprechaun in Space"

Which really paved the way for Jason X: Jason Vorheese in Space.

Dude Jason X sucks

Lost Salient

What are you talking about Jason X is amazing

ly bad

Lost Salient

It's no Jason Goes to Hell that's all I'm saying

jgeis

Guys, I have never read any Stephen King.

But I love The Langoliers TV movie.

Harry Dresden

Lost Salient wrote: »

It's no Jason Goes to Hell that's all I'm saying

That's underrated. Its definitely better than Jason X.

Aneurhythmia

PiptheFair wrote: »

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

The Geebs That Is A Pony wrote: »

remember when the dude sat on the toilet because the shit alien was in there and the only way to hold it there was to sit on the lid and hold it in place

and then he was like "oh man I need to chew on a toothpick" but his toothpicks were on the ground in front of him but just out of his reach

the ground that, by the way, was covered in blood from the mad that had died expelling the shit alien

but he reaches forward anyways to get the shitblood covered toothpicks and by shifting his weight it lets the shit alien out and it kills him and his last thought is "my mom always said toothpicks would be the death of me"

jason lee played that character in the movie

fuck you king

I know it's terrible, but I find the movie endlessly entertaining. It's a perfect complement to those awesome/awful made-for-TV King adaptations from the 90s.

it's not even funnybad like langoliers or something

it's just so awful

just

man...

See, the Langoliers is the one that only really entertains me occasionally. A lot of it is just slow and dry. Tommyknockers and It and The Stand are some rich bullshit goldmines.

Dream Catcher has all the painfully hammy domestic bro life in the snowy cabin, and a psychic library, and then there's a military containment, and then there's a really stupid alien boxing match.

laughingfuzzball

Psychic alien shit monster

Antimatter

laughingfuzzball wrote: »

Psychic alien shit monster

did someone mention my name