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Sometimes Scifi Authors Really Piss Me Off
The Southern Pundit ^
| 03-14-2006
| Vanity
Posted on 03/14/2006 12:26:45 PM PST by JamesP81
Which is a shame, because I love scifi above all other genres.
John Ringo is one of modern science fictions most talented authors. His writing is interesting, entertaining, action-packed, and even thought provoking.
The problem is that his stories are laced with very graphic sex and sexual themes. Call me a prude, but I dont want to pollute my mind with that stuff. There is a time and place for sexuality; in a book for cheap entertainment is not the time or place.
Ringo has right-leaning politics, which is nice change in a best-selling author...
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: culture; culturewars; debauchery; sciencefiction; scifi
Just blowing off steam. I really hate blowing that much money on something...
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:26:48 PM PST
by
JamesP81
To: JamesP81
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:31:48 PM PST
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: JamesP81
How many of his books have you bought?
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:34:08 PM PST
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: stuartcr
How many of his books have you bought?
Fortunately, not many. My step-dad reads them fanatically. I got soured on him with March Upcountry and thought I'd give hime one more try.
Yeah, dumb idea, I know. Make fun of me. I deserve it.
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:36:43 PM PST
by
JamesP81
To: JamesP81
Then don't read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:38:49 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: stuartcr
Slightly OT, but do you know if there is a writer's pinglist on FR? If not, I was thinking about starting one.
Back OT:
It's guys like Ringo that drive me to get published. I'm working on two novels right now, one of them I intend to get published on a Christian label. The other has some of the same themes, but it's not as obvious (think LOTR, except spaceships and aliens instead of swords and orcs).
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:39:06 PM PST
by
JamesP81
To: Yo-Yo
Then don't read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
I doubt Heinlein even comes close to this guy on being graphic. I've read Starship Troopers, and it's tame and prudish compared to Ringo.
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:40:12 PM PST
by
JamesP81
To: JamesP81
No, but if you had said you belonged to his book-of-the-month club, I would have been forced to.
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posted on
03/14/2006 12:54:08 PM PST
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: JamesP81
Starship Troopers was one of Heinlein's "juvenile" books (that's refering to age, not personality) and a great read. His later stuff got a lot more "adult" to the point where one of his characters goes back in time and has "relations" with his own mother. I pretty much stick to his stuff of the Glory Road and earlier variety.
To: JamesP81
So was Ringo, actually. Blowing off steam, that is.
The story that's floating around about the "Ghost" books is that Ringo basically wrote that book in between writing some of his other novels. He never intended to publish it; he'd just written it to blow off some creative steam. But his fans heard about it and started asking for him to publish it. And then his publisher started asking. So, they published it, and it's done really well sales wise. (shrug) I can't really blame him for writing stuff that sells, even if I don't care for it.
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posted on
03/14/2006 2:34:43 PM PST
by
Starter
To: JamesP81
Something I heard many years ago (so don't ask me to prove it, cause I can't) is that many of the "Golden Age" of SC-FI writers got their start writing porn stories.
To: JamesP81
I've read Starship Troopers, and it's tame and prudish compared to Ringo. Well du'h! Starship Troopers was a Heinlein juvenile novel.
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posted on
03/14/2006 6:10:38 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(Voltaire repented on his deathbed EXACTLY as Charles Darwin did)
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