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I just realized Rhaegar Frey named his son Robert. That's pretty funny.
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Not My Goodies posted:Did you really pull that quote for your avatar just now? what is this black highlighted bullshit, dont yall motherfuckers know what thread this is
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I read 20% of Ender's Game before giving up this time. My memory on WMF is fuzzy because I read it right after finishing Name of the Wind and my eyes kind of slid over the boring parts to where I forget the first 1/3 of the book but remember how bad Denna is.
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Knuc If U Buck posted:I know this is the book reader's thread, but seriously? If you are interested in reading about the books, I'm sure there are like 6 gassed versions of this thread that would oblige to inform you about R+L=J and how The mad king raped Tywins wife, which is why he hates Tyrion so much.
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Jun 15, 2013 10:23
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Not My Goodies posted:Did you really pull that quote for your avatar just now? Looks that way, doesn't it? Say what you want about OSC (and I won't say anything as I've never read him), that quote inspired me to flush five bucks down the shitter.
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I keep meaning to read Imajica but it seems a bit daunting. Is there a better Babby's First Clive Barker book? What's Weaveworld like?
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Not My Goodies posted:Did you really pull that quote for your avatar just now? I feel you're dislike for OSC has dramatically (goes well with the avatar) affected your perceptions of the book. The kid was already dead, he didn't know and kicked him in the balls for good measure. And if the descriptions are "uncomfortably naked" to you, I guess don't ever try wrestling, hockey, sports in general. Guys getting naked all the time in locker rooms. Ender doesn't even compare to ASoIaF
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Jun 15, 2013 13:55
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Which Crusader Kings 2 ASOIAF mod is the best?
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Which Crusader Kings 2 ASOIAF mod is the best?
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Is that correct, you can imprison your rivals and feed their manhood to goats? Guess I need the ck expansion
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Jun 15, 2013 16:58
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Not sure about that, just that Ironborn can take prisoners as salt wives and get the "Iron Storm" nickname  But they also added features like a bedding event and the ability to poison someone's wine at a wedding 
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Jun 15, 2013 17:02
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nuncle jimbo posted:Is that correct, you can imprison your rivals and feed their manhood to goats? Guess I need the ck expansion You can castrate (or blind) prisoners if you have the cruel or ruthless trait(s), though you may need the Legacy of Rome expansion to do so.
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Junkenstein posted:I keep meaning to read Imajica but it seems a bit daunting. Is there a better Babby's First Clive Barker book? What's Weaveworld like? The Great and Secret Show is good. Weaveworld is a confusing mess.
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Jun 15, 2013 19:19
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Just watch Candyman and Hellraiser like everyone else
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Junkenstein posted:I keep meaning to read Imajica but it seems a bit daunting. Is there a better Babby's First Clive Barker book? What's Weaveworld like? Abarat is for the "young adult" crowd but it's got some interestingly batshit insane illustrations to go along with it. I think that might be another series that's never going to be finished though. Or watch Hellraiser.
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Junkenstein posted:I keep meaning to read Imajica but it seems a bit daunting. Is there a better Babby's First Clive Barker book? What's Weaveworld like? Clive Barker books span a range from Fantasy to Horror with a lot of books falling somewhere in the middle. If you're looking for things that lie closer to the Fantasy end, it would be Imajica, Weaveworld, Abarat, Great and Secret Show/Everville and The Thief of Always. If you're more into the Horror end, his Books of Blood are easy to start with since they're just collections of short stories. I think Weaveworld is a good start, because after having read them both, it feels like Imajica is what he really wanted to write when he wrote Weaveworld. Great and Secret Show / Everville are awesome, but that's two large books, so it doesn't help on the "daunting" front (and he's supposed to write a third one).
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Xiahou Dun posted:Anubis Gates is what I meant in particular : it is really, really kicking rad. I was a couple minute late for teaching once because I chose to read it in my office over, you know, walking or whatever. I'd add Declare, Last Call, and The Stress of Her Regard as well for really rad stuff. I actually can't think of any outright bad books Powers has written. Like, even his worst stuff (though I haven't read his first two novels) is still on par with average genre fiction.
