Comments on: Top Ten Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument http://www.popten.net/2009/06/top-ten-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/ top ten lists and pop culture rants Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:34:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Victor Pineiro http://www.popten.net/2009/06/top-ten-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-116259 Victor Pineiro Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:41:38 +0000 http://www.popten.net/?p=3373#comment-116259 Bro, David Eddings just DIED this week! I was going to write him a fitting eulogy on here but found out too late. Brainfart indeed... those books changed my life. Terry Brooks is the margarine to Edding's true butter. The best book you ever read in middle school... (No comment on how they fared upon re-reading them years later...) Bro, David Eddings just DIED this week! I was going to write him a fitting eulogy on here but found out too late.

Brainfart indeed… those books changed my life. Terry Brooks is the margarine to Edding’s true butter.

The best book you ever read in middle school…

(No comment on how they fared upon re-reading them years later…)

]]> By: Jamie http://www.popten.net/2009/06/top-ten-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-114831 Jamie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:25:07 +0000 http://www.popten.net/?p=3373#comment-114831 Hey now ablackstormy, back the fuck off. Sword of Shannara was my favorite in fifth grade. Terry Brooks may have lifted his plot from Lord of the Rings, but his books read like butter. It's a pop music version of Tolkien's classical symphony. If you really want to smell a bookfart, check out the works of David Eddings. The geek argument is on. Hey now ablackstormy, back the fuck off. Sword of Shannara was my favorite in fifth grade. Terry Brooks may have lifted his plot from Lord of the Rings, but his books read like butter. It’s a pop music version of Tolkien’s classical symphony.

If you really want to smell a bookfart, check out the works of David Eddings.

The geek argument is on.

]]> By: Victor Pineiro http://www.popten.net/2009/06/top-ten-ways-to-provoke-a-geek-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-112636 Victor Pineiro Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:35:33 +0000 http://www.popten.net/?p=3373#comment-112636 I have to add my favorite comment from Geekdad's blog- which I agree with 3000%: I chuckled over these… until I got to #3. If anyone ever seriously claimed that in my presence I would be compelled to smack them in the face with the nearest object at hand. Reading Brooks makes one long for gifted authors like R.A. Salvatore, Danielle Steele or the guy who writes local radio ads for the furniture liquidation outlet. Nothing ever written, in any language, has sucked as badly as the Shannara series. They are the “Pete’s Dragon” of literature. - ablackstormy I have to add my favorite comment from Geekdad’s blog- which I agree with 3000%:

I chuckled over these… until I got to #3. If anyone ever seriously claimed that in my presence I would be compelled to smack them in the face with the nearest object at hand. Reading Brooks makes one long for gifted authors like R.A. Salvatore, Danielle Steele or the guy who writes local radio ads for the furniture liquidation outlet. Nothing ever written, in any language, has sucked as badly as the Shannara series. They are the “Pete’s Dragon” of literature.

- ablackstormy

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