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Seven of the top ten books of all time are by Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard... who knew?
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While I wouldn't normally wish this on anyone, I sincerely hope her thesis is rejected.
This was for her MA.
I have no idea how she wrote even 15 pages on this.
Though the idea of Jesus coming back as a lion in a sweet fantasy land and kicking it with some kids and Santa clause and fighting witches is better then computers ergo visave
Can this be the House of Leaves thread instead
I fucking devoured that book
And then you find out
It certainly wasn't the most original concept but the execution was superb
the first movie in and of itself... it's not like jesus holds the copyright on coming back from the dead
Man, every book thread turns into a dang old House of Leaves discussion at some point.
It's a good enough book, but I really don't get why it's THE go-to choice for so many people when a topic turns to dense lit.
Actually he does. If you come back from the dead you have to pay royalties. He also owns the copyright on the Happy Birthday song and if your family sings it you have to pay up before getting into heaven
But if you want to get into some Vonnegut, or maybe discuss A Confederacy of Dunces, I'm down
Because it's a book everyone had read and its not just another sci fi or fantasy novel, or a young adult thing like Harry potter.
Though Tolkien is straight dense lit and I will fight anyone who disagrees
I just wish he wasn't such a snob about it, like he's so great for having done it, but
It's hard to fault the guy for having a holier-than-thou attitude when he actually is holier than thou
The only way I can make sense of the parallel would be if she went through Campbell, but if you take Campbell that far then everybody is Jesus
Tolkien is dense lit with several authorial conceits, particularly with regard to the poetry (he says songs, but since we can't hear them...)
The thing that Tolkien did really well before anybody else was to flesh out a really interesting world that wasn't ours, and he made a bunch of unique creatures and lands and peoples all with their own distinct identities and character
Don't get me wrong, I love Tolkien, and his story arc is very solid, but he makes a lot of excuses to have a long journey when it could have been a very short one due to the nature of magic and eagles in Middle Earth, I suspect for the purposes of having his hobbits explore as much of his world for the reader as possible
There have been exceptions, obvious GRRM aside, the Belgariad is an awesome light read where you don't care that the characters are never really in true danger because they are bad fucking ass
Silk may still be one of my favorite characters in the fantasy genre
yes.
they've been sealed due to a trademark dispute with KFC
Well. Correction. I cared enough to finish it. Then I put it down and said to myself, "Self, that was a waste of fucking time". Then I didn't really think about it until just now.
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Then you have Hyperion which is like fantasy/sci-fi/noir/adventure/religious subtext and it's like what.
When it comes to Tolkien I feel like no writer was more able to build on a world and make it alive then him. Martian does this a bit too and so did Jordan. But Tolkien is still the master
But the atmosphere of that book was really intense if you're the kind of person who lets a book just suck you in until you feel like you're part of the story, experiencing it for yourself
I do this because that's how I liked to read books as a kid and I never stopped, so it's one of the few times when I feel like a kid again, even when reading very dense lit
Some undergrad departments at my school require a Senior Seminar paper, essentially a Bachelor's thesis. It's twenty-five pages of research, expected to be original, significant, and publishable (by the same meanings usually attributed to a grad thesis, but thankfully to a much lesser degree). This one guy decided to do his on a current attempt to revive the Student Volunteer Movement. An appropriate topic for his major, and one that could certainly be done well.
His only sources as far as I could gather were the public (non-academic) website for an organization advocating the movement and one of the textbooks for a 101 course so broad it's part of the school's gen ed requirements.
His was suspiciously absent from the papers made available for review and he later asked me if the prof in charge was known for being particularly harsh (he's not).
This was the same guy I was bitching about in the school thread for not knowing how to cite.
I really don't ever see that happening. HoL is designed with incredibly exacting page layouts, and eBooks have to be compatible with so many devices that getting a universally consistently-displayed page is quite impossible
MAYBE somebody will put it out as a .PDF, but that's be a pain in the ass to read on anything other than a big tablet.
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It was like reading Evil Dead 2 by Stephen King or something
actually there's a reason the eagles didn't just take everyone there
and it makes total sense given everything else in the books
i just do not remember what it is
except for when he was bossing them around
jdate and the sequel were like 50 times weirder in the original internet versions
Like I said, he basically made a bunch of handwavy excuses about why they totally need to hoof it the entire way there
Is the movie out? Because I really want to see it
ehhhh
it ain't great
it's got paul giamatti as the reporter but ehhhhhhhhhhhh
it ain't bad, but it ain't great. don't go out of your way to see it.
Yeah it's out. I think it's already on DVD?