The Fellowship of the Ring
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Am I the only one who hates this book?
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Nov 12, 2014 07:12AM
I think that's an excellent way to put it Nichola.
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Tim wrote: "..
I apologise if I'm wrong with Danielle, but it seems that people are jumping on a bandwagon of hate, which is surely just as bad as loving the books just because lots of other people seem to do so?
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Ah, but you're only seeing ONE tiny facet of its Grand Scheme...
What you're referring to (and you're right) is what makes this what the Amanita elsewhere refers to as a "Hate Thread", as distinct from what it (no doubt) refers to a "Love Thread". It has been observed to initiate both types, in its penetration attempts.
It no doubt has other categories as well, in the nomencalature of its "Research" - in which the unwitting Earthlings are participating as Experimental Subjects or, to use the common vernacular, "Lab Rats".
(Now shut up and get back in your cage and go press the food bar for a reward-pellet! The Amanita has ways of "Dealing" with overly "Inquisitive" Lab-Rats!!)
Anamika wrote: "Duane wrote: "Tim wrote: "..
I apologise if I'm wrong with Danielle, but it seems that people are jumping on a bandwagon of hate, which is surely just as bad as loving the books just because lots ..."
What am I having exactly?
Somebody is.Though most are able to bring some consisency to the debate
♪~Kelly~♪ wrote: "In my opinion, I enjoyed it very much. I think I will consider it my favorite book ever. The reason I suppose why it is "worshiped" would be because of the fact that is it the best fantasy book ev..."Try
The Golden Compass, forget the movie if you saw it.It didn't include anything controversiaL so as not to ffend anyone, especially,, The Church.but there is enough in the book to get offend everyone. it's a trilogy.
I don't like the book either. It can't suspend my disbelief and I can't keep track of who is a hobbit or an elf or giant and I don't much care to.
It really boils down to personal opinion. As with all things, everyone has likes and dislikes, and they do not always overlap. I personally loved the books, as they resonated with me at some level, while others will not find that same resonation. This is fine, though. It is the reason that there are so many genres and styles out there. This is a good thing; could you imagine how boring it would be if there were only one or two styles or genres to pick from? That is not something I would enjoy. So, long story short, read what you enjoy and do not disparage others for reading what they enjoy, whether you understand it or not and take pleasure that we have the shear amount of diversity that we do.
Laura wrote: "I don't like the book either. It can't suspend my disbelief and I can't keep track of who is a hobbit or an elf or giant and I don't much care to."Wow....if that's your biggest reason for disliking the books, you're kind of an idiot huh? I could understand not getting into Tolkien's prose or whatever, but you seriously couldn't keep track of simple names?
The derp is strong in this one.
Yessss... To the derp side, you will turn.
Hallie wrote: "Chris wrote: "Laura wrote: "I don't like the book either. It can't suspend my disbelief and I can't keep track of who is a hobbit or an elf or giant and I don't much care to."Wow....if that's yo..."
And why is that? Are you a sock puppet for the Space Fungus? Opinions child, everyone has them...and it's my opinion that if one can't keep track of a character's name and decides to write off a book as worthless because of their own faulty memory retention skills, that is a reflection of their own feeble intelligence and not the author's fault.
AAAGGH!!! NOOOOOooo!!IT'S MUTATED!!!!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...
AnD it's deploying **DRONES**!!!!!!!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/13/bi...
Clearly NASA has been infected! NASA Ames is a major CyBER CENTER!!!
WE MUST WARN them before it's 2 L8!! The Amanita Flatulensis will use the Fungus Drones to INFEST THE WORLD!
The name has changed . . . Guess we know why the Amanita said she wouldn't be around for awhile.
Deceitful, much?
What a total waste of the internet :(
Hallie wrote: "Tim wrote: "What a total waste of the internet :("Well then leave."
Will that change my opinion if I do?
Hallie wrote: "I'm afraid you don't know why I told I wouldn't be around.Chris, do you think you can be a little more sensible?"
Well, for whatever the reason, you lied.
Again.
Will the madness ever end???
I think what Tim means is that the Internet ate an Amanita and got wasted.
ICE
It stands for I Can't Even.
