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Old 02-11-2015, 07:11 AM   #226
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Having watched it from the start, I believe the initial motivation, though couched in "no one loves the conservatives anymore!" rhetoric, was an attempt to gee up a bloc vote to keep minorities and allies in their place. I don't believe it was hijacked at all, I think it's just on course.
I don't follow the SP logic at all. "The Hugos are controlled by a liberal cabal, and cabals are bad, so... let's fix things by making our own cabal!"

Makes no sense to me.
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I do have trouble finding enough funny/humor to read--in EVERY genre I read...so perhaps it isn't scifi that is dying but humor!!!
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Old 02-11-2015, 10:14 AM   #228
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What, so you'd like to get rid a whole literary genre because you don't like it, depriving the many who do like it of something they enjoy? That sounds like censorship to me. I may not like what you read, but I wouldn't want it to disappear completely, and I wouldn't be happy if it did. There's enough for everyone to read, and no need to read SF or whatever if you don't want to.
Oh for gosh sakes, not again.

I can assure you I'm not actively plotting the demise of a genre, nor am I a government entity with the power to censor your reading.
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In my opinion, yes.
I repeat, have you read The Hunger Games? Or attempted to read some of it? If not, then you are demonstrating your own ignorance.
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Old 02-11-2015, 02:51 PM   #230
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I repeat, have you read The Hunger Games? Or attempted to read some of it? If not, then you are demonstrating your own ignorance.
Ah, I figured out the problem.

Apparently, you find it very hard to accept other peoples' opinions when they disagree with you, and feel the need to (try to) belittle other peoples' rights to have an opinion. That would explain why you are grasping at straws trying to discredit me...

I thought this would go without saying, but sure, here goes: I read as much of The Hunger Games as I could stomach. I believe in order to truly hate a book you need to understand it first.
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Oh for gosh sakes, not again.

I can assure you I'm not actively plotting the demise of a genre, nor am I a government entity with the power to censor your reading.
But that's exactly what you'd say if you were plotting or a government entity...
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Old 02-11-2015, 04:48 PM   #232
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I do have trouble finding enough funny/humor to read--in EVERY genre I read...so perhaps it isn't scifi that is dying but humor!!!
In that case, follow me on GR. I just finished one funny anthology, Unidentified Funny Objects 3 (third in an annual series), and I have another one from the same author/editor in my list of books to process. Really, how wrong can you go with Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma?

I can't promise I can find you funny stuff in every field, but there's some hilarious fantasy and SF out there. Bob Asprin and Tom Holt are only two of the names that come to mind.
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But that's exactly what you'd say if you were plotting or a government entity...
Heh heh heh.
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Old 02-11-2015, 05:04 PM   #234
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Ah, I figured out the problem.

Apparently, you find it very hard to accept other peoples' opinions when they disagree with you, and feel the need to (try to) belittle other peoples' rights to have an opinion. That would explain why you are grasping at straws trying to discredit me...

I thought this would go without saying, but sure, here goes: I read as much of The Hunger Games as I could stomach. I believe in order to truly hate a book you need to understand it first.
Whereas you are a ray of sun-shine Why did you hate it so much? Could you give some detail that is more informational than "drivel" etc?
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Do you have any earthly reason for thinking I wouldn't like Harry Potter, just because I don't like The Hunger Games?
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Do you have any earthly reason for thinking I wouldn't like Harry Potter, just because I don't like The Hunger Games?
Can you answer the question?
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Whereas you are a ray of sun-shine Why did you hate it so much? Could you give some detail that is more informational than "drivel" etc?
Just because we loved something and it's popular, that doesn't mean that everyone will like it. There are plenty of popular SF books that are popular that I don't like.
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Can you answer the question?
Well, I liked Harry Potter until it turned too dark for my tastes. I'd say Hunger Games is too dark for my tastes. I don't even like the blurb much. I have NOT read Hunger Games, but my take on it as comparing it to Harry Potter is that it is probably closer to the books after book 4 than the first 3. But I didn't read after book 4. Or maybe it was book 5 of Harry Potter that I stopped.
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Can you answer the question?
Can you restrain yourself from editing your post and retroactively asking a different question?
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