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TomHChappell wrote:"Un Lun Dun"'s for kids. Maybe that's why you didn't like it.
Yes, exactly.
I think "Un Lun Dun" might be unintentionally dangerously close to "Epic Pooh" for working-class Londoner kids.

Bob Johnson wrote:I loved Perdido, and enjoyed Scar and Iron. The latter (also later) two seemed less vibrant; perhaps it's best that he took a break from Bas-Lag. I thought he was going to switch genre entirely.
Well, if you believe the Wikipedia article, Perdido Street is horror, Scar is nautical adventure, and Iron Council is western. But, they're all also "high fantasy", since Bas Lag is an entire conworld independent of our prime reality.

King Rat, The City, and Kraken are all "weird fantasy" -- mostly in our everyday world in modern times (I suppose "the City" is Cold War and "King Rat" could also be a particular 20th century decade). But "The City and The City" is a noir detective story; and "King Rat" is a bildungsroman. I haven't read "Kraken" yet, but it seems to be a kind of "King Kong as Cthulhu" thing (or a "Cthulhu as King Kong" thing). I suppose I could be wrong.

I don't know how to slot "Embassytown" as anything but Science Fiction, though why shouldn't it be possible? And also, why does it have to be done?
"Kraken" has been called "cyberpunk", but so far I haven't seen why.
As far as I know I've never read "The Tain".
I think I may have read "A Room of One's Own", and "Hellblazer 250", but otherwise I don't think I've read any of his short stories. I think I want to, but obviously I can't say they're all good before I read them; odds are a few of them are a bit "meh", and odds are the author would agree.

He has been reported as saying he wants to write at least one novel in every genre of novel.

If that's true it might be a while before he repeats a genre; except that all of his novels so far have also fit into one or another sub-genre of either fantasy or of science-fiction (or both).

Bob Johnson wrote:I thought he was Steven Jay Gould at first. I'll take a look.
Before I opened the book that's what I thought too. But they're unrelated.

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"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
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Not that bad. Ever listened to Whitechapel? Some people might like it, but I gag every time I hear it.
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damn man why did you DO that to yourself??

I remember when Saturday linked me these kids' other video ... my first comment to him was something like "man they're trying hard to do some kind of Lonely Island knockoff thing but it's not really funny". But then ... oh. Oh it's not a joke. Oh no.

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Kereb wrote:
Darkgamma wrote:Not that bad.
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Try fucking Whitechapel - Father of Lies
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<Anaxandridas> How many artists do you know get paid?
<Anaxandridas> Seriously, name five.

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I remember their song DANCE from when it was played all the fucking time on the radio and in the discotheques when I was in France in 2007. I listened to it the other day for the nostalgia trip. I wasn't its biggest fan, but I quite liked it, and I especially liked the fact that one of the horrible girls I had to work with hated it.

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<Anaxandridas> How many artists do you know get paid?
<Anaxandridas> Seriously, name five.

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Just finishing up The Polymath by Bensalem Himmich (in English translation unfortunately). It's on Ibn Khaldun, and a very interesting novel. :)

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Vile Brother wanted a CD from a group called Volbeat (Danish metal group). So I bought one of their CDs, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, and uploaded the tracks onto my computer before sending it along to him. It's not a bad album, as there are some good bits, but it's not that spectacular or mindblowing.

Though I am still listening to and thoroughly enjoying Nightwish's Imaginaerum. Those who have not listened to it should. Promptly. In its entirety.
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I think this is the worst song ever. I was going to say some of you may have been conceived to this stinky song, but then I calculated you would have to be about 36 for that to be true, and most of you are too young for that, yet those very same of you are far too old for your parents to have been conceived to it. On the other hand, if you are in your fifties, you may have necked to it.

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I disagree. You may be unaware of some of the more awful things us whippersnappers have and if so you should probably be glad.

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Shm Jay wrote:I think this is the worst song ever.
Worse than Brokencyde, but I'm not sure if it can compete with this.
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Nortaneous wrote:Worse than Brokencyde, but I'm not sure if it can compete with this.
That's... horrendous...
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Yeah she could easily be the villain in a sci fi horror film.

I would however say that Brokencyde is worse than Afternoon Delight. But even more so many songs by Katy Perry and N-Dubz (as you can see, the listeners think both 'feminist' and 'virgin' are insults and this links with the lyrics) for example.

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Something from 1993. And I’m curious as to what you younglings think of it, especially the sophisticated computer graphics.

And here is one for Legion and Lithray and all the other resident libertarians. It features a lilac keytar, and also the back side of a gorilla.

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Here's something with aerobic dance that Finlay may even have heard the first time around, or Pthag.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i98_Lqcryp8

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