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HooDooWitch
PostPosted: 2004-05-11 13:44:27
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Ben Blaney somehow managed to post:

>HooDooWitch wrote:
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>>Ben Blaney somehow managed to post:
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>>>Not really. Its like saying: I wont get a Harley because I dont
>>>like cruisers, which is pretty fair.
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>>Not really. Its more like saying I wont even try riding a V-max
>>because I dont like cruisers, which is pretty unfair.
>
>Ok, what about: I wont even try riding a V-max because I really,
>really, fucking hate cruisers in every way imaginable.
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>I dont like the genre of Fantasy. So I dont want to read another
>novel in the Fantasy genre. What is wrong with that?

Not even a quick go? Just around the block?

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flashgorman
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> Ben Blaney somehow managed to post:
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> >HooDooWitch wrote:
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> >>Ben Blaney somehow managed to post:
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> >>>Not really. Its like saying: I wont get a Harley because I dont
> >>>like cruisers, which is pretty fair.
> >>
> >>Not really. Its more like saying I wont even try riding a V-max
> >>because I dont like cruisers, which is pretty unfair.
> >
> >Ok, what about: I wont even try riding a V-max because I really,
> >really, fucking hate cruisers in every way imaginable.
> >
> >I dont like the genre of Fantasy. So I dont want to read another
> >novel in the Fantasy genre. What is wrong with that?
>
> Not even a quick go? Just around the block?
>
What about a street fighter genre? Sort of a half way house.


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Ben
PostPosted: 2004-05-11 16:54:28
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:47:08 +0300, Ben Blaney
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>Ben wrote:
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>>On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:29:01 +0300, Ben Blaney
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>>>I dont think thats true in my case. I just dont /like/ reading
>>>about spaceships and goblins and shit like that. Id rather read
>>>insightful stories about people and about their lives: what they do,
>>>what happens to them, how they react, the way things change, etc.
>>
>>Just because a book uses the former as a scene setting doesnt mean it
>>cannot include the latter. Youve seen my small library and most of
>>it is science fiction. And most of it is stories about people.
>
>Oh I know that. I just find the spaceships and goblins annoying.

In the one Im currently reading, New York is a spaceship[0]. As is
the whole of Manhattan.

Makes for an interesting story.

Agree with you on the goblins though. Ive pretty much stopped
reading fantasy since I realised that its the same story[1][2] no
matter which book you pick up.


[0] James Blishs Cities In Flight,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857988116/026-4738045-1302835
[1] The Quest. Good vs Evil. With an elf, a mage, a human (really a
king or similar but doesnt know it), an evil thing, an object of
power and lots of people riding horses.
[2] Apart from China Mieville who writes some interesting stuff thats
kind of science-fantasy.
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ogden
PostPosted: 2004-05-11 16:54:43
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> [2] Apart from China Mieville who writes some interesting stuff thats
> kind of science-fantasy.

A Brief History Of Time, that kind of thing?

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Lady Nina
PostPosted: 2004-05-11 19:50:15
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:33:54 +0300, Ben Blaney
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>I dont like the genre of Fantasy. So I dont want to read another
>novel in the Fantasy genre. What is wrong with that?

Theyre not really fantasy, honest. FWIW I think youd enjoy Small
Gods. Its a stand alone one, you dont have to be aware of the
discworld background. Lovely religious satire.
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Simian
PostPosted: 2004-05-11 23:01:06
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Ben wrote:
> [2] Apart from China Mieville who writes some interesting stuff thats
> kind of science-fantasy.

The only thing of his Ive read is Perdido Street Station, and I
just couldnt be bothered to finish it. Thinking about it, it is
a Fantasy novel, and I dont usually like them anyway.

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Halla
PostPosted: 2004-05-12 23:11:26
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 19:52:01 +0100, Lady Nina
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>On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:08:48 +0100, Champ wrote:
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>>On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:09:33 +0300, Ben Blaney
>>wrote:
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>>>Just thank your lucky stars that youre not as old as Champ. Imagine
>>>that.
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>Its no good, we can still see the crows feet.

And squinting like that will just make them worse.


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Halla
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 10:03:09 +0100, darsy
blethered:

>Halla wrote:
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>>On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:29:01 +0300, Ben Blaney
>>blethered:
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>>
>>> I just dont /like/ reading
>>>about spaceships and goblins and shit like that. Id rather read
>>>insightful stories about people and about their lives: what they do,
>>>what happens to them, how they react, the way things change, etc.
>>
>>So dogme in book form, really?
>
>Dogme95 is a style of direction - nothing to do with the plot.

Yeah, but it is rather pared down to the essentials, isnt it? I got
the impression that was the sort of book Blaney meant. Perhaps not.



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