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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:There are no more books after God-Emperor.
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Am I imagining it, or did someone create a fan art with grrm as baron harkonnen?
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May 19, 2018 00:15
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At this point I'd be extremely surprised if TWOW comes out before GRRMs death. It'll probably only be released posthumously if he dies while the show hype is still relatively fresh. If he lives to 90 it will never be released.
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May 19, 2018 08:43
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Nah, they'll find someone to keep releasing books "based on GRRM's notes" for as long as they can. today's market won't let go of any gravy train until it run out of rail, let alone one this big.
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May 19, 2018 14:10
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I think they will release whatever they got after GRRM is dead, but noone will care but a bunch of old loyal nerds
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May 19, 2018 14:19
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*leal
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May 19, 2018 15:25
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they'll release a half-done manuscript that comes with this classic 
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May 19, 2018 15:59
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I'm still super impressed with that certificate even after all these years.
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May 19, 2018 19:54
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:There are no more books after God-Emperor. and there were never any Star Wars prequel films either
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May 19, 2018 20:05
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Sephyr posted:Nah, they'll find someone to keep releasing books "based on GRRM's notes" for as long as they can. today's market won't let go of any gravy train until it run out of rail, let alone one this big. So books based entirely on which TGIFridays has the best queso dip and why the Jets are dogshit?
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May 19, 2018 23:31
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Solice Kirsk posted:I'm still super impressed with that certificate even after all these years. The artisanal quality is beyond measure.
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May 19, 2018 23:40
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Trabandiumium posted:they'll release a half-done manuscript that comes with this classic this was the loving golden age of bad thread it was sublime
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May 20, 2018 13:41
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What do the wavy lines around Rape say? I can barely make out what looks like “Martin” and “Ice” in some places, so I was thinking his name and the series.
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May 20, 2018 16:43
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latinotwink1997 posted:What do the wavy lines around Rape say? I can barely make out what looks like “Martin” and “Ice” in some places, so I was thinking his name and the series. Lemoncakes I think. Who actually made that cert? It definitely took more time and effort than GRRM has exerted in the last decade anyway.
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May 20, 2018 18:12
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i like to think it was spontaneously created by the internet's collective angst
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May 20, 2018 21:34
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banned from Starbucks posted:So books based entirely on which TGIFridays has the best queso dip and why the Jets are dogshit? Easy peasy. "Some corners of the realm, Dany learned, still celebrated TarGarYen Fridays, during which they gathered and shared bread warm from the ovens, dipped in cheese." "I've looked at the new soldiers House Jhett has brouvght to our cause. Many and more of them are as useless as nipples on a breastplate."
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May 20, 2018 22:50
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Solice Kirsk posted:I'm still super impressed with that certificate even after all these years. I feel like whoever did that had access to some legit stock and bond printing software or something.
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May 21, 2018 01:51
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So principal shooting for Season 8 is apparently done. Have there been any leaks that support the earlier details such as Dany's corpse having poo poo flung at her?
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May 21, 2018 02:18
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And the more she ate, the more she shat.
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May 21, 2018 02:28
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So principal shooting for Season 8 is apparently done. Have there been any leaks that support the earlier details such as Dany's corpse having poo poo flung at her? Not to my knowledge. In fact the one big leak so far (basically everyone sans Jaime returning to Kings Landing/the Dragon Pit for another huge scene there) actively contradicts pretty much every bullshit bullet point in that hilarious spoiler list.
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May 21, 2018 05:43
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I'm gonna be so pissed if no spoilers leak and I can't get probated one last time for this series.
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May 21, 2018 06:00
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Sephyr posted:Easy peasy. Hmm id read it
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May 21, 2018 11:39
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I'm still toxxed for those spoilers so please treat them with more respect.
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May 21, 2018 11:55
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what is so bad about Heretics and Chapterhouse? Ive never read them.
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May 21, 2018 23:11
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TommyGun85 posted:what is so bad about Heretics and Chapterhouse? Ive never read them. Sex ninja space nuns
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May 22, 2018 00:10
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TommyGun85 posted:what is so bad about Heretics and Chapterhouse? Ive never read them. They didn't live up to the high standards set by Dune, a garbage novel.
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May 22, 2018 00:35
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jit bull transpile posted:Sex ninja space nuns MIND-CONTROLLING, sperm-jacking sex ninja space nuns, my friend.
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May 22, 2018 01:14
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um that sounds like a plus and not a bad thing
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May 22, 2018 01:19
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Sephyr posted:MIND-CONTROLLING, sperm-jacking sex ninja space nuns, my friend. No, no, that's the Bene Gesserit. These introduced the evil mind-controlling, sperm-jacking sex ninja space nuns with insectoid kung-fu.
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May 22, 2018 02:38
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Sephyr posted:MIND-CONTROLLING, sperm-jacking sex ninja space nuns, my friend. Rothfuss stole that too?
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May 22, 2018 02:59
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This is a pretty obvious pattern. Instead of appealing to flaws in the prose, people are arguing that the sci-fi/fantasy concepts in the books are stupid. It's inherently a distraction from that the books are no worse than the "good ones".
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May 22, 2018 15:53
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I'm not sure what kind of gotcha you thinl youve trapped us in. This is the support group for people who can't let go of a series of books written by a man who thought the phrase "as useless as nipples on a breastplate" was indescribably clever. Frank Herbert is, if anything, a massive improvement.
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May 22, 2018 16:17
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Words are wind, all books are bad
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jit bull transpile posted:Sex ninja space nuns and this is worse than an immortal psychic suicidal man-worm that can't swim?
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May 22, 2018 16:37
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My favourite Dune novel was Panzer Dragoon.
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I stopped after a single Dune sequel and felt bad for reading it. Dune is a pound for pound champion. There might be longer books, there might be better books, but there's no books that are that concise while being that good.
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bloom posted:He's rich and old and dgaf anymore. Can't blame him. I hope when he finally ODs from pizza, TPratchet bitch slaps him. Blade_of_tyshalle posted:There are no more books after God-Emperor. That Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 17:59 on May 22, 2018 |
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May 22, 2018 17:54
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I like Dune a lot, but I can see its warts. Herbert's prose rarely shines, and his characters score lowly on the "feeling like actual people" scale. Those are usually made better by the fact that his universe is a weird but interesting place you want to see more of, and that it's so far in the future that things posthuman concepts can explain why characters feel odd. Plans that encompass generations? Human computers? Combining feudal galactic hierarchies with a supercapitalist shared monopoly in which? More please! I actually liked the second book a lot, mostly because it blew 13-year-old me's mind that the hero of the last story would now be trapped in a bureaucratic, poltical nightmare in which he's mostly trying to keep the ongoing murdercide from getting worse while not cracking completely. Even in the first book the Atreides are hardly classic heroes, dealing in bribes and lies and propaganda (hell, early on Duke Leto casually bemoans that they can't use poison to conveniently off large swathes of their population in Arrakis, and he's complaining that it's not feasible, not that it would be a bad thing.) Worlbbuilding is a tricky, fickle thing. some universes (Star Wars/Trek, Dune, ASoIaF) have a knack for making you want to see more even when you dislike one or two entries, while other (Matrix, Second Apocalypse) only grow more stale and silly the more you see of them.
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Sephyr posted:his characters score lowly on the "feeling like actual people" scale. Normal "royalty" on Earth don't even feel like real people. I think it's definitely a product of what you mentioned with them dealing in so many alien concepts, I think it'd be more jarring if they were putting out realist dialogue.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:I stopped after a single Dune sequel and felt bad for reading it. Dune is a pound for pound champion. There might be longer books, there might be better books, but there's no books that are that concise while being that good. A Wizard of Earthsea  LeGuin gives you an entire developed world, magic and political system, enjoyable cast of characters, complete narrative arc, and strong life lesson all in 200 pages. Half the length of Dune.
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