This was too funny for me...as a librarian
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far-trader
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I stopped scrolling after a few. Maybe it's just my current mood but I didn't see humour, or rather I saw it as a poor attempt at humour. Good photoshop skills but that's about it. Maybe you can offer the perspective that got your funny bone?
beowulf2044
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Loved them! But then again, I write for money and should probably take lessons from all of them.
I also enjoyed the Dune parody (though the Mary Sue/Dragon one passed me by).
The DUNE one is right on the mark.
Easterner9504
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Went right over my head I saw book covers and said Dan Burns is a genius. Then realized I missed something reading other comments.
Conan made me laugh, others did nothing. I read Sci-Fi not fantasy so had no base of reference.
Went right over my head I saw book covers and said Dan Burns is a genius. Then realized I missed something reading other comments.
Conan made me laugh, others did nothing. I read Sci-Fi not fantasy so had no base of reference.
far-trader
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Well there's no denying a truth
(...and if I'm guessing right as to why then yes, sometimes I must fight the crocodile
but I'm probably guessing wrong and just blew the whole genius thing... )I've read all (pretty sure) of those (I went back to scroll the full list) and still nothing. I get the points made but meh, no grins. My funny bone is asleep I guess.
Easterner9504
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Your a genius because you saw no humor, I saw book covers, took them as originals, read nothing on them. Said Dan called this right, nothing funny here.
Then realized title changes were point. Based on them they were riffs on pretensions/writing styles of authors meaningless to me.
Conan title was funny but then I thought old SPACE GAMER, Adventurers Not to Travel With, was funny with Captain Quirk and Conman the Barbarian.
Your a genius because you saw no humor, I saw book covers, took them as originals, read nothing on them. Said Dan called this right, nothing funny here.
Then realized title changes were point. Based on them they were riffs on pretensions/writing styles of authors meaningless to me.
Conan title was funny but then I thought old SPACE GAMER, Adventurers Not to Travel With, was funny with Captain Quirk and Conman the Barbarian.
jfetters
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Not sure how many here know the literary concept of the Mary Sue, but follow the link.
I got a chuckle out of the books that I had read, or at least read one of the books in the series, which was at least half of them. I'm not too tied to the authors or stories of any of them except Dune, and I definitely appreciated the sarcasm in that cover.
Madarin Dude
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Couple funny ones. David Eddings one is on the mark I read the first series of six books and then started the second and said this is crap. I found the Stephen R. Donaldson one on the mark too. I read the first book and found it lacking. i have a collection of short stories by him that are amazing. (Reave the Just and other tales)
jfetters
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Me too. I remember reading it as a teenager and thinking, "This guy's the protagonist?" As I got older I understood the more nuanced aspects of the character, but the original impression lasted, I'm afraid.
epicenter00
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue
Usually it's an attempt by an author to insert him or herself into a story in (very) idealized form.
Pretty much the Pern series really does hit all the branches of the "Mary Sue" thing.
Rhialto the Marvelous
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What's the matter with y'all... that Piers Anthony cover... lol rofl... Robert Jordan... bwahaha...
What was the game/setting that founded Feist's writing career? I know he worked on the Midkemia Cities supplement. Was that it?
What was the game/setting that founded Feist's writing career? I know he worked on the Midkemia Cities supplement. Was that it?
BlackBat242
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The only one that did not make me chuckle was the Terry Goodkind one.
Maybe if I had ever read one of his...
Maybe if I had ever read one of his...
Ray Feist and David Brin have dedications to each other in their first books, as well as to a group that they call "the friday nighters". Both went to the University of California San Diego in overlapping periods of time.
Both have an antagonist called "The Duke of Bas-Tyra" in their novels.
The hints are there so to speak.
far-trader
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Purposefully so if I recall correctly, I have a vague recollection of an Anne McCaffrey interview some time back where she hinted or stated as much. Or it could have just been some pundit's inference. Don't really recall. Yeah, fan here
Shelf full of her books. Long buried plans for a Pern Traveller game...beowulf2044
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No shame in that, Far Trader. On the other hand, I wound up doing Traveller on Darkover (I was young, it was a Referee-girlfriend thing, I plead guilty).
Don't get started - they are almost all the same. The guy has a BDSM fetish that gets repeated in every book. Well, up the the 1st 5, then I finally gave up reading those. Now some people liked them, but I saw them similar to the l. Ron Hubbard Battle Earth (or whatever that was) 12 volumes of essentially the same plot rehashed.
