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tape-leg
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Anyone ever read it? Is it any good? I heard the ending was disappointing.
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Alexisonfire
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I wouldn't say the ending. More like the last 1/3 of the book. I mean, as soon as you hit Chapter U, right about when the characters hit the "n"s, you are pretty much told the exact opposite of everything you'd been told so far in the book. And I mean EVERYTHING.
Also, you are often required to flip back through the book to get what is going on at a certain part. Sometimes you even have to skip FORWARD, which completely spoils the part you are required to skip to.
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« Last Edit: December 05, 2008, 05:31:13 pm by Alexisonfire »
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  [Exeunt, Pursued By Prinny] |
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HUGE 2 tha DORK
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There was a part about abdomen. At the end it said "Also see: stomach" so I go to the stomach part of the book. It ends "Also see: abdomen" so I go see the abdomen part again. But it says "Also see: stomach" so I go to the stomach part again, etc.
I mean, that's so redundant.
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« Last Edit: December 05, 2008, 05:53:42 pm by HUGE 2 tha DORK »
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The new director
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I have to read it and the thesaurus for an etymology class project. It's really interesting the way the two play off each other; one of them is really descriptive; a very "mathy" book, but the other really made me think about things that seemed obvious in the first book in a new light. If you don't like The Dictionary, try reading it with the companion book for at least the first few chapters – it really changes your perspective.
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Bonkava!
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Meh, the ending was disappointing.
*spoilers*
Zymosan, who was never brought up EVER before the very end, was the murderer of Aora the aardvark
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HUGE 2 tha DORK
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Zoot suit is cool, too bad he only shows up at the end.
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Scruffy Scruffington
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It was okay. I didn't get the really long version, since it weighed like, 50 pounds. I read the pocket version, unlike some others. I had to Sparknotes a lot of it, cuz some of the stuff wasn't even explained, or the explanation took up half a page! Jeez!
Don't even get me started on antidisestablishmentarianism! She can die for all I care!
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“It’s wrong, wash bucket. Oh, it would be sweet for a while. But in the back of our minds we would know that I'm a man, and you're janitorial equipment.”  |
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My favorite part was defenstrate.
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HUGE 2 tha DORK
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Chapter P was my favorite, with characters like Perpetual and Penetrate.
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Ground Man
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Am I the only one who didn't like this book? Chapter C completely crumbled my casserole. And don't get me started on that dork "Go". That guy just wouldn't shut up!
Worst book ever. 0/10.
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« Last Edit: December 07, 2008, 04:42:21 pm by that_lufis »
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Bonkava!
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Am I the only one who didn't like this book? Chapter C completely crumbled my casserole. And don't get me started on that dork "Go". That guy just wouldn't shut up!
Worst book ever. 0/10.
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homstar
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I officially cried at chapter T.
Especially the parts about "Transparency" and "Triphosphate"
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HomeStarRunnerTron
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This thread only goes to show how absolutely ignorant I am!
I had no idea such a book existed before! What is it-- a cult classic?!
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PotP: This story's awesome! Can't wait till it's finished! HSRT: Well, if you kill me, I can't finish it, now can I? PotP: Oh...well, I guess not... Spinister Spy |
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Steven W.
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WARNING: SPOILERS!!!!!
This book wasn't anything special. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. It starts off in a very confusing way. The word "a" makes almost no sense, but things begin to become clearer by the word "aardvark." If you make it to the word action, then it gets interesting. Things die down a little when you get to the word "aphids." It's a long time before it gets interesting again. "Be" gives an incredibly long monologue about his connections to the words "am, is, are, was, and were" and he explains his plot to become a dictator and turn the Republic of Dictionary into an Autocracy. This gets you going for a while, but he doesn't appear for the rest of the book.
"Conditioner" gives another monologue about his six acquired definitions and the word "cool" is really not cool at all. He is actually "Cool VI" and he is ultimately an extreme nerd. His father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and great3-grandfather were all awesome, though. Again, he doesn't appear at all for the rest of the book.
The H Chapter is very freaky. In addition to the word "Hell" there are more scary things like "hurt, heavy, hit, hail, and he."
The rest of the book is ultimately uneventful except at the word "Romance."
2/5
EDIT: 750th POST!!!
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GnFnRs
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Rawr! Your mother is a classy lady!
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Holy crap you guys. I just found out that The Dictionary has been translated to other languages! There's El Diccionario,
Le Dictionnaire, Das Wörterbuch, 辞書, Словарь, and a ton of others. It seems as if people in other countries also read books!
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