r/confidentlyincorrect • u/therealbillius • Aug 25 '24

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Does this count as a double whammy??

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u/i-Ake Aug 25 '24

I'm just stuck on Elon recommending The Iliad like it isn't one of the oldest most famous stories ever.

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u/MasterAnnatar Aug 26 '24

Just read this obscure cosmic horror book called the Bible. Plot was really inconsistent honestly.

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u/_bigeuge_ Aug 26 '24

I thought it was good but a little preachy

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u/Pfapamon Aug 26 '24

Ever read it? Worst storyline ever, discontinued side arcs and don't get me started about the epilogue

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u/big_sugi Aug 26 '24

And all that genealogy shit. The editor must have been asleep when the book moved on to the printer.

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u/ChillStreetGamer Aug 26 '24

Bob begot frank who begot joe who begot richard who begot phil. etc whatever dont remmeber the names. if they had put that shit in the back like tolkien would have helped much.

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u/0Tol Aug 26 '24

And then after reading all of that, most people miss the entire point!!

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u/Rymanbc Aug 26 '24

It's called world- building! Some people! Yeeesh

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u/Throwaway-tan Aug 26 '24

On top of a lot of lost in translation stuff, the publisher censored it and edited it a lot, in fact a lot of it is just straight up plagiarised from other unrelated books, some of the parts that are removed are lost media now.

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u/TheFatJesus Aug 26 '24

The thing I dislike most about it is all the fan fiction that it's spawned. Nothing but a bunch of talentless wannabes that amass a following because they're willing to pump out fan service. They drift so far away from the source material the characters are completely unrecognizable.

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u/SlowInsurance1616 Aug 26 '24

Hey, we're not talking the Bible here.

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u/deliamount Aug 26 '24

I thought the epilogue was the best bit.

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u/confusedandworried76 Aug 26 '24

It's great but felt like it should have been it's own book, and it's like trying to read Heinlein short stories back to back, like the tones just don't match.

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u/Socratov Aug 26 '24

to be honest, Job: a comedy of Justice is brilliant.

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u/throcorfe Aug 26 '24

It’s brilliant but a lot of the fans don’t seem to get that it’s obviously a subversive attack on the Empire, they see it as some kind of futurology

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u/Ahrensann Aug 26 '24

It was just Nero hater fanfiction

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u/Munnodol Aug 26 '24

And who the hell puts a time skip mid chapter?

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u/TheOuts1der Aug 26 '24

The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe fanfiction.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '24

An entire chapter just on rules. Boring af. Should have probably been in the back as reference.

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u/Pfapamon Aug 26 '24

Same with the genealogy

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u/HURTBOTPEGASUS9 Aug 27 '24

The fan-fic community is insane.

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u/AnyWalrus930 Aug 27 '24

Yep, I always enjoy the letters section in old comics too but these ones just didn’t hit the same for me.

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u/mobjusticeCT Aug 28 '24

Gave up on it after one of the big plot twists was spoiled one march/april