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Intel&Sebastian posted: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. Oh, true. But I mean in the sense that, say, Paul reads more like a jaded 40-something than a noble teen who should be horny and at least somewhat interested in some courtly bangin'. One of the oddest things about dune for me is that despite how much of it revolves around breeding and sexual power dynamics, it feels sterile and sexless.
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Hasselblad posted:I hope when he finally ODs from pizza, TPratchet bitch slaps him. Doesn’t that assume they end up in the same afterlife? Isn’t one circle of Dante’s hell dedicated to sloth?
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Cardiac posted:Doesn’t that assume they end up in the same afterlife? I hope Pratchett is in his Discworld and Gurm ends up there to but perhaps is doomed to live in the River Ankh. (TP is of course Twoflower.)
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I seriously doubt Tolkien would have said the Silmarillion was his life's work. It was background notes to give LotR a coherent backstory. That is, in fact, blantantly what it is. Calling this back but I mean, poo poo. The Silmarillion was never meant to be published. It was a cash-in by Christopher Tolkien cut together with his Dad's notes, and he openly regrets ever publishing it. Oh, hey! As I was reminded today: Neil Gaiman's whole rant about how GRRM isn't our bitch was in 2009. Nine years ago. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 02:10 on May 23, 2018 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:They didn't live up to the high standards set by Dune, a garbage novel. 
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poo poo. MUST. FLOW.
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nine-gear crow posted:poo poo. MUST. FLOW. He is the Quitzon Everrithinch
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What if the book finally gets published and we learn that GRRM was writing profusely all this time after all and the book is like 15000 pages
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Publish with regularity, and you won't attract the GRRM 
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Elias_Maluco posted:What if the book finally gets published and we learn that GRRM was writing profusely all this time after all and the book is like 15000 pages Part of me thinks (wishes) he's going to publish the final books all at once, or at least have them completed, just to be a huge troll gently caress.
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Ottermotive Insanity posted:Part of me thinks (wishes) he's going to publish the final books all at once, or at least have them completed, just to be a huge troll gently caress. Honestly, if he arranged for the final manuscripts to explode out of his rear end in a top hat during the viewing of his corpse I would get a tattoo of his face in reverence.
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Elias_Maluco posted:What if the book finally gets published and we learn that GRRM was writing profusely all this time after all and the book is like 15000 pages He isn’t remotely working on that book. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-rr-martins-ice-dragon-be-adapted-as-animated-film-1114366 Fucker.
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It's either blank or it's like the manuscript in Wonderboys.
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TK-42-1 posted:Honestly, if he arranged for the final manuscripts to explode out of his rear end in a top hat during the viewing of his corpse I would get a tattoo of his face in reverence. Like an Iraqi rear end-book! Spike Jonze should do the big reveal.
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Lycus posted:It's either blank or it's like the manuscript in Wonderboys. Or The Shining
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ZeeBoi posted:He isn’t remotely working on that book. Wasn't there some interview where GRRM was talking about that book and how he'd invented ice dragons?
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Single and LOVING IT posted:Wasn't there some interview where GRRM was talking about that book and how he'd invented ice dragons? I hope not. I was killing Ice dragons in Final Fantasy 2 (ahem, 4) while he was still trying to get Beauty and the Beast back on the air.
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Please tell me he never claimed to invent ice dragons.
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Lycus posted:Please tell me he never claimed to invent ice dragons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCapHgYcIyo Found it. He did. What an absolute fucker.
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Single and LOVING IT posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCapHgYcIyo Lol. Ice Dragons were in the very first Dragonlance trilogy like a billion years ago.
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his story did come out before dragonlance fwiw
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It's not even a dragon....it's a wyvern. Here, I'll let an expert explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZG_-KM6uP4
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:his story did come out before dragonlance fwiw Yeah, but that was just a D&D campaign. White dragons were in the D&D white box in '74.
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Elias_Maluco posted:What if the book finally gets published and we learn that GRRM was writing profusely all this time after all and the book is like 15000 pages You know, apparently his publishers did at one point suggest splitting TWOW into two books, which led me to think that maybe GRRM actually has written a whole lot, enough for two books, but the plot just hasn't progressed sufficiently in those pages to warrant a release. But then I thought about it some more and came to my senses.
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Liquid Communism posted:Calling this back but I mean, poo poo. The Silmarillion was never meant to be published. It was a cash-in by Christopher Tolkien cut together with his Dad's notes, and he openly regrets ever publishing it. Actually Tolkien wanted to publish what was the Sil as part of the lotr publishing process and, no publisher being mad enough to take him up, tried again with the return of the king but ended up stalling at the appendices we have there. CT May regret some of what went into the Sil but it wasn’t a cash grab and his father did give him the authority to publish more in that world in his will so it’s not like he wasn’t entitled to. What he regrets that I know of is creating the fall of Menegroth from whole cloth and changing the way he handled women in the story (they were more prominent in the notes of the time). Sil is good.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:his story did come out before dragonlance fwiw I need to dig out my Monster Manual now Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, but that was just a D&D campaign. White dragons were in the D&D white box in '74. NM, this covers it. Fabulous Knight posted:You know, apparently his publishers did at one point suggest splitting TWOW into two books, which led me to think that maybe GRRM actually has written a whole lot, enough for two books, Isn't that exactly why AFFC was only half a book? Wasn't it released that way because he had reportedly written enough for 2 books? What would lead you to believe that line again? Hasselblad fucked around with this message at 16:08 on May 24, 2018 |
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Fabulous Knight posted:You know, apparently his publishers did at one point suggest splitting TWOW into two books, which led me to think that maybe GRRM actually has written a whole lot, enough for two books, but the plot just hasn't progressed sufficiently in those pages to warrant a release. But then I thought about it some more and came to my senses. I think it's more likely the publishers just went "Give us whatever you got that is even vaguely sensical so we can publish -something-. We'll fix it and have a title out while you 'work' on the 'rest'."
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I'm a newer fan and have only been on this ride for about five years now, I wasn't aware that the same excuse had already been used before. The more you know. I didn't really so much consider it a legitimate possibility so much as just entertain the thought for a brief moment.
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Fabulous Knight posted:I'm a newer fan and have only been on this ride for about five years now, I wasn't aware that the same excuse had already been used before. The more you know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa0dZMHYeE
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lol affc and adwd don't even add up to a single complete book. He supposedly moved the climax into TWOW.
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Fabulous Knight posted:I'm a newer fan and have only been on this ride for about five years now, I wasn't aware that the same excuse had already been used before. The more you know. I didn't really so much consider it a legitimate possibility so much as just entertain the thought for a brief moment. sweet summer chylde....
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Fabulous Knight posted:I'm a newer fan and have only been on this ride for about five years now, I wasn't aware that the same excuse had already been used before. The more you know. I didn't really so much consider it a legitimate possibility so much as just entertain the thought for a brief moment. GRRM is cyclical. The ride never ends.
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nine-gear crow posted:GRRM is cyclical. The ride never ends.
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Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, but that was just a D&D campaign. White dragons were in the D&D white box in '74. The distinction is he claims it is a dragon made of ice, not a white dragon ( eg: Ice based attacks ). Which is even stupider, to be honest.
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frankenfreak posted:I want to get of Mr. Martin's Boring Ride! 
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Hasselblad posted:Sonds?
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