OH DON'T MIND ME I'LL JUST SPAM YOU WITH A HOT BRITISH ACTOR YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW
SHOULDN'T YOU BE STUDYING?
It's 3:58 AM in Cali right now...HAHA SUCKERS BYE!
Hallie wrote: "And what was my lie? So far, pretty much your whole existence.
But if you can't tell when you're lying when everyone else can, or just plain old have no concept of what constitutes lying (when you do it), you've got some serious personality disorder goin' on there.
Oh, and from reading your ersatz reviews, if your supposed career path has anything to do with writing or being literate you really should go find something else.
Duane wrote: "AAAGGH!!! NOOOOOooo!!IT'S MUTATED!!!!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...
AnD it's deploying **DRONES**!!!!!!!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/13/bi......"
We must ask ourselves though, what kills off fungus for good? Extreme cold. Clearly the answer is freezing the vile creature into a giant Space Fungus popsicle and sending her into the far flung reaches of icy Hoth so she can never hurt another innocent again! It's all so simple! ;)
Does cold work on space fungus? Isn't space inherently cold? So would the fungus just go dormant . . . until the next stop . . .
"...what kills off fungus for good? Extreme cold. Clearly the answer is freezing the vile creature into a giant Space Fungus popsicle and sending her into the far flung reaches of icy Hoth so she can never hurt another innocent again! It's all so simple!"well, AS I mentioned earlier, the Special Weapons Division of Galactic Space Command has developed "Agent Black" as a countermeasure against the Amanita Flatulensis or "Space Fungus"... However it does have its drawbacks since any backspatter of the black goo from the disintegrating Amanita is extremely corrosive, which has resulted in the unfortunate loss of several (fearless, intrepid) Space Command agents when firing the Agent Black delivery system (usually a handheld Glorrk canister projector) too close to the approaching fungoid fruiting body (see depiction earlier in the thread...)
However much as with the (very similar, as you have noticed) invader portrayed in the 1950's film "The Blob", yes, freezing the spAmanita does work, though it can require freezing an entire server farm if the infestation has progressed far enough.
Renee wrote: "Does cold work on space fungus? Isn't space inherently cold? So would the fungus just go dormant . . . until the next stop . . ."
Yes, you're right... Unfortunately it is a silicon-based lifeform (Which accounts for its affinity for electronic systems...), and therefore will survive even dead space in spore form (Which is undoubtedly how it got here...)
However, there is more than one way to skin a fungus - having located an infested server, either take off and nuke the entire site from orbit to be sure, or, when one of its interstellar Sporifier vessels is intercepted it can be deflected into the nearest star (op. cit. ref. the fate of Ellen in the South Park episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty")
I would suggest we all unsubscribe from this thread and let it die from lack of attention, but I can find no way to do that on goodreads. *shrug*
Hallie wrote: "Never set your eyes on my stories or poems because they are equally stupid ..."Too late. Not gonna argue with you on that one.
Maybe if you grow up and actually read and think instead of skimming and looking for other people's opinions to write about as if they're your own that could change.
Normally I never discourage someone from trying to write, but regurgitators and the deceitful inspire a special disgust in me.
John wrote: "I would suggest we all unsubscribe from this thread and let it die from lack of attention, but I can find no way to do that on goodreads. *shrug*"It WAS thoroughly dead a couple of weeks ago (Or smelled like it, at least) but then one of the Amanita's paladins, apparently an infected Earth host, resurrected it! So don't blame *us*...
Amanita wrote: "FYI you know nothing about me.
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Don't be so sure! We think we have EVERYTHING we need except the home planet of your mycelial mother node! And we've isolated it to within a hyperspherical volume of no more than 14 parsecs^^4 ! And when we find *that*... ... ...
I was kind of hoping for some technical help in getting this out of my feed, but it looks like goodreads doesn't allow that. Anyone know for sure? There's more than a few I'd like to drop. For instance I've done reviews for a few books but don't really want to join in the discussions. It would be nice to get those off my feed.
John wrote: "I was kind of hoping for some technical help in getting this out of my feed, but it looks like goodreads doesn't allow that. Anyone know for sure? There's more than a few I'd like to drop. For inst..."I'm guessing you mean blocking a few books from the Discussions section so you can only see the ones you want? I put in a request a while back to get rid of all the Young Adult stuff I had read, but they replied back to me that there is no functionality to block out certain discussions. Looks like I'm damned to a million Harry Potter word game threads. I feel your pain. This thread at least has some redeeming qualities.
If you mean getting rid of notifications, I think what Duane brought up will work.
Hallie wrote: "Well I did request for the closure of this thread. And Renee, I didn't get what you wanted to imply by 'Maybe if you grow up and actually read and think instead of skimming and looking for other..."
Of course you don't, dear. There wasn't any implication to it, it was a straightforward statement, no angles, no chicanery, no sophistry (go to www.dictionary.com).
Renee wrote: "Hallie wrote: "Well I did request for the closure of this thread. And Renee, I didn't get what you wanted to imply by 'Maybe if you grow up and actually read and think instead of skimming and lo..."
Far too advanced for Hallie/Amanlinka (sp)
LISTEN TO YODA, PEOPLE
For me this book which i read as a child was fun but when i reread it after having been in the army and having done some traveling and returning home from all that, the book was amazing. It created memories that lasted for a life time. In our lives there is a lot that is boring day to day but we look back on the highlights of our journey and smile. Tolken some how captured that so completely that his fantasy feel like my memories.
Chanel, if her book *reviews* are any indication, she's never cracked the cover of anything but SparkNotes and glossed over the opinions of others. Or watched the movie while posting selfies on Instagram.
Duane wrote:
Shouldn't that be "Sense, none, this makes?""
I thought there was nothing worse than grammar nazis. Now I know there is, I give you: The Yoda-grammar nazi.
Shouldn't that be "Sense, none, this makes?""
I thought there was nothing worse than grammar nazis. Now I know there is, I give you: The Yoda-grammar nazi.
Why THANK you! I always wanted to be *some* sort of Nazi, but could never quite seem to pass the qualifiying exam...There are impressionable young minds reading these threads, though. Shouldn't we take care to see to it that they aren't exposed to incorrect Yoda-grammar, so that when they use it on their braindead high school teachers it will have been correctly constructed?
Hallie wrote: "What are you trying to imply Duane?"That moldy tapioca pudding passed through the digestive tract of a Mongoloid has a higher IQ than you.
This thread. Jumped the shark, it has.
Chris wrote: "Hallie wrote: "What are you trying to imply Duane?"That moldy tapioca pudding passed through the digestive tract of a Mongoloid has a higher IQ than you."
See, Amanita? It's not all THAT hard to understand.
Comprehensible, even by an Alien Space Fungus from another galaxy, it is!!
(If continue in this polyreversed syntactical format we do, all of its electrosynapses reconfigure, the Space Fungus must! Overload and fry, it might!)
No, you're not the only one. I started reading this last April and til June I had only read about a third. Then I gave up... AND I TOTALLY DID NOT LIKE THE STORY
Sock puppet accounts.....the IP address never lies. Nice try Space Fungus, but we humans are too clever for your feeble tricks :)
How can anyone not like the writing of this great author.
Deeptanshu wrote: "Its a great book because it was the start of the fantasy movement." No, no it wasn't. Not by a long shot.
Chris wrote: "Sock puppet accounts.....the IP address never lies. Nice try Space Fungus, but we humans are too clever for your feeble tricks :)"The Space Fungus tentatively extends a pseudopod, probing for an opening...
Sensing movement, intrepid Galactic Patrol agent Chris << *detonates* >> a canister of Agent Black directly on the writhing mass...
The fungoid recoils back up into the infected server stack, frantically shedding mycelia in a desperate attempt to avoid complete disintegration into a blob of primordial black goo!!
YES! We have been pursuing you across intergalactic space for several Earth millenia!And sooner or later, we will find the planet which hosts the mycelial Mother Node...
You can run but you can't hide!!
HA! Yes, the point exactly... Unlike motile lifeforms, a Fungus CAN'T hide. It has to have mycelial growth in order to exist!! (the price it pays for being able to go dormant for millenia if necessary, in order to cross intergalactic space in search of naive newly nascent cyberform civilizations to infect...)
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