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Started by Syt, March 16, 2009, 01:52:42 AM

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Ed Anger

The Cain W40K books are actually tolerable.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

The Brain

Never touched a 40k novel. Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader RPG books are what I read these days. The space marine RPGs hold no interest.
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Sophie Scholl

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 03, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

:thumbsup:  Exactly why I like them.  They're great mindless pulp sci-fi fodder.
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Scipio

Finally finished The Demon Princes series by Jack Vance.  Great stuff.
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There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
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Just got back from the local PB bookstore. Left with Mote in God's Eye, a couple Michael Moorcock and a Fritz Liber book.
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jimmy olsen

Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 03, 2012, 08:58:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 03, 2012, 08:50:23 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 03, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

Like fiction and shit?

Both the fiction and the RPG rulebooks and companions.  As far as the fiction goes, I started with the Horus Heresy series.
Try the Ciaphas Cain series.

Also, you guys know any good books on Ancient Greek sexuality/gender?

Probably won't be able to find it on kindle, but worth a shot.
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Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Ideologue

Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 05, 2012, 07:07:13 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 03, 2012, 08:58:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 03, 2012, 08:50:23 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 03, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
Whenever I want to turn off my brain, I pick up some WH40K stuff.  Talk about checking out intellectually.

Like fiction and shit?

Both the fiction and the RPG rulebooks and companions.  As far as the fiction goes, I started with the Horus Heresy series.
Try the Ciaphas Cain series.

Also, you guys know any good books on Ancient Greek sexuality/gender?

The Iliad.  The Odyssey.  The Oresteia.  The Trojan Women.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2012, 01:46:47 AM

The Iliad.  The Odyssey.  The Oresteia.  The Trojan Women.
I've read the first three.

Not what I was talking about though, as you're well aware.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Ideologue

Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Razgovory

Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2012, 02:26:00 AM
Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.

Indeed.  The Greeks took an abnormal delight in humiliating women.  You should see some of the more risque pottery that's been uncovered.
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Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2012, 02:26:00 AM
Then you've learned the ancient Greek approach to sexuality and gender: powerful men can fuck what they want, and women are worthless.
Thanks Sherlock, I wouldn't have guessed.  :rolleyes:

I want to see the complexity and detail of it all.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Ideologue

#1062
Greeks of a socially inferior status would rage greatly when their rape chattel was taken by Greeks of socially superior status, and the Muses would sing of it.  But they'd be even more angry when their homosexual partners died, because men are actual people.

Also, it's important to kill your rape chattel's existing children at or around the same time you kill their previous owner.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Ideologue on February 06, 2012, 07:15:06 PM
Greeks of a socially inferior status would rage greatly when their rape chattel was taken by Greeks of socially superior status, and the Muses would sing of it.  But they'd be even more angry when their homosexual partners died, because men are actual people.

Also, it's important to kill your rape chattel's existing children at or around the same time you kill their previous owner.
While you certainly have a way with words, this is not a scholarly dissertation. :contract:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point