Posts by Che Tibby
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meh. i'm thinking these LOTR haters are the ones who didn't get the audition they were after.
fran: "i'm sorry mr. green, there are no ginger elves"
mr. green: "but i'm wearing my sequin tights!" -
LOL. did you see the Onion story "Diebold releases election results early?
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<sigh> <writes "hadyn" in the little book.>
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why would your grandmother want to explode a thursday? was it wednesday and she was desperate for the weekend?
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@hadyn. yeah, but LOTR was one of the c20th's first big effort to write a complete hero mythology, with back story.
a good comparision is star wars. i *freaking loved* that series.
but i was only 8.
adults hate LOTR, but kids love it. assuming they can make their way past that first 100 pages of tosh. why have a barrow-story when the hero can be reborn passing through moria? that tolkien guy needed to get his sequence right...
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blame Wagner
ah... i missed the whole r@pe of the valkryies connection... silly me.
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Ffs che, I'm posting a fluffy opinion on someone's blog, not submitting a goddam term-paper.
chortle.
and i'll admit freely that tolkien was desperately in need of an editor. that whole epic should have been *one* 500pager.
moving right along: stephen donaldson and the white gold series. anyone read his subsequent space opera? that brother might need a shrink for his r@pe fantasy fixations... i put down the first book and never went back.
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@joe
The World War Two backstory of Zadie Smith's White Teeth takes place in a setting that's rather reminiscent of The Zone in Gravity's Rainbow. Nice imaginative bit of literary thievery.
you're assuming she read it.
@jake
How do the people of Gondor feed themselves?
sigh. lembas jake. two nibbles and you've enough strength to take up the quill and continue to be gondor's financial centre. you're overlooking that much of the third age was peaceful, we just got the bit where the wheels fell off.
which is good. because the place is pretty fricking dull otherwise...
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Took me around nine months of weekly washes to finish GR.
LOL. i have a sneaking suspicion this took place in australia.
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I'll bet then that you haven't read Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Maybe it's because it's - as far as I know - the only non-SF thing he ever wrote.
Also The Man in the High Castle isn't half bad.arse. all of it.
half the problem is that i read a biography of him first. which made all the motifs *incredibly* transparent and contrived.
the other half is that i stopped taking drugs a long time ago.
two of the three books craig mentions i haven't read, but am afraid to because of over-exposure to steaming piles of crap in the form of his pulp novels.
on other news, i did read, and enjoy the crying of lot49. i only got as far as the S&M nazis in gravity's rainbow before i was distracted by a shiny object that wasn't written in the longest most convoluted and mind-numbingly confusing sentences piled one atop each other in an attempt to create a style of prose i experimented with years ago and rejected because the other people who got into it were stoners that i happened to be living with at the time and were genuinely amused at the sorts of crazy ideas i was coming up with and regurgitating for them in these long crazy stories that would have driven any sane person round the fcking twist.