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    Image of Jeyl Jeyl
    11/19/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    "who didn't like J.J. Abrams' breezy reinvention of the 1960s space adventure show"

    Me.
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    Image of NigelGallows NigelGallows
    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    If you liked TROTF you might like shiney things like these jingly jangly keys.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Awesome post, more like this pretty please!
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    Image of Supernatural_Canary Supernatural_Canary
    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    God I hated Wanted. For many reasons, though the notion mentioned above about becoming a (nihilistic) ubermensch and subsequently treating everyone else like disposable meat bags for target practice bothered me the most.

    And that last line: "What have you done?" Well, I haven’t dehumanized people around me to the point where I can kill scores of them for my own dubious ends and then imply I’m a hero for it. If that’s what you’re getting at.

    Fuck that movie.
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    11/18/09

    @Supernatural_Canary: Yeah, the actual graphic novel had a much more sensible reason for the last line and the general dehumanization: rather than a "righteous" assassin, the main character is just a selfish supervillain whose power is killing people.

    I've heard the authors did approve the storyline of the movie, so I guess it's their right to mess with the story, but leaving in that last line makes their "hero" still seem like a jerk-off villain.
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    Image of Supernatural_Canary Supernatural_Canary
    11/18/09

    @kagekiri: Hmmm… that’s interesting. I haven’t read the graphic novel, so it could very well be that the context of that line (and of the character, it appears) didn’t translate very well to the screen.

    I could certainly live with the character being a villain, and now that you point out what he was like in the graphic novel, I wish that’s what they had done in the film. But the fact that the movie made it seem as though he was righteous in his actions repulsed me.
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    Image of bipolarber003 bipolarber003
    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    If you think you'll like Avatar... you'll like "My Name is Joe" by Pohl Anderson... the novella the movie is ripped off from.
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    Image of tamahome tamahome
    11/18/09

    @bipolarber003: free good reading of 'Call Me Joe' linked here [www.sffaudio.com]
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment tamahome was starred tamahome was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/18/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    I watched Knowing maybe two months ago, and I must have blocked it to protect my memory of that crapfest, because I don't remember absolutely anything about the movie. Only telling my mom not to watch it under any circumstances.
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    Image of madara madara
    11/18/09

    @Dirk Anger: I'm surprised you didn't try to kill yourself.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/18/09

    @madara: Apparently I trusted my crap-blocking capabilities to do the trick, as they did. I'll take it into account the next time something makes me want to rip my eyes out

    #calendar
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    Image of Mikekearn says hello Mikekearn says hello
    11/18/09

    @Dirk Anger: EDIT: Whoops, wrong movie. Knowing is about how Nic Cage is enough of a genius to figure out Earth is going to be destroyed, just in time to do jack shit about it. Also, kids go to an alien planet and there are vague, shitty references to religion.
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    Dirk Anger promoted this comment Edited by Mikekearn says hello at 11/18/09 7:36 AM Mikekearn says hello was starred Mikekearn says hello was unstarred
    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/18/09

    @The Mikekearn of La Mancha: Ahh I remember now, and Nic stalks the mother of some other kid, they find numbers that are dates of disasters and numbers of deaths... now I remember everything. Damn you!

    #calendar
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    Image of antimatty antimatty
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    if you liked wolverine...... then maybe you should go read a coloring book . #bookvortex
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    Image of MrBuffalo MrBuffalo
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    thank you for the addition of good omens. great book. #bookvortex
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment MrBuffalo was starred MrBuffalo was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Last week I ordered a boatload of the older Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. I suspect I might need someone to tow me to work as I might forget what "sleep" is. #bookvortex
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    Image of Jenimartian Jenimartian
    11/22/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: I did the same thing recently, all great, although hard going (for me anyway). I liked Look to Windward best.
    For interest Iain Banks on the Culture [groups.google.com]
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    crashedpc - Haifisch promoted this comment Edited by Jenimartian at 11/22/09 2:38 PM Jenimartian was starred Jenimartian was unstarred
    Image of Servercat Servercat
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Bolo's Hammer's Slammers

    Hellbore ftw :) #bookvortex
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    Chip Skylark of Space approved this comment Servercat was starred Servercat was unstarred
    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    11/18/09

    @Servercat: ...and if you're looking at giant battle tanks, then look up the Bolo stories by Keith Laumer, who was the best. The Bolos will then link you to the Berserker Stories by Fred Saberhagen. Good stuff.
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    Image of Servercat Servercat
    11/18/09

    @Chip Skylark of Space: Yeah Bolo's are great :D Though to be honest I actually like the Bolo books by David Weber (Old Soldiers) and John Ringo(Road to Damascus) better the Keith laumer ,even though he is the creator. Bolo's just rock so much more then Hammer's Slammers. They should have gotten a mention in the article :(
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    Image of engtech engtech
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    For the last recommendation, the title of the book is missing.

    It's Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks #bookvortex
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment engtech was starred engtech was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/17/09

    @engtech: Huh? #bookvortex
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    @engtech: Guh? #bookvortex
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Now we have a problem. David Drake is one of my guilty pleasures, especially Hammer's Slammers. But to insult me by lumping that in with Transformers, well don't be surpirsed to find 150 tonnes of iridium and steel hovering over your lawn with it's 20cm main gun pointed at your bedroom while it's tribarrel rakes your front door. #bookvortex
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    Image of disatess disatess
    11/17/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: that one got me mad also , David Drake and Robert Heinlein slam together with a plotless transformers . #bookvortex
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/17/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Ha... I'm just saying if they enjoyed that mess, they might like some actual good military SF. :) #bookvortex
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:
    Big Joe - "Hiya Doc, this is Kelly and Oddball, he likes your hovertank."
    Oddball - "Yeah, baby, I really dig your hovertank."
    [Crapgame ( Sotto voce, crying) - "Have you any idea what 150 tonnes of iridium is worth on the Paris market?"]
    Kelly - "I think I have a proposal that might interest you."
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    Image of lorq lorq
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    Why didn't anarcho-syndicaslists like Abrams' "Star Trek"? I'm pretty much an anarcho-syndicalist and I liked it. (Unless you're just doing a little spin on "Only *commies* wouldn't like...") #bookvortex
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    Image of fraying fraying
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    This article made me buy a book. Damn you, Charlie Jane! (By which, I mean, thank you, Charlie Jane.) #bookvortex
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    Image of Oz Mendoza Oz Mendoza
    11/17/09

    In reply to If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love
    "...You'll love Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett"

    Personally, I didn't love it. Just didn't bring the funny, not for me anyway. And I'm a Gaiman fan. I'd recommend "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" for a funny end of the world fix. For a disaster movie on paper, "The War of the Worlds" is still hard to beat. For a different kind of world-ending, there's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami.

    For the apocalypse with magical battles and androgynous boys, there's CLAMP's unfinished X/1999 manga. For a multitude of arcane clues pointing to a New York-destroying conspiracy, see "Heroes: Season One"--oops, I mean Alan Moore's "Watchmen." #bookvortex
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    @Oz Mendoza: Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear, a great book with an end of the world scene that mere cinematic visuals just cannot match. #bookvortex
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