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Club409

The best damn waste of time!

BOOKS DO YOU READ THEM

mike
Total posts: 2298
10/8/2014 3:28 AM
(Updated 10/8/2014 3:35 AM)
Ooh takes me back! Read that in high school when I was on a sci-fi run along with Starship Troopers (which was a reallly good book despite its terrible movie adaptation) and of course Enders Game (which v was kinds enough to reread with me prior to watching the movie- of course movies are never as good but squinting real hard and pinching yourself and repeating "movies are never the same as the book" it was pretty good ok I guess). I still need to finish Dune :(Can I say that sometimes I have mixed emotions about what authors /.directors intended x to mean? Although I do love seeing the final product as the creator intended (eg NO SPOILERS) I also like the idea that the story take on a life of its own outside of the author and inside each reader and just like a good song that to you was about you and your high school girlfriend and you read an interview and the songwriter say oh yah that was about a cat pooping sometimes I'd just rather say sorry bub once it's out there it's not yours any more and I don't wanna hear it. Plus sometimes their ability to articulate what something means in English is exceeded by their capacity to express it in another medium- like mark Rothko said "silence is so accurate." Not always but sometimes.
Drew
Total posts: 5110
10/8/2014 5:57 AM
Wasn't 50 shades of gray originally a fan fiction? Guessing he predated that and was trying to pioneer a market that wasn't throbbing with anticipation yet

A lot of people brought up the story ownership argument when Lucas kept making re-releases and bad prequels but he was undeterred maybe the world spanning media conglomerate Disney will save us now tell you what if they release a remastered but unaltered original trilogy on bluray I'll be on board
Drew
Total posts: 5110
10/8/2014 11:05 AM
Upon further consideration I believe I missed an opportunity in my previous post and would like to replace the word "pioneer" with "penetrate" for maximum effect
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
10/8/2014 3:57 PM

Starship Troopers? Ugh. I read that last summer after hearing how much better it was than the movie and thought it was terrible. 10 pages of action to start the book that is then never mentioned ever again. The rest of the book is one big flashback to his training droning on and on about how great his fascist instructors and their teaching methods are - essentially making it a manifesto of his personal political beliefs. The movie on the other hand is regarded as a terrible action flick but it's actually a brilliant hilarious satire of Heinlein and his hard-on for the military-industrial complex. Verhoeven made it the way he did because he was so disgusted by Heinlein's manifesto he saw no other option than to mock it tongue-in-cheek.

mike
Total posts: 2298
10/9/2014 5:03 AM

:( way to micturate on my childhood.  I'll admit I don't remember much about SST and I don't think i was all that politically-minded at the time but I thought the message was anti-war but honor-fetishist.  

Although you have to admit a world in which being hard-line right-wing die-for-something-or-die-for-nothing guns-and-wars-solve-everything is synonymous with being "correct" would be a fun one even if it is fantastic ;)  

Also on the topic of story ownership - eff Boondock Saints II

Oscar what song plays in your mind when you see your avatar?

Oscar
Total posts: 1323
10/9/2014 3:03 PM

Sorry didn't mean to! It wasn't even really what he said just that I had always heard it was a great sci-fi story but it turned out to be a blatant manifesto with a thin veil of people in positions of power "teaching" the main character.

As for the avatar I don't even remember how or where I found it many moons ago but the obvious answer is some sort of dubstep or techno. UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE

Drew
Total posts: 5110
10/10/2014 6:15 AM
two months free audible enter promo code free2 it even works with accounts you've already burned up free trials on so two free months gets you one book a month just remember to disable the subscription after you get both books you want you can still access them after cancelling the subscription that makes 10 books for me so far
acelxix
Total posts: 2394
10/10/2014 7:25 AM

Have you checked your library?  They probably have a decent selection of ebooks and audio books for free.  That's where I got a lot of my audio books for the drive between Baton Rouge and the New Orleans airport.

My library works with OverDrive which has a decent app for most platforms (I use it on Android and Window 8).  It can sync across multiple devices correctly now so I'll start reading a book on my phone when I'm travelling and continue on my laptop when I'm at the hotel.  It works pretty well.  

The only downside is that you might have to wait for a copy to become available (which seems silly for digital copies) but it's free so I can't really complain.

mike
Total posts: 2298
10/10/2014 7:51 PM
"Sorry due to the overwhelming success of this promotion we have run out of awards! Check back for more offers."  -audible
Drew
Total posts: 5110
10/11/2014 10:01 AM
I keep meaning to check on the library situation for ebooks and audio books they've got CD audio books for checkout we've been using for road trips