tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post2817554160690815956..comments2024-03-24T02:21:43.001-07:00Comments on Things THEY Don't Want You To Know: {TS/DR}: Why not use ALL the words? (The Best LONG Stories)Brianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01616494058636881575noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-25613259366897214322017-08-17T18:05:22.662-06:002017-08-17T18:05:22.662-06:00Just got my payment for $500.
Many times people d...<b>Just got my payment for $500.</b><br /><br />Many times people don't believe me when I tell them about how much you can make <b>filling out paid surveys</b> online...<br /><br />So I show them a video of myself <a href="http://opinion-surveys.syntaxlinks.com/r/TakeSurveysForCash" rel="nofollow"><b>getting paid $500</b></a> for filling paid surveys.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-68515078569989067272012-07-17T11:35:00.722-06:002012-07-17T11:35:00.722-06:00You are on a soapbox. But I can appreciate the soa...You are on a soapbox. But I can appreciate the soapbox.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-25798421030975140302012-07-17T11:00:47.392-06:002012-07-17T11:00:47.392-06:00Okay, I'm going to try to get in as many of my...Okay, I'm going to try to get in as many of my comments as I can remember, because, as is often the case with your posts, I didn't read this in one sitting, and I don't mind that. The only issue is that I sometimes forget what I want to see, but that's my issue not yours.<br /><br />First, I totally agree, and I'm kind of mad, now, because I was going to talk about this "too long" stuff in a post next week, and you've sort of stolen my thunder. I'll still talk about it, but it will be in my head that you beat me to it. :/<br /><br />My issue with Martin has nothing to do with it being too long, it's that it's longer than it should have been in that he sort of just kept writing because he went off story, so to speak, and I don't really believe he knows where he's going anymore. Robert Jordan did the same thing with a "trilogy" he was writing. I gave up on it after book 9, because nothing at all happens in the first 800 pages or so of that book. That series is still not finished, and Jordan has been dead for years. I think the final book, book 14 of the "trilogy" is due out in 2014 (from a writer working with Jordan's notes). I think Martin is working on something similar, and I'm not interested in starting another series that the author can't live long enough to see through to the end.<br /><br />LotR is not actually 6 books. It was written as just 1 book. The publisher felt it was too long and that no one would read it and they made Tolkien go in and break it down into segments, something Tolkien hated doing, but he was under contract and didn't have a choice.<br /><br />I haven't read any King, yet. I'll get to it some day. Of course, I've been saying that for some 20 odd years.<br /><br />I watched the first season of Lost but haven't managed to get back into it, so I can't comment. However, I think BSG went off track in season 2. It was very apparent that the writers had no idea what was going on as soon as they hit the second season. The show fell apart because they pantsed their way through it.<br />The show you should watch is Babylon 5. That was written as a 5 season story arc before they even began filming, and -that- is an excellent story.<br /><br />I can't back your decision to include Crisis as DC immediately discarded what they did in that series. By immediately, I mean within the year they fell back into all of their old traps and nothing lasting occurred. It was horrible, and the series was very nearly unreadable.<br /><br />On the other hand, Spider-Man did make some very permanent changes to their comic. Spider-Man was the very first comic to allow characters to die. Capt. Stacy and, then, Gwen both died. It was shocking to the comic world at the time, because that had never happened before. And Marvel left them dead for a couple of decades (I'm not sure what's going on with that now, but I've heard that Gwen is back). Uncle Ben died in the pages of the comic, not just as a flashback. The Green Goblin died. He was the first villain, a very popular villain, to be killed off (and he stayed that way for decades, too, before Marvel did bring him back). Peter Parker got married, and that was almost permanent, lasting for a decade or so, before Marvel did some kind of reset (that I haven't read). <br /><br />At any rate, DC's attempt to bring a coherent, unified feel to their world was only them trying to reproduce what Marvel had done two decades prior, and they failed at it and have continued to fail at it even up to their most recent attempt which they've already failed at, according to sources.<br /><br />Anyway... as I've said previously, I fully support your TS/DR campaign. I'm so tired of hearing from people "that's too long." My response is something along the lines of "no, your brain is too short" at this point.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25097758.post-66499059163767845702012-07-17T08:53:51.187-06:002012-07-17T08:53:51.187-06:00Wow. I read every beautiful word. Of course I forg...Wow. I read every beautiful word. Of course I forgot some of the things I was going to say. I should have been jotting down notes. <br /><br />Fantasy books are generally long - but you are saying you don't like George RR Martin? Is it because of the R's in the middle of his name? That bothers me too. Still, he's the champion for long books, I'd think you'd be a bigger fan.Rusty Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887821877521181811noreply@blogger.com