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I am hypnotized, and think I may have to purchase this masterpiece. Behold! Moon People! If you find it hard to believe that this is the bestest book evar, two sample pages are below the tag. Read them and listen to your brain exploding.
I know, you're stunned by the quality of the writing. Check out the author's biography to learn where this level of genius comes from.
I haven't admired an author this much since I read Guy N. Smith's Crabs on the Rampage.
I must say, the style and the quality of the writing are reminiscent of 'Plateforme', the latest book by Houellebecq. :book:
It's still not as good as my poetry. :book:
Hey, I need something to read when I'm on the can.
brilliant.
10 min in MS paint and a little mean-spirited fun.
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My major is not English but even for my untrained eyes this was an abomination of literature. I'm sure there's many more errors in this piece, i just looked for structural, logic and capitalization problems. :help:
The people that gave the book such good reviews on Amazon surely share the stellar mental abilities of the author. They seem to high for me though.
Really, in what for a country do you live where people can actually earn money with writing such a crap that somebody whose mother tongue is not English (me) could do much better? Don't they even employ people who control the authors' grammar and spelling? Really, the decline of American language and culture is already at hand. Frankly, it's already long delayed.
Oh! You mean editors? Well, Editing is a long and expensive process, and since it's clear the author blew most his book deal money on psychedelic drugs... well, you can figure out the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
The reviewers on Amazon must be being sarcastic. Hell, I think the author of the book might even be sarcastic.
I can think of a better use for that paper whilst on the can .... That's published work?? Gah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito
Aaahh...now AT FIRST GLANCE it may appear that US culture is declining. But..not so if one takes a more holistic view, with an application of Deep Text and intertextuality. Then the meaning of this important new book becomes clear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
The Moon is a Sacred entity to Americans. As America leaves the Bush-industrial-military era, and transponds itself from a masculine object - 'Mars' - to a new Obama-change-green feminine era - 'Venus' -, so it passes the celestial in-between stage 'Moon'. The Moon in contemporary American culture then is an object of sublogical vision with postmodern implications for the self-identification of the American subject, or 'Ego' in a post-Freudian meaning.
For example, please note the intertextual reference between the 'Moon' in the ground-breaking book that's the subject of this thread, and the 'Moon' in the apparal below:
The-Mountain-Three-Wolf-T-Shirt apparel
Study the shirt and read the review by B. Govern "Bee-Dot-Govern" (New Jersey, USA), and the Deep Superculture of the United States reveals itself. :book:
a kid at my school has that same shirt. :book:Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Thank you for setting me right about the American culture! Now I'm ashamed what a fool I've been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Sorry America. :embarassed:
I know. It's spreading. See? Far from declining, Americans are transforming themselves into 'Moon People' - as the title of this important new book shows. I see this book as a 'Brave New World' for the 21st century. The author is the new Aldeous Huxley, but reversed. This time, not a dismal and bleak new world, but a glorious future behind the new frontier - the moon - awaits America.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hooahguy
The book is about Americans boldly entering a new phase in their existence. Seeking new frontiers. After the West was won, the pivotal analogy for America's frontiers has been, since the day of Kennedy (the white Obama), the race to the moon.
What is an American? It is a person who seeks out new frontiers, carves himself an existence out of the wilderness. This frontier is both external, in the physical world, and internal.
Now, whereas moon travel in the 20th century was the sole privelidge for only a handful of Americans, in the 21st century, as this book describes, all Americans will be able to seek their inner frontier on the moon. And become 'Moon People'. It is the triumph of democracy, the fullfilment of the American Dream. It is the promise of the Obama era.
This book then, is to literature what Obama is to politics. If anybody can be president, then anybody can be a novelist.
Well, I guess we now know the answer to the question, "what would Vogon literature look like?"
Fixed. If this dude ate shrooms or acid he might actually have developed an imagination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
Y'all have the intenet in France, right? Well, give it ten years, and no matter how dearly and desperately you hold onto your culture, this book will be a bestseller. And WWF wrestlers will proudly march down the streets of Paris.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/41...risburning.jpg
All your braincell are belong to pop culture.
