Poker nights, drink beer, eat food and gossip.
I'm not planning on reading 50 shades.

And "The Belgariad" by David Eddings a five-book fantasy epic. one of my Fav reads as a kid. The movie would be way better than (gay)lord of the rings
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:26, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

did you just imply that EDDINGS is better than Tolkein?
seriously?! Eddings is formulaic 12 year old's fantasy
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:27, Reply)

unlike Tolkien
Lol
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:29, Reply)

Tolkien just rambles on and on and on and ariston

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:30, Reply)

alot of it's pretty racist and misogynistic

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:39, Reply)

Wow Rory are you white knighting me?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:41, Reply)

tolkiens not only a Racist and Misogynist
but more unforgiveably deeply boring
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:43, Reply)

this.
Rory is 100% here.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:43, Reply)

Fuck will the internet break if I agree with you?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:47, Reply)

i'm very agreeable

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:48, Reply)

Rory speaks a lot of sense.
His role on OT is like Lear's Fool.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:48, Reply)

I was 21 when I finally got round to reading tolkein
and I read the whole hobbit/LOTR set in one go. I fucking loved them.
The films bored me rigid though. I don't think I've managed one yet without falling asleep about half an hour in.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:40, Reply)

you just have no imagination

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:47, Reply)

You're probably right.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:51, Reply)

you do realise that five-book sci fi/ fantasy sagas are for spastics, virgins and the clinically obese, right?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:28, Reply)

As i said as a kid.
At the time I read them I was a virgin.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:29, Reply)

I am right though, yes?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:30, Reply)

no

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:31, Reply)

Soz, I missed autists and larpers from the list of shame.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:32, Reply)

you're like the guy who inexplicably wrote on of the text books on sci fi
I read for my Masters whose viewpoint was basically 'all sci fi is for losers, except these 3 books i found which actually are very clever and I am very clever for finding them and knowing they are good' while missing all the other literary, conceptual and insightful sci fi in the world.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:36, Reply)

especially shatners tekwars

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:41, Reply)

and this classic
www.amazon.co.uk/Shatnerquake-Jeff-Burk/dp/1933929820/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342028628&sr=8-1


(actually, I've not read this one, but my friend has - he describes it as shatnertastic)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:44, Reply)

Damning with faint praise, what?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:45, Reply)

is there nothing william shatner can't turn his hand to

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:46, Reply)

acting, singing, writing...

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:46, Reply)

'the Shat's' cool man

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:47, Reply)

he is the punchline to a tired, casually offensive joke.
Why is Uhura black? William Shatner. Etc etc.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:50, Reply)

But who would win in a fight "the Shatz" vs "The Hoff"?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:50, Reply)

Society.
If they both died as a result.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:51, Reply)

Have a click

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:54, Reply)

'the hoff' is a big guy and twenty years younger
you should really be asking who'd win between the hoff and jan michael vincent
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:55, Reply)

Are they allowed to use KITT and Airwolf?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:59, Reply)

I like Gibson and Ballard's sci fi stuff.
But I draw the line at fucking sagas and serials. If an author is that tedious that they want to discuss slavery, technology, fascism, genetic engineering, then fine, go ahead. I just don't see why they fan't just make their point concisely. A good author knows when to stop, a sci fi fantasy one knows when spinning out their didactic shit to 8 books long will wring the most amount of cash out of Warhammer players.

I'll stick to magical realism and literary fiction thanks.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:43, Reply)

Yep you probs are right.
In my defense this was in the days before the Interweb
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:31, Reply)

Dune?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:31, Reply)

It was OK.
Micheal Moorcock's books also ok
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:32, Reply)

Dune as well.
I still lol at the film. What was Lynch thinking?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:33, Reply)

the film misses a lot of the points of the books

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:36, Reply)

Ah yes, the points.
Didacticism.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 18:46, Reply)