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Not My Goodies posted:Why would you read Ender's Game at your advanced age [more stuff] I thought that was believable dialog when I read it, but then again I also thought this was: 
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See if Gorm the Old really does end up dying before the last books comes out maybe they should be written collaboratively. Have Neil Gaiman do all of the Bran scenes would be pretty much right on the money and having Terry Pratchett write the Jon and Davos sections would be such a completely tonal shift that it would be hilarious. I am joking around of course, but who would you guys like to see finishing up the writing?
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Junkenstein posted:I keep meaning to read Imajica but it seems a bit daunting. Is there a better Babby's First Clive Barker book? What's Weaveworld like? Yeah, don't start with Imajica. Start with The Books of Blood. I'm pretty indifferent to violence and horror but some of those stories gave me nightmares. Barker's got a really unique authorial voice, I think he's a pretty fascinating writer most of the time but I like his flaws and quirks and idiosyncrasies as much as his considerable strengths. I've never read Weaveworld but it doesn't sound like a good entry point. His early work is a lot more ambitious and less meandering. If you like Stephen King but are irritated by his ridiculously vanilla anxieties try out Clive Barker. If you want to get acquainted with his pet themes watch the first two Hellraisers and Candyman and watch nothing else that was adapted from his work. I Own Soulz posted:I feel you're dislike for OSC has dramatically (goes well with the avatar) affected your perceptions of the book. No it's a pretty terrible book and the 20 or so pages dedicated to prepubescent nudity is loving weird dude sorry. Especially when the writer is a tightly coiled bundle of sexual hangups and emotional immaturity that writes adult romances with less verisimilitude than Dean loving Koontz. It adds an extra layer of creepiness to the whole thing. Josef bugman posted:See if Gorm the Old really does end up dying before the last books comes out maybe they should be written collaboratively. Have Neil Gaiman do all of the Bran scenes would be pretty much right on the money and having Terry Pratchett write the Jon and Davos sections would be such a completely tonal shift that it would be hilarious. I am joking around of course, but who would you guys like to see finishing up the writing? This is a billion dollar idea. Bernard Cornwell gets Victarion of course. Let Neal Stephenson take over at King's Landing. Joe Abercrombie gets the wall. Neil Gaiman is perfect for Bran. Stephen King should do Dany's chapters since he's such an expert at describing intestinal turmoil. I'm pretty sure he's used diarrhea to defeat an ancient evil at least 3 times. e: Bret Easton Ellis for Arya's chapters Sexgun Rasputin fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Jun 16, 2013 |
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Not My Goodies posted:This is a billion dollar idea. Bernard Cornwell gets Victarion of course. Let Neal Stephenson take over at King's Landing. Joe Abercrombie gets the wall. Neil Gaiman is perfect for Bran. Stephen King should do Dany's chapters since he's such an expert at describing intestinal turmoil. I'm pretty sure he's used diarrhea to defeat an ancient evil at least 3 times. If David Foster Wallis was still around I'd vote for him to do Dany's chapters, if only because he could make slipping insanity and huge gently caress off walls of text fascinating. Is there anyone who is really good at writing "cities" as living entities because I could see the whole Merreneen knot being actually interesting if any of the characters were basically trying to keep the place from falling apart using political machinations instead of pissing about with harpies. Also who would you get to write, and also "right", the Dornish? I'd go with resurrecting Frank Herbert and giving it to him. How would you guys have made the Dornish side plot interesting? Other than making everyone Oberyn and have him burn the clegane mansion to the ground.
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Dorne has been mostly stuck in a situation where none of the PoV characters know what the hell is going on. Arys Oakheart, Arriane, and Quentyn combined hardly know anything about Oberyn/Doran/Darkstar's plots and are completely out of the action too long. I feel like Quentyn's chapters could benefit from more interaction with his father, something like a flashback or a raven to shed some light on the extent