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Solice Kirsk posted:There, that's more accurate. Roy Dotrice's heavy wet breathing or a goon's heavy wet breathing? This is important to my immersion.
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Hunky Joe posted:Roy Dotrice's heavy wet breathing or a goon's heavy wet breathing? This is important to my immersion. Gurm's.
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Kavak posted:The TV series is going to be cancelled when GRRM croaks between Seasons 6 and 7 and a library's worth of child porn is found in his desk. Not going to happen... Unless ASCII kiddie porn readable only in MSDOS Wordstar becomes illegal and anyone can find a 5.25" drive to catalog it.
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So Amanda Peet (wife of Benioff) is getting some attention for admitting she originally thought adapting the books into a show was a bad idea. I'm eagerly awaiting the discussions I'm going to get from this FB post: "Amanda Peet is getting a lot of hate for saying she originally thought Game of Thrones was a bad idea, but have you considered that maybe she's just actually read the entire series?" I can just sense people nervously teetering at the edge of the reply button, eager to defend their favorite shows honor, afraid to engage with a dreaded book reader demon...and somewhere deep in their hearts...struggling to admit that this is the dark and terrible truth. Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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 Instead of any of that, someone who I have not talked to in almost 10 years, who I thought didn't actually use facebook just "liked" the pre-emptive reply I put in there saying "ADWD is a bad book". This is literally the only interaction we've had in almost a decade.
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Serious question, where can I find audio versions of the Rouge Prince and the Princess and the Queen?
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kaworu posted:On other side, I've mentioned it before, but my gold standard is Iain Banks' narration of The Princess and The Queen and (as a smaller companion piece) The Rogue Prince. It is absolutely *incredible*. Banks is so freaking amazing doing The Princess and the Queen - he does great, individual voices for every single character! So of course Rhaenyra has her own voice, as does Aegon II and Daemon and Aemond and Criston Cole and everyone. It's a really, really impressive job. Even minor (but extremely memorable) characters like Blood and Cheese or Lucerys Velaryon get their own appropriately memorable and distinct voices. And Banks' own voice is such a deep, rich, hypnotic thing that the only drawback is that it's so nice to listen to that it almost lulls me to sleep at times. Iain Banks has been dead since 2013, pretty sure you mean Iain Glen
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Pong Daddy posted:Iain Banks has been dead since 2013, pretty sure you mean Iain Glen Glen's voice seems perfect for audiobooks, though 
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Serious talk: Decent time to sell my signed first editions yet?
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Fog Tripper posted:Serious talk: The series probably won't be much more popular than it is now, but the crazy people will probably pay more if it's after GRRM dies.
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computer parts posted:The series probably won't be much more popular than it is now, but the crazy people will probably pay more if it's after GRRM dies. I have some limited editions which are going for silly money on ebay. I'm thinking if I wait until the show starts up again there'll probably be more interest in ASOIAF stuff. I'm also concerned the longer I wait, the more people will realise they're not good books.
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Tea Bone posted:I have some limited editions which are going for silly money on ebay. I'm thinking if I wait until the show starts up again there'll probably be more interest in ASOIAF stuff. I'm also concerned the longer I wait, the more people will realise they're not good books. Ah yes the economic principle of the time value of disappointment.
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Fog Tripper posted:Serious talk: Wait until the second episode of this season airs. Everyone will be in full swing by then and it will be early enough that they won't know is a wheel spinning tv season of crappy books.
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Yeah if you really want to sell now you're better off doing it right when the show starts up again or near it's finale. Otherwise just wait two years for when GRRM dies and make bank.
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fgwsss posted:Serious question, where can I find audio versions of the Rouge Prince and the Princess and the Queen? Urdnot Fire posted:Iain Banks would've been closer to the goony Jorah in the books. He did the Princess and the Queen. He has a nice voice. I wouldn't mind seeing him do the rest of the series.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:maybe she's just actually read the entire series?" What is she a time bandit or something?
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Iain Banks is dead?!Big Bug Hug posted:I wouldn't mind seeing him do the rest of the series. Eh?
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For some reason, GRRM's publisher thought they had to announce that Winds of Winter won't be out in 2015.
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kaworu posted:
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quote:Fans really ought to appreciate that the length of these monsters is equivalent to two or three novels by other writers. Other writers who release books every year? Also kinda ignoring the fact that ASoS, the longest, came out a couple of years after CoK.
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Junkenstein posted:Other writers who release books every year? None of them had to deal with the Mayonnaise Knot. Or willy sepsis. Or whatever current malady he suffers from that's going to harpoon TWOW.
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The leaked trailer has a huge lack of Stannis. Reasons to watch series: 0.
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No TWOW in 2015? *absolutely nothing in my life or mindset changes in the slightest*
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Time to go over to reddit and watch fans tie themselves into knots as they try to convince themselves that this quote:as his publisher confirmed there are no plans for the much-anticipated latest volume from his A Song of Ice and Fire series to appear in 2015.
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Junkenstein posted:Other writers who release books every year? yeah really, if Stephen King can put out 2-3 800+ pagers of mediocre crap per year you'd think GRRM could do at least 1 every few years
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Aurain posted:The leaked trailer has a huge lack of Stannis. You've chosen wisely in bending the knee.
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The Berzerker posted:yeah really, if Stephen King can put out 2-3 800+ pagers of mediocre crap per year you'd think GRRM could do at least 1 every few years You misunderstand. GRRM isn't driven by admiration and the promise of cultural immortality. He's driven purely by the contempt he has for us.
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That's it then. No chance - at all - the books finish before the show. None. It's over. We are going to find out how it all ends on the show. Did the publisher realize that was what they were saying? They would have been better off saying nothing at all.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I would laugh soooooooo hard if he forced the HBO show into a hiatus. Show watchers would assault the HBO studios. We'd have a real life battle of the Blackwater.
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It has long been certain that the show will finish before the books. The remaining question is: will Season 6 air before Book 6 is released?
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I wonder if the IMAX showing they're doing is some sort of practice run for a hiatus year where they run a summer series IMAX thing where they add scenes and better FX in for poo poo like battle of blackwater and whatever other epic poo poo they had to skimp on. Longshot, but they are about to run into desperate times.
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What would be the point of a hiatus? A year is not long enough to finish both Winds and Dream. The show is finishing before the books no matter what. I don't think its a long shot, I think its a no shot. Lycus fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I wonder if the IMAX showing they're doing is some sort of practice run for a hiatus year where they run a summer series IMAX thing where they add scenes and better FX in for poo poo like battle of blackwater and whatever other epic poo poo they had to skimp on. The show writers have the ending. They don't need GRRM.
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Lycus posted:It has long been certain that the show will finish before the books. The remaining question is: will Season 6 air before Book 6 is released? I don't think there's any way TWoW releases in 2016 at this rate, or really ever.
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Ague Proof posted:The show writers have the ending. They don't need GRRM. I can't imagine anyone involved with the money side of the GRRM is idiotic enough to go into a contract with HBO that would let them progress the show beyond the books in any significant way without something happening like him dying. Like...I see some potential for something crazy happening just because the show is generating a lot of money, possibly more than GRRM has the ability to fight...but straight up going on without him sounds like a very heavy lift.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I can't imagine anyone involved with the money side of the GRRM is idiotic enough to go into a contract with HBO that would let them progress the show beyond the books in any significant way without something happening like him dying. Like...I see some potential for something crazy happening just because the show is generating a lot of money, possibly more than GRRM has the ability to fight...but straight up going on without him sounds like a very heavy lift. Can you imagine HBO being willing to make a contract with GRRM that gives such decision-making powers on their multi-million dollar franchise to him? The only way this thing gets made at all is if HBO runs the show completely. They'll go on without him and not give it a second thought.
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