Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 ...the killer/drug lord of the book you're reading turns out to be a guy who hides incriminating evidence in his sock drawer, uses his middle name as his drug alias, and allows his girlfriend to steal his clothes, with full knowledge that she is trying to figure out who killed her cousin? Why did the wrong person get convicted again? Oh, yeah, cause police are dumb and drugged up high school students aren't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Upon Mars. Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 (Opening eyes as if someone spoke to him) Hum... what are you saying?!? Tell me, what are you referring to? Is this a game of don't you really hate it when...? If it is say so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Plot twists can make or break a story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 Erm, I was ranting about a book I just finished. Also, the fact that I came up with a better plan of action to take when discovered than the villain did saddens me. There's no way you can explain a dead girl in your bedroom. Let her leave, and call the police telling them that your girlfriend had a nervous breakdown, is delusional, ran out, and you're afraid she might be a danger to others and/or herself. Instantly discredits anything she says, and her evidence amounted to a ring owned by the dead cousin, who had left all her material possessions to her. The book is All Unquiet Things, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan inni Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 hehe but if all stories were set irl then we would have none of the great books we enjoy, we would have no lord of the rings, no death note, no Shakespeare, no I robot, no bibles or holy scripts, we would have nothing to read. but next time you see a book you might like read the ending first just to make sure its a good story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I Robot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Yes, because a Japanese manga and LOTR totally belong on a list with the Bible and Shakespeare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Originally Posted By: 1 n33d n0 1n7r0duc710n hehe but if all stories were set irl then we would have none of the great books we enjoy... What's your beef with nonfiction stories, sir/madam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Don't you dare talk about LOTR that way, or I'll throw you into Mount Doom > Death Note is okay. Its a pretty big cult classic. Its I Robot that seems way to out of place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 Sorry, but I don't understand where you thought I was complaining about it not being set in real life. It was set in real life, the characters an plot just turned out to be dumb. Also, still on my rant the "villain" was the only likeable person in the book, and the whole motivation/this is what happened explanation seemed to be retconned in order to have a twist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I just want to watch Ackrovan tossing folks into Mt. Doom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Orcs don't moo...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: Ackrovan Its I Robot that seems way to out of place. You know there is a book called I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, right? Dikiyoba did not realize there was a Death Note manga until just now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Isn't I Robot a novel of short stories, all related and somewhat sequential? Kind of like the Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury or the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft, at least that's the way I seem to remeber it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Yes, pretty much. I suppose it could be singled out from the above list for not being a single story, but I prefer to argue that it is Shakespeare who does not belong. He's not a work of literature at all*! (*Assuming one does not subscribe to any of the various odd theories which argue that he was, in fact, a work of fiction.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 The bizarre thing about I, Robot is the fact that it is completely different than the movie. The characters are the same, sure, but the plot is completely different. It'd be like if you made a movie version of Macbeth and turned it into a romantic comedy, where there was a love triangle between Macbeth, Banquo (who you made a female), and Duncan, and then had all the characters behave nothing like they were actually written. People would go there expecting to see a story about a dude who killed his king and is tortured by it, but then you gave them something so far out of the ballpark it just stunned them. Actually, both the book and the movie were excellent, although the movie did have that cheap 2001-esque trope of "malfunctioning computer takes over" while the books were more an explanation of why the computer malfunctioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: RCCCL Kind of like the Martian Chronicals by Ray Bradbury or the Cthullu Mythos by Lovecraft, at least that's the way I seem to remeber it. Fun fact: the Cthulhu Mythos is only roughly used by Lovecraft and probably not really intended, except maybe as name-dropping for frequent and attentive readers. The Mythos we know and love and fear today was actually codified by others. —Alorael, who is sure dread Cthulhu will one day arise and complain about the errors as he devours everyone. Any day now, really. Just ask your local astrologer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan cfgauss Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 And then he'll say: you just got Cthulhu'd! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody RCCCL Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Originally Posted By: You know that person who...? Fun fact: the Cthulhu Mythos is only roughly used by Lovecraft and probably not really intended, except maybe as name-dropping for frequent and attentive readers. The Mythos we know and love and fear today was actually codified by others. True, so I guess I shouldn't have used that as an example, though most of his stories mention the Necronomicon, which I would wager has been usurped and used more often than Cthulhu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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