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  • #46
    Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

    W.S. Allen: Nazi Seizure of Power- The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945
    I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

    Asher on molly bloom

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    • #47
      I didn't read the Discworld books in order, and thought I'd read all of them at least once. Then I noticed I'd overlooked Sourcery! Whoo hooo, more Terry Prachett!

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      • #48
        Barely on-topic, but I feel like to rant.
        I was supposed to read 100 pages of The Oxford History of the British Empire. It took me some time to get to this book anyway... the search function in the catalogue does not detect it unless You omit "the".
        Then it turned out someone's taken it. But I found it is also in some other library and spent much time searching for it. But I found it and started reading... I thought, hm, this has to do with the subject, and was checking if I'm reading the right tome, but it was OK.
        But when the last chapter was about India, I thought it can't be right - the guy made a mistake, and wrote that I am supposed to read 2nd tome, while it was 3rd. Now I don't know if I'll manage to do it - but it's his fault, right?
        "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
        I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
        Middle East!

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        • #49
          You should read about India
          THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
          AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
          AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
          DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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          • #50
            Originally posted by Heresson
            ... the guy made a mistake, and wrote that I am supposed to read 2nd tome, while it was 3rd. ... it's his fault, right?
            Q.E.D.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by LordShiva
              You should read about India
              Who are you, Aneeshm?
              Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                Card
                He was getting pretty bad later on, and his run on Iron Man made me think
                Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Lonestar


                  He was getting pretty bad later on, and his run on Iron Man made me think
                  Whoops. Back up a second. I wandered away from Card when, for several years, his stuff was just blah. Are you saying he's gotten good again? What is this [i]Iron Man[/] of which you speak? (I'm assuming he's not the Marvel character of Tony Stark.)

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Zkribbler
                    Are you saying he's gotten good again?
                    No.

                    What is this [i]Iron Man[/] of which you speak? (I'm assuming he's not the Marvel character of Tony Stark.)

                    You assume incorrectly.
                    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                    • #55
                      From Wikipedia:

                      Ultimate Iron Man is a comic book miniseries published in between 2005 and 2006 by Marvel Comics. The story was written by Orson Scott Card and drawn by Andy Kubert. The story tells the origins of the Ultimate Marvel version of Iron Man, who previously appeared in Ultimates.
                      Orson, Orson, Orson He used to be such a brilliant science fiction writer.

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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Zkribbler
                        From Wikipedia:



                        Orson, Orson, Orson He used to be such a brilliant science fiction writer.
                        J.M.S. (I can't be arsed to spell his last name), the creater/writer of Babylon Five now writes Amazing Spider-man and Fantastic Four.
                        Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                        • #57
                          Joss Whedon's done a bunch of Marvel comics as well.
                          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                          • #58
                            IIRC, Orson rails in one of his how-to-be-a-science-fictioon-writer books against writing derivative works.

                            I have nothing against Marvel stuff -- in fact, it's marvelous -- it's just not the stuff Card should be writing. Sounds like he's burnt out and out of ideas.

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