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FireTurtle

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Reply #25 on: October 09, 2011, 01:47:19 AM
I join the many listeners who have expressed relief that their brains weren't malfunctioning the day they listened to this tale. Celebrity boxing = ok. Weird misbegotten tech hidin inthe woods = best aspects of Terry Brooks, but also ok. Whatever else was going on = WTF?

I love some surrealism but, I couldn't get in the "just enjoy the trip" groove that this story apparently required. Glad I'm not alone.

And Scattercat, as usual, your comment scored 1 Big Guffaw. Well done, your post was more enjoyable than the story itself.

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Reply #26 on: October 12, 2011, 02:32:40 PM
Am I the only one who felt like this was some sort of "re-tooling" of "Apocalypse Now" ?
An abstract story in which a special operative is sent on a non-nonsensical, deadly journey into a strange jungle under false (or at least not clearly defined to him) pretenses to follow a mystical leader.

I'm afraid I didn't like the movie much either but at least it had a good soundtrack.  :-\


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Reply #27 on: October 12, 2011, 02:44:38 PM
Maybe if the reader had put The Ride of the Valkyries as background music during the "fight scene"...

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Reply #28 on: October 12, 2011, 04:11:29 PM
Quote from: Kaa on October 12, 2011, 02:44:38 PM
Maybe if the reader had put The Ride of the Valkyries as background music during the "fight scene"...

 ;D

I was thinking "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" but that works as well.


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Reply #29 on: November 09, 2011, 07:43:20 PM
What just happened?


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Reply #30 on: April 05, 2012, 08:24:41 PM
Finally jumping back into Escape Pod after catching up on my Podcastle backlog. And I'm going to be honest, it wasn't that bad. Maybe because before I listened to this, I listened to Gene Wolfe's Golden City Far, and as far as surrealistic dreamscapes went, I *much* prefer this one.

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