Usually I avoid Ain't it Cool News. I just find it incredibly annoying on so many different levels. But I was skimming it today and saw that apparently Orson Scott Card had released "micro-bits" about Ender's Game without my knowledge, and thought, "Boy, I can't wait to see if the gang at Hatrack has heard about this!"
Then I read it, and realized the news came straight from the forums. Did I miss something here?
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Not really, no. I pretty much avoid that kind've stuff. If it's offensive to anyone on here, I apologize, I just thought it'd be neato to see that Hatrack was popping up elsewhere, but there are idiots out there, as it turns out.
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The Ain't it Cool talk backs are actually quite entertaining to read. I've gotta say, the people who post in those things come up with some of the most original insults and uses of vulgarity I've ever read.
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I don't find insults and vulgarity to be admirable or fun. Maybe that's why I rarely, if ever visit AICN.
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"This should be a syndicated show or a 6-8 hour mini-series. It's ****ed at birth. Orsen please pull out and wait for a better deal and wait until you can get a studio to bank roll the thing so that they can afford to work with the child actors. And if it never gets made, no problem! You still have a wonderful book and the knowledge that after you die your kids (if you have any) will eventually sell the rights and a crappy movie will be made really fast and you won't have to deal with all the headaches. You'll be spinning in your grave but you won't have to be frustrated. But what the hell do I know. "
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It's a sad thing when someone doesn't know whether the author of a book they like has children or not. A sad, sad thing.
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quote:But a beautiful girl whom i am trying to impress LOVES the book and asked me to read it so we could talk about it. I am far to busy with comic books and the "Hollywood Babylon" books to actually read this, can some one give me some footnotes so i can BS my way through a discussion or 2 with this lady?
quote:Let's see... he called Diary of a Mad Black Woman "one of the best movies you'll see this year", claims that James L. Brooks "is a better director than Martin Scorsese could ever hope to be", lambasted About Schmidt for "hating average Americans" but had great praise for Napoleon Dynamite, declared The Passion of The Christ to be pretty much the greatest movie ever made (for the usual reasons) and just generally praises the literal-minded and sappy while complaining (quite shrilly, too) about movies that require a bit of thought or go someplace that isn't utterly predictable. And his politics are just as idiotic. He's written some great books, but the man has been off the deep end for a while now. www.hatrack.com if you don't believe me.
1) I thought he said he didn't like Napoleon Dynamite
2)I didn't know you could be shrill in a written column
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You didn't miss anything, Book - it's over on the other side under the discussion of Petersen as director, if I'm not mistaken. So many threads, too few memory cells - sigh.
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"Just read the book, it's a great quick read. If reading Ender's Game can get you some poon, you can read the comic books later. Remember... vagina trumps comic books - all of the time."
I so have to include this in a sig somewhere.
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