Sci-fi/Fantasy recommendations

[Malthus]

Not going down the grumbler rabbit-hole, sorry. 

  I didn't think you had thought about what you were saying to me.  Try to avoid responding to what I write about fantasy from now on, okay?

Gods, so predictable.  I could have written your script. 

[Razgovory]

In future, let me summarize what Grumbler says, he never disagrees or mocks me or anything.

[The Brain]

Look for my fantasy novel Big breasted chick knights fight the evil big boobed Witch on Amazon Kindle.

One of these days, I'm actually going to write a book. And yes, it will be suitably wacky.

Can I have the TV rights?

Gor's Anatomy.

[Ed Anger]

Look for my fantasy novel Big breasted chick knights fight the evil big boobed Witch on Amazon Kindle.

One of these days, I'm actually going to write a book. And yes, it will be suitably wacky.

Can I have the TV rights?

Gor's Anatomy.

 

[grumbler]

Gods, so predictable.  I could have written your script. 

As I could have written yours.

Someone: makes a point
Malthus:  You are defining things so I am wrong and you are right.
Someone:  I haven't defined anything
Malthus:  Nope, I am not going to play the "definitions" game.
Board: 

[Tonitrus]

One of these days, I'm actually going to write a book. And yes, it will be suitably wacky.

Funny you should switch to that avatar just as I am showing parts of Gung Ho to my econ class to demonstrate differences in working cultures. 

I just assumed Ed was between a rock and a hard on.

[Razgovory]

Gods, so predictable.  I could have written your script. 

As I could have written yours.

Someone: makes a point
Malthus:  You are defining things so I am wrong and you are right.
Someone:  I haven't defined anything
Malthus:  Nope, I am not going to play the "definitions" game.
Board: 

I could have written one.

Malthus:  You are redefining what I say!
Grumbler:  No I'm not, I never... Oh God, I think a bee has flown has flown into my ear!
Malthus:  That's right, in time you will all learn to fear Bug-Jew!  Ha Ha Ha!
Grumbler:  Help me, it's stinging my brain!
Malthus:  Now you'll know what all the 'buzz' is about!  No wait, that sucks.  Gimmie a moment and I'll think of a good one.
Grumbler:  I don't have a moment!  I'm dying, tell everyone on Languish that... that Raz was right, cause he's always right.
<drops dead>

Fin

[Eddie Teach]

Shouldn't it be a mosquito instead of a bee?

[grumbler]

Shouldn't it be a mosquito instead of a bee?

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon

[Eddie Teach]

Raz is not my enemy. At least, I hope not.

[Razgovory]

Shouldn't it be a mosquito instead of a bee?

"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon

"Je Suis Napoleon"
-Napoleon

[Eddie Teach]

Also, I think Malthus would play the "buzz" line unashamedly and with gusto.

[Razgovory]

Shouldn't it be a mosquito instead of a bee?

I don't think a bee Mosquito can fly from the ear canal to the brain either.  Who cares?

[Neil]

Quit faggoting up the threads, grumbler.

[Agelastus]

Yeah, I don't get that at all.  The last three movie (and, probably, many or most of the books, though I haven't read any of them) are not very good, but they aren't bad on the scale of Goodkin or Brooks (or the kid who wrote that apparently successful ripoff of LOTR with the dragons in it). 

Goodkind is, if not the worst author I've ever come across, certainly a member of the top three worst. I tried reading his first book many years ago and gave up somewhere around page 100 or so. By which point I already disliked both of his main characters, let alone his "prose".

Everything I've heard since makes me glad of that decision.

Brooks, however, I've always found to be readable even if his early books are derivative tosh and his later books seem determined to contradict bits of his earlier books. I'd certainly rate him on a level with a good deal of the Star Wars EU (and actually better than at least 20% of it, particularly the bits of the EU that the EU itself has airbrushed from history.)

Never tried Paolini (?); never wanted to. The jacket blurb on his first book failed to make it sound worth my time.