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]]> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="35px"> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:101226"><img src="http://3.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/2/b/collegehumor.bf47a312f8c3b3d327c1333b4268bdca.jpg"></a> </td> <td valign="top"> Written 2009-11-12 17:00:00 by <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:101226">Patrick Cassels</a> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/school:857"></a> <p> <img src="http://www.collegehumor.com/artwork/icon_likeIt_noLink.gif" align="texttop" /> 335 likes </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr /> http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919848 The Hardy Boys 2009 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:13:00 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919848 The Hardy Boys 2009 nonadult comedy The Hardy Boys are all grown up... kind of. sketch comedy, ed hardy, hardy boys, books, movies, trailer <table><tr><td> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1919848"><img src="http://0.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/8/b/collegehumor.daa49618f475d30507e6731b5d587b19.png"></a> </td> <td valign="top"> <p>Uploaded by <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:1739358">Matt Houchin</a> </p> <p> <img src="http://www.collegehumor.com/artwork/icon_likeIt_noLink.gif" align="texttop" /> 81 likes </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr /> http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918977 Cool Party Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:41:00 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918977 Cool Party nonadult comedy Where's Waldo? Even he doesn't know anymore. sketch comedy, where's waldo, books, party, bleak comedy, <table><tr><td> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1918977"><img src="http://4.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/5/b/collegehumor.73e43f15552232f805321feb89b31840.png"></a> </td> <td valign="top"> <p>Uploaded </p> <p> <img src="http://www.collegehumor.com/artwork/icon_likeIt_noLink.gif" align="texttop" /> 76 likes </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr /> http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1788203 Arnold from The Magic School Bus gets his Yearbook Signed Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:00:00 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1788203 <table border=0 width="360px"> <tr> <td colspan=2>
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]]> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="35px"> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:279"><img src="http://0.media.collegehumor.com/collegehumor/ch6/c/9/collegehumor.a53793ecf48193f7f17979c9baa80605.jpg"></a> </td> <td valign="top"> Written 2009-07-16 18:00:00 by <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/user:279">Jeff Rubin</a> <a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/school:215"></a> <p> <img src="http://www.collegehumor.com/artwork/icon_likeIt_noLink.gif" align="texttop" /> 504 likes </p> </td> </tr> </table> <hr /> http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1776220 5 Great Books That Became Horrible Videogames Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:00:00 -0400 http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1776220 <table border=0 width="360px"> <tr> <td colspan=2> We have all seen a crappy movie based on a videogame.  We have all also played a crappy videogame based on a movie. We often see movies based on books (in fact, for a long time nearly all feature films were adapted from novels).  Likewise, there are plenty of books based on videogames.  Why is it, then, that we so rarely see videogames based on books?  It seems like a no-brainer: videogames based on books would have plot, they would have a built-in audience, they would encourage parents to see the up side to gaming.  There's only one downside--they would suck.  Here's five reasons books and videogames don't mix:

The War of the Worlds (1983)
If you've ever of the ZX Spectrum, you already know more about this game than most people.  If video games on cassette seem very reminiscent of The Oregon Trail, you'll recognize a few other things about this game as well.  While this game involves an alien invasion (thank God they got that much right), your choices in the game are mostly limited to stand still, hide, or run (set a grueling pace!) and frustration was common for players who regularly died of hunger and thirst, presumably because they set their rations too low and no Indians would trade them food or bullets.

Feelies--the future of interactive entertainment
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)
Surprisingly, this book series received several video-game ports.  There was a typical top-down shooter with so little in common with the books they wouldn't have recognized each other at Douglas Adams' funeral.  There was also an adventure game which loosely followed the plot to venture to Magrathea and had a cancelled sequel.  Did I mention the exuberantly difficult optional puzzle near the beginning of the game which, if failed, renders the game unbeatable?  Yeah, there's that, too. There are even rumors of an earlier game which did not have the licensing rights to the title which was stripped of all Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references and released under a different name.

The adventure game came with novelty items called "feelies".  These feelies came with the game to attempt to make it a more interactive experience.  Despite this genius marketing ploy, the game was more or less a failure and its sequel was never released because there was "no solid game design [and] nobody to program it..."  It didn't stop you the first time but, hey, your call.

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06/30/08
Dear Readers-

A few years ago, you may recall our selection of bestselling memoir A Million Little Pieces came under fire after the revelation that numerous elements of that work were exaggerated, or outright fictionalized. Tears were shed, voices cried out in confusion, but together we rose above those difficult times by focusing all our anger and hate on that lying whore-son author James Frey.

My friends, I am a trusting, loving person. So this month, when my assistant brought me a copy of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, I thanked her and looked forward to reading the true memoirs of an adventuring, albino-fighting cryptologist. Well, it was certainly thrilling. But was it true? According to this Wikipedia article I just read, no. It wasn't.

And now Dan Brown must burn for his trespass.

I will not be made a fool of again. While we're waiting for my lawyers to locate and eviscerate Mr. Brown, let's try to put this behind us and look forward to next month's exciting selection: The Fellowship of the Ring, which looks to be an inspiring memoir about a struggling family of Little People competing to win an obscure New Zealand marathon race.

With love,
-Oprah
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The following list can be used in almost any context, from a casual conversation with a hot girl, to that stupid English class you have to pass to graduate. Some of these phrases are in fact almost directly lifted from legitimate and respected book critics. Those fakers.

1. "Oh I just finished reading that! It's so difficult to straighten out my first impressions, though. How did you feel about the narrative development?"
Flip the question back, and soak up all the secondary knowledge you can from the response in the next five minutes. Then just roughly translate this information into your own words, and regurgitate. You know, like what you did with that Wikipedia article on your last essay?
This is also great to use when you're not sure whather you should be scorning or loving the book in question. For example, if your conversational partner loathes it, her subsequent rant on the book's flagrant shortcomings will give you time to think of snide ways to compare the author to Stephanie Meyer.

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