Bobby’s Comments (group member since Mar 15, 2013)

Bobby’s comments from the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group.

Just thought I'd warn you guys that I saw The Martian and it's pretty good.

HOWEVER

You might notice scenes of frustrated rage, near-despair, even fear(!) and a scene where some reflection takes place on being the only man on Mars, etc.

Don't worry! He still never gives up and applies himself to solving his problems AND even cracks a joke or two. So, you're all good.

(For the life of me, I have no idea what they were thinking by adding those scenes...)

Amelia wrote: "Bobby wrote: "I would be shocked if A Discovery of Witches wasn't already in the works at some level."

Hahahah! And, you might have to see it, 'cause the lady liked it!! :P"

God help me.

Though to be fair, she watched the remake of Evil Dead with me. I forgot about the scene where the tree rapes the girl until right before it happened. When said girl ran into the forest I'm thinking, "Oh $#!+!"

Jeff wrote: "Jules Verne for the win! Can't beat the classics!"

I read Jules Verne for the first time, this year. 20000 Leagues Under the Sea and thought it was quite marvelous.

I'd like to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars turned into a finite TV series. Like, each book is one season.

I would be shocked if A Discovery of Witches wasn't already in the works at some level.

Amelia wrote: "Making it even more funny?"

You know how it is. :-D

Amelia wrote: "Because, it was funny?"

I think it was more like it was late and I was $+0n3d.

Amelia wrote: "*cracks up...at both of you*

Points given.

Spooky, the charity shops will be flooded with copies in no time. I'd loan you mine, but I bought an ebook."

I can't remember why I felt the need to put that in code.

Amelia wrote: "Crap, it was done by Disney, and it's rated PG...that maniacal killer robot murders a guy with splattery blood effect and we got a PG rating. Bobby, THIS is the cause of 8 year old sleeping disord..."


I wouldn't steer you wrong, sister. ;-)


Jim wrote: "But don't show the kids a bare female breast or they'll be scarred for life! Ugh."

EXACTLY. I knew I liked you, Jim.

3r€akfa5+ C/u3

Amelia wrote: "Wow, no thread drift. Got it.

So, did Spooky buy the $10 copy of the book or not?"

I'm tellin' you. G33z does not mess around. Try cussing. *low whistle

Amelia wrote: "Spooky1947 wrote: "LOL...it's kinda funny...I rember I was totally into astronomy as a kid...I could only read about it tho...I never could understand how people saw pictures in the sky when all I ..."

That's the movie with the "bad robot/blood spatter"? Wasn't that a Disney movie?

Amelia wrote: "And, "that funky avatar" is 7 of 9! 7 is awesome!!"

Oh I recognized her right away. ;-)

Amelia wrote: "I'm new to your group, not GR. I've been here ages. Longer than I've been married to the Mr! :)"

Poor man must have a name. When you call him "the Mr." it sounds like you guys are already On Golden Pond. In your Depends. With your walkers.

Amelia wrote: "That means I'm oldertimer than Spooky. :)

I think I started in 2007."

I'm all mixed up. I thought you were a newbie. Have you always had that funky avatar?

G33z3r wrote: "Abbott and Costello used to do a comedy bit called "Niagara Falls". You can find it on Youtube. I mention this because I think Station Eleven has become my personal Niagara Falls.

Slowly I turne..."

After reading Station Eleven I would definitely have to say it's optimistic. It's not about subject matter or plot even. It's about tone. And it doesn't even have to be happy happy joy joy or end in a wedding. Notwithstanding G33z3r's abhorrence of said novel, Emily St. John Mandel obviously has a lot of faith in and hope for the human spirit -- and that's the focus of her book. As opposed to say Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, who feel pretty down about the direction we're going in as a species and that is the corresponding focus of their book, which came out at the height of the Cold War and when we were still doing bomb shelter drills. Or Andy Weir who doesn't like to think to much about the state of the communal psyche if he doesn't really have to.

Spooky1947 wrote: "the Drive-In was how I found out I couldn't see like other people could...every time we drove by (we went by it on the way home) I'd ask my Dad, "what's playing at the drive-in?" cause I couldn't s..."

That is a funny/horrible story!

2013? What? I think of you as like an old, old Goodreads timer. Like G33z3r. What made me think that?

Spooky1947 wrote: "years, Bobby, years...."

Hey, do you remember where the "Is science fiction getting more pessimistic" thread is? I can't find it.

Amelia wrote: "Yes, I had to explain to the Mr. (who incidentally isn't a big fan of sci-fi, his ability to suspend his scientific brain and take leaps into the FICTION part of it is stunted) that the movie I am ..."

I love the EVENT of opening night movies -- the big ones. I'm so lucky because my lady is down for going to the movies the midnight before. I love that! Though they did it so much, that they started shifting them to Thursday nights. Not as much fun. And nowadays, there have been so many wanna-be blockbusters that even that novelty has become passe.