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Theon_Greyjoy 06/30/11 12:37:00 PM #1: |
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Taking the rest of the day off work! -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SubDeity 06/30/11 12:44:00 PM #2: |
You'd better go post some teasers in your teaser topic.
...this sucks. -- "I'm not an idealogue." - Terran. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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DidYouMWISMe 06/30/11 12:54:00 PM #3: |
...Words cannot properly describe my jealousy.
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Theon_Greyjoy 06/30/11 12:56:00 PM #4: |
SubDeity posted...
You'd better go post some teasers in your teaser topic. ...this sucks. I will as I go along, but I read so slowly there's no way I'll be done by the time of the actual release. -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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muddersmilk 06/30/11 1:02:00 PM #5: |
Wait, it's actually out now?!
To the library! -- (Maniac64 at work) [Browncoat] ~Board 570901~ All the proteins, vitamins, and carbs of your grandma's best turkey dinner, plus 15% alcohol. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Theon_Greyjoy 06/30/11 1:03:00 PM #6: |
muddersmilk posted...
Wait, it's actually out now?! To the library! It comes out July 12. Amazon.de started shipping copies on Monday and I jumped on that before they caught the error. -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AsurasKordoth 06/30/11 1:06:00 PM #7: |
Oh I heard about that but thought it would be the German copy for some reason...
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muddersmilk 06/30/11 1:18:00 PM #8: |
Lucky.
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Theon_Greyjoy 06/30/11 4:19:00 PM #9: |
I'm on the third chapter and unfortunately it's going to be a while before I get to new material...GRRM read a handful of chapters at signings and I read the summaries on the internet. Kinda wish I hadn't done that now, but I'm sure I'll do it again for TWoW.
Not a whole lot happening now but the prose makes it enjoyable. -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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YoboD 06/30/11 4:19:00 PM #10: |
So jealous right now.
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AsurasKordoth 06/30/11 8:17:00 PM #11: |
Honestly GRRM is not that great of a writer... He gets unnecessarily long winded all the time. Like the time Littlefinger explained why Harold was "the Heir" which for some reason necessitated going over like the entire Arryn family history.
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/01/11 5:23:00 AM #12: |
He definitely has a tendency to get long winded but he has a way with words and dialogue, and especially fleshing out characters.
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AsurasKordoth 07/01/11 11:44:00 AM #13: |
I guess I should blame his editor(s) if anything. There are so many unnecessarily long winded passages that they definitely should have had him cut.
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charlie811 07/01/11 12:56:00 PM #14: |
But we DID need to know that history to know why Harry was the Heir.
He can't just be like: "Harry is the Heir" "Why? And heir to what? "The Eyrie. And he just is." Really? If anything I think he spends too much time describing dinners and clothes. -- SS FC -4770 0124 8756- Name: Red ... Copied to Clipboard!
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JonthePenguin 07/01/11 1:33:00 PM #15: |
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AlecTrevelyan006 07/01/11 2:15:00 PM #16: |
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Iubaris 07/01/11 2:18:00 PM #17: |
You best not be postin' spoilers, son!
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snailien 07/01/11 2:20:00 PM #18: |
I'll have to just keep reading the 1000 pages of Ninja Turtles comics I just got until the 12th. At least I have that comfort.
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agesboy 07/01/11 4:04:00 PM #19: |
I lost my copy of A Feast for Crows and can't find it anywhere. Wasn't worrying about it because I thought GRRM was working in Valve time.
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/02/11 3:38:00 PM #20: |
About 220 pages in and it's still mostly in the early stage where not much crazy happens. Bran finally had an awesome chapter though. Funny how I find myself looking forward to Bran's chapters the most and Tyrion's the least.
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tcaz2 07/02/11 3:47:00 PM #21: |
Theon_Greyjoy posted...
About 220 pages in and it's still mostly in the early stage where not much crazy happens. Bran finally had an awesome chapter though. Funny how I find myself looking forward to Bran's chapters the most and Tyrion's the least. This is blasphemy. I don't believe you. -- http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2664/7b7aaa038007832d461b28c.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/02/11 3:50:00 PM #22: |
Well Tyrion's are entertaining, but his story just seems the least important. The last Dany chapter was a bit of a bore though so I guess now I'm looking forward to her chapters the least. The North>The East so far pretty easily.
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AsurasKordoth 07/02/11 11:50:00 PM #23: |
Blasphemy, Dany chapters can never be boring.
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AlecTrevelyan006 07/02/11 11:52:00 PM #24: |
I hate you so much.
And Dany chapters can definitely be boring. She has some good chapters, but she's not exactly batting 1.000 out there. -- ##Alec ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/03/11 1:30:00 AM #25: |
AsurasKordoth posted...
Blasphemy, Dany chapters can never be boring. Tbf I'm not a Dany fan like a lot of people are. I enjoyed most of her chapters in ASoS but that's about it, so take that as you will. Actually for ADwD so far, the proper word for her chapters is "frustrating" more than "boring." -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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SubDeity 07/03/11 6:17:00 PM #26: |
Hmmm...I'm hearing "frustrating" a lot in regards to Dance. What exactly does that mean?
BTW if you don't mind I'd really like to have an IM convo about the book sometime, so if you are willing it'd be really cool if you logged on for a while. -- "I'm not an idealogue." - Terran. [Evil Republican] Play Der Langrisser. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/03/11 7:02:00 PM #27: |
It means that I want Dany to be doing different things than what she's currently doing. I'm on AIM now and I sent you a PM.
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Bran_Stark 07/03/11 7:16:00 PM #28: |
Theon_Greyjoy posted...
Bran finally had an awesome chapter though. This makes me happy. I knew this book would be good to Bran. -- Winter is coming ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AsurasKordoth 07/03/11 10:47:00 PM #29: |
Is it "frustrating" like how Arry spent CoK and SoS running around Westeros and getting kidnapped left and right? That was pretty frustrating.
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/04/11 6:38:00 AM #30: |
AsurasKordoth posted...
Is it "frustrating" like how Arry spent CoK and SoS running around Westeros and getting kidnapped left and right? That was pretty frustrating. Yeah I guess. You want the plot to go in different ways than it is currently going. -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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tcaz2 07/04/11 7:12:00 AM #31: |
Isn't that literally like every book in the series though?
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/05/11 6:48:00 AM #32: |
I guess, but I wouldn't say Jon and Dany's parts are doing the unexpected...more like the uninteresting. The rest of the POVs are pretty great so far though.
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DidYouMWISMe 07/05/11 9:00:00 AM #33: |
I will make this one criticism of Martin, I never found the later books as unpredictable as the first one, in large part because I quickly learned that any and every Stark reunion would not happen, and every tragedy that could be inflicted on the Starks would be inflicted upon them.
Mind you I love this series, but grimdark twists where "everything horrible that could happen to the Starks will happen" isn't much more unpredictable than "the heroes will always win" The best twist Martin could throw in about now is two Starks unexpectedly running into each other IMHO, but I guess I understand why he feels all happiness must wait until the endgame -- The Legend of Snake: http://tinyurl.com/3cal86z The LoS Instruction Manual: http://tinyurl.com/3jlax8h ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Theon_Greyjoy 07/05/11 10:31:00 AM #34: |
DidYouMWISMe posted...
Mind you I love this series, but grimdark twists where "everything horrible that could happen to the Starks will happen" isn't much more unpredictable than "the heroes will always win" The best twist Martin could throw in about now is two Starks unexpectedly running into each other IMHO, but I guess I understand why he feels all happiness must wait until the endgame Well I'll say this for ADwD, there has been one big twist that isn't something bad happen, and isn't s*** hitting the fan. -- EndOfDiscOne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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