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Click for full imageJuanPaul Comments: “Hey babe, sorry to crash the party, but did you use up the last of the bronzer?”
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JuanPaul Comments: “Hey babe, sorry to crash the party, but did you use up the last of the bronzer?”
Published 1990
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May 15th, 2017 at 7:02 am
“Once you see it” tag, maybe?
May 15th, 2017 at 7:32 am
Huh. Must start checking GSS at this hour, if this is when the new ones appear.
Not sure which of the two humans here waxes the most.
May 15th, 2017 at 8:03 am
‘Popular Library’. Popular with whom?
May 15th, 2017 at 11:23 am
I hope that’s a highly radioactive nuclear core at lower left he’s just pried open with his knife and they’re both about to die of radiation poisoning.
May 15th, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Replace ST-TNG’s holodeck Moriarty with Dick Blade….make it so.
May 15th, 2017 at 1:32 pm
‘Anything you can do, I can do better! I can do anything better than you!’
‘No you can’t.’
‘Yes I can!’
‘No you can’t.’
‘Yes I can!’
‘No you can’t.’
‘Yes I can! Yes I can!’
‘I can stab the bright glow with my big X-acto!’
‘Well I can bean a beastie with only my bikini!’
etc., etc., etc…
May 15th, 2017 at 1:51 pm
Re: the blurb – if you want to go to the toilet, just press pause.
May 15th, 2017 at 2:33 pm
Cover aside, what editor let that bizarre title pass? It may have something specifically to do with the story, but it’s hardly the type of title that would entice someone to pick the book off the shelf to check it out.
May 15th, 2017 at 2:36 pm
@MT – apparently it’s a Bysshe:
https://allpoetry.com/Life-Rounded-With-Sleep
May 15th, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Oh, “SLEEP”! I thought it said sheep…
May 15th, 2017 at 3:21 pm
After taking a closer look at that monster, I don’t think anyone is danger from the thing unless they willfully jump into one of its mouths.
May 15th, 2017 at 3:34 pm
@BM: If life is rounded with sleep, rocks are rounded with water acting in response to potential gravitational energy and fluid flow.
May 15th, 2017 at 3:50 pm
Clearly this author has a penchant for “deep” and sort of poetic sounding titles. Also, I am guessing the author sees his work as one vast interconnected piece, so we should string his titles together to get Men Like Rats Rounded with Sleep. That’s worth at least a dissertation or two.
May 15th, 2017 at 3:52 pm
As a man, I would like to clarify that I do not like rats.
May 15th, 2017 at 3:52 pm
“Ok, you try to put the lizards to sleep by flaunting your round parts. I’ll just, er, a, um, slip through this convenient doorway and make my escape. Don’t worry, I’ll go get help and come back for you!”
May 15th, 2017 at 3:56 pm
What happens next.
May 15th, 2017 at 4:07 pm
@Tom: That’s a simile. ‘Men, like rats, scurry away at the first sign of danger’, for example.
May 15th, 2017 at 5:39 pm
Isn’t it annoying when the monsters attack while you’re right in the middle of getting undressed for some intimacy?
I think so.
May 15th, 2017 at 5:50 pm
I had assumed that the blue whatnot in the sky was some sort of ceiling, even though an indoors setting wouldn’t explain the healthy vegetative growth.
Now I wonder if it’s actually a miles-wide spacecraft hovering over the labyrinth, a la Independence Day.
Cerberus: ‘Hey, guys! The mother ship’s here! They picked up our distress call, we can go home now! Guys!’
Fabio: ‘Don’t listen to him, my darling.’
Rats: ‘Look. It’s been two weeks, and my roots are starting to show. I need my peroxide. I’m leaving with Cerb, and you can keep the rest of my clothes, wherever you’re hiding them.’
May 15th, 2017 at 6:53 pm
Rats are a moderately popular pet, so I’m sure that some men like rats.
May 15th, 2017 at 10:59 pm
@DSWBT: With the blurb saying “game”, I figured the blue ceiling was a circuit board and other computery things.
Basically, this seems to be semi-naked “ReBoot”.
May 16th, 2017 at 12:43 am
@David Cowie: Sure, but then it should say “Some men like rats.” When it says “Men like rats,” it is over-generalizing.
It’s offensive!
May 16th, 2017 at 4:38 am
Bibliomancer@9: Ye gods, man, it’s Shakespeare, _The Tempest_:
We are such stuffe as dreams are made on, And our little life is rounded with a sleepe.
May 16th, 2017 at 5:23 am
@NomadUK—he originally wrote “We are such stuffe as dreams are made on, and men, like rats, rounded with sleep,” but thankfully that was one line he blotted.
May 16th, 2017 at 7:35 am
[Record scratch noise]
Read that blurb again, carefully. What’s the actual message? “The kind of people who play games are afraid to face reality.”
I don’t know whether this was accidental or a “Freudian slip” or a subtle knife between the ribs…
May 17th, 2017 at 1:11 am
No, it’s “the hero of every game”, i.e. the character of Manly Man, Space Marine, Plumber, or jaggedy 8-bit pixel thingy. Reality is when the chap living in the basement turns off the game.
May 19th, 2017 at 2:34 pm
It’s, ah, just gone eight o’clock and time for the hunk inside of your television set to explode.
May 19th, 2017 at 10:13 pm
I didn’t expect that.
November 6th, 2017 at 8:06 pm
It’s not a bad book, but I have poor taste so don’t take my word for it. It’s about a world where virtual reality has overtaken every aspect of life, to the point where the vast bulk of humanity never interact outside the game. The story resolves when the protagonist chooses to unplug, to go out into the world and live deliberately, leaving behind the peurile power fantasy depicted on the cover.
November 7th, 2017 at 1:39 am
@Terren – Spoiler Alert!
November 7th, 2017 at 4:26 am
Huh. I was right about the plot. Mustn’t do that again.
November 7th, 2017 at 9:15 pm
Now wait a goldarn minute — isn’t that the plot of READY PLAYER ONE?