Hey, I just mentioned my fondness for Explorers a couple of threads down!

Hey, I just mentioned my fondness for Explorers a couple of threads down!

I'm sure he'll be along.

I'm sure he'll be along.

Indeed, @avclub-808e22af6c33eea22608f30cef458844:disqus .  Fuck dat shit indeed.

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Are you too young to fondly recall him as the fat kid in Stand By Me?

Are you too young to fondly recall him as the fat kid in Stand By Me?

Whist is for dandies.

Whist is for dandies.

Even if you don't care about the work in question, "improving" a much-loved story by shoehorning in some graphic sex (authored by people who couldn't do better than shoehorning graphic sex into much-loved stories) just strikes me as staggeringly juvenile.

Even if you don't care about the work in question, "improving" a much-loved story by shoehorning in some graphic sex (authored by people who couldn't do better than shoehorning graphic sex into much-loved stories) just strikes me as staggeringly juvenile.

Tuber?  I hardly know her!

"Call me, Ishmael.  I have your cat."

"Call me, Ishmael.  I have your cat."

Just writing?  Not to everyone.

Just writing?  Not to everyone.

Ah, Philip Jose Farmer, the L. Sprague de Camp of unrepentant perverts.

Is the idea really just to take the existing sexual subtext and make it graphically explicit?
 
Yeesh, I don't even want to think about what Billy Budd's gonna be like.