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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThe high level of detail is what made the setting "real" rather than merely a cardboard backdrop
Now if you want a book with a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of useless detail, try reading Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. He literally spent several pages describing in excruciating detail what the main characters were wearing while attending some function
As for the other book - no, no thank you....
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostActually, The Hobbit and Dune are the only two that really irk me with useless detail. I grant you need SOME detail to make it real - but describing moss?!?!? That was what killed The Hobbit for me - I trudged all the way through but
As for the other book - no, no thank you....
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostYou didn't know if he was a spy. He could be some high level criminal or even someone's body guard. The only thing you knew is that this was someone you shouldn't muck around with.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI liked the Hobbit, but I never could read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. same reason, pages of useless drivel, like the stupid elvish songs.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostStill, a good spy is supposed to be inconspicuous and blend into the background.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostYeah, they made that point several times but Bond was more than just a spy. He was an assassin. The whole "licensed to kill" thing. And his targets weren't political targets but extremely dangerous folks surrounded by even more dangerous folks.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postwell it would go double for an assassin. Just look at Ninjas.
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"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
but obviously Ninjas are no match for pirates.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThe high level of detail is what made the setting "real" rather than merely a cardboard backdrop
Now if you want a book with a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of useless detail, try reading Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. He literally spent several pages describing in excruciating detail what the main characters were wearing while attending some functionI DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostThat's cool. I think I was raised in that period where Disney was trying really hard to make live action films a bigger thing than their animation division, and so it never really stuck with me. I like weird adult cartoons like Fantastic Planet, and Ralph Bakshi's stuff, and when those adult/gory Japanimation films first started getting big in the late 80s and 90s I was into that stuff for a bit (movies like Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell), but unless it's something like The Secret of the Kells, Kubo and the Two Strings, or Persepolis, I don't really go too far out of my way to watch it. I have a coworker who only watches those films though. He's got kids, which makes sense, but his only frame of reference when it comes to film is Pixar animation type stuff. I really liked Wall-E, and the first Incredibles movie, but like I said, the sequel didn't really do it for me.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostNow if you want a book with a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of useless detail, try reading Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros. He literally spent several pages describing in excruciating detail what the main characters were wearing while attending some function
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostYeah, like I said, it really depends on the adaptation. I think people are crazy when they complain about, say, the Lord of the Rings adaptations, which seemed to me as faithful as possible given the format. On the other hand, people HATE the Dune adaptation, where I prefer it over the book. Arguably the 60s Batman show was a straight adaptation of the 50s and 60s comics of the time. I was a little too old for the whole TMNT thing, but I know that the initial comic was pretty dark, and framed on Frank Miller's Daredevil run.
Edit To Add: and the new Watership Down on Netflix. I found that to be a very good adaption of the book (why yes, a book about rabbits having a war happens to be one of my favourite books)Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
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Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View PostI grew up when Disney Afternoon was a big thing, so some of my favorite stuff goes way back. I also watched Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and other really old stuff. I like anime too, some of my favorites are Rorouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho Spirit Detective, and oddly enough Ultimate Muscle. More recently the DuckTales reboot, and Gravity Falls have been some of my favorites. Gravity Falls is something you might like with the horror/mystery theme. It is one I can recommend for most ages.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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