Still better than Twilight.
Reminds me of Harry Potter.
It's a clear level above Harry Potter...Quote:
Originally Posted by Beskar
The scary thing is - obviously the making fun of this book got enough people interested to lift the book up to #525 in Amazon's books sales rank... :laugh4:
EDIT: OMG - the bad sentence structure is contagious...
Maybe that is indeed the best book ever but maybe not as well
Hey, stoners need to make a living too. Live & let live.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
That sounds like a literal translation from german to english and is about as wrong as some things in the book, a more correct way to say this would be "in what kind of a country" if I'm not mistaken; but I fear the constant reading of english forums and chats hasn't done my english grammar much good(another expression that sounds a like slang to me), one more reason to complain often. :whip:Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
Or maybe I should just start reading decent english books like the one above. :laugh4:
To be fair you can't blame the editors... on the link to the biography if you go to the home page it says it is a site run by authors for authors. :uhoh:
If anyone wants a real laugh, work your way through the Amazon reader comments. Hilarious stuff :laugh4:
There's already a moon people 2. Wow. That's quite awesome. I seriously can't wait to read it. I was already so Happy when I read the First. And thought this is unbelievable. And smiled at My family this was by Far the best day in my whole Life. Dude.
Seconded on that. I couldn't decide if half the comments were serious or not but good stuff either way. :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by CountArach
most of thme you could tell that they were joking. i found it funny how one reviewer got really mad because he/she couldnt tell thateveryone else was joking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monk
I love it when Lemur rips from Digg. I get to experience the humor a second time, without sources.
Reminds me of Peter Griffin's Novel "The Hot Chick who was Italian, or maybe some kind of Spanish."
the other best book ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wakizashi
Has anyone else seen the cover? What the crap?
https://img18.imageshack.us/img18/92...oplewhaaaa.jpg
...Beer and crack, I swear to god. It's the only explanation.
I'm going with crappy photoshop skills more then anything else.
And plagiarism. That Cylon-football thingy looks an awful lot like a copyright infringement suit (or somesuch) in the making.
That "cylon-footbal thingie" would be the spaceship from 2001.Quote:
Originally Posted by Watchman
Now you see maybe you're not too far off, looks like the evil cylon ball has 3 docking ports, these are obviously to hook up with the cylinder of DOOM. Since the year 2000, aliens in human form have been using the space shuttle to ferry all the worlds booze & drugs to the cylinder of DOOM where its being sythetically modified for the evil cylon ball people to imbibe, this will bring them out of their century long torpor...Just long enough for them to save one human, (D.M.Courtney! They are evil after all), before they destroy earth!Quote:
Originally Posted by Reverend Joe
Now wtf are the publishers? I'm gonna get paid!
I hear the ladies can't get enough of hot studs in moon shirts:Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...WolfShirts.jpg
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Originally Posted by Beskar
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Originally Posted by CaravelIt's a clear level above Harry Potter...Quote:
Originally Posted by Beskar
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The following is from the BBC web site:
"When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me! Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt,"
another said that
"the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt gave me a +10 resistance to energy attacks, +8 Strength... and I have successfully solved 7 crimes in my city".
Amazon's senior manager of community content, Russell Dicker, said the T-shirt was currently the top selling item in their clothing store.
"The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt recently moved up 2,300% in sales rank," he said. "We are grateful that our reviewers are so passionate."
Publicity shy
However, the firm which actually makes the T-shirt appeared less than pleased at some of the comments.
"The Mountain is a wholesale company and does not sell shirts on Amazon, so this viral assault went under our radar until the shirt made it into the top 10 in the Amazon apparel section," they said in a posting on the Amazon site.
"We appreciate humour as much as the next company, but we don't approve of some of the remarks.
"Not everyone can start out at the top and not everyone from our neck of the woods lives in a trailer or cruises Walmart to hook up."
I guess we're a little late to the Three Wolf Moon party; by the time the New York Times has written it up, it's jumping the shark. (Or nuking the fridge, if you will.)
the guy second from left sorta looks like my professor whos teaching the college course im taking this summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur