2009-05-26, 20:22 | Link #2202 | ||
Sav'aaq!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hyrule
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Sorry, I work on computers for a living. I'm a little sensitive when it comes to electronics vandalism. Please note that for legal reasons I do not (and did not) recommend that you light anyone on fire. Oh and by the (totally on-topic) way, isn't it interesting that we finally get confirmation that Haruhi is in the Teen Fiction section of the bookstore? **ahem, ahem**
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2009-05-26, 20:28 | Link #2203 | ||
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
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Let me at them, please. I want to teach them a few lessons about PRESENTATION and PROFESSIONALISM. Quote:
In an interestingly painful note, the professionally printed sign above the display of new Teen novels read "Got Angst?" That was when I wanted to burn down the entire store. I'll give THEM angst... |
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2009-05-26, 20:30 | Link #2204 | ||||
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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I have nothing to say about this on topic topic, though. Aside from the fact that the placement of the book in the Teen Fiction section leads to incidents wherein customers ask people who happen to be lurking around the books whether The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is like Twilight if Edward was Asian. Quote:
If that sign was in any way referring to Twilight or any book in the Twilight series, I might have to kill myself. There's no damn conflict in the books. NONE. Nothing that could be considered angst, unless you don't know the definition of the word. Or unless you consider a boring, normal, and average girl moving to a small town and having every person fall in love with her angst. |
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2009-05-26, 20:35 | Link #2205 | |
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
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But I'd think the sign would be more referring to the apparently typical teenager who feels that the whole world hates them and that nothing is fair because their parents won't let them stay out past midnight and buy dangerous substances. So they should bury themselves in poorly-written fiction novels to stave off their 'angst', according to Chapters. Kids who think like that don't have 'angst'. They have 'stupid'. |
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2009-05-26, 20:54 | Link #2207 | |||
GRADE 8 NIGHTMARE VORTEX
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Twilight's written pretty shittily too, but it's so damn popular that it gets its own category. Really, at the bookstore in my mall, they managed to cram in a section devoted to Twilight. Aside from the rows and rows of it at the front of the store, of course. Quote:
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I never really associated reading with giving off any image other than "oh hey, that person is reading a book" or "STAY THE FUCK AWAY I'M READING", but apparently if you read books that have movies or TV series based off of them (or vice versa), or if you read whatever's on the Popular Fiction shelf, you will be as well-liked and popular as the book itself. Sorry. I'm done ranting now. |
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2009-05-26, 21:59 | Link #2211 | |
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
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Also we still have no idea how long Haruhi is supposed to be... given the current rate of plot development, I'd guess about 20ish books. |
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2009-05-26, 23:54 | Link #2213 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Speaking of local papers, YVR's papers are as lame as anything get. I read REAL newspaper back in HK, and that's saying something. I'll randomly repeat myself now. KAISOS' A PEDO! *runs* |
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2009-05-27, 01:28 | Link #2214 | |
Sav'aaq!
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2009-05-27, 01:48 | Link #2215 |
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I didn't believe Attack of the clones was that bad although I wanted to see more of clone wars but I do agree that MKA was horribel to say the least. Unless I see wangsty or angsty Haruhi, I would prefer to keep her as is especially when she seems more interesting with her tsundereness and what not.
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2009-05-27, 02:00 | Link #2216 | |
Sav'aaq!
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hyrule
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Damn, now I need to go drop another $10 and see that Enterprise rising out of the Titanian cloud cover scene again... God, that was absolutely the most beautiful effects shot in film history...
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2009-05-27, 02:04 | Link #2219 |
Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
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Hahaha.
Yeah, Ford improv'd that. None of the good ideas in Star Wars were ever Lucas'. For that matter, he didn't really have much to do with the original trilogy besides producing and coming up with the original idea. It was other, more competent people who should be credited with the film's literary success, not I LOVE YOU PADME BUT SUDDENLY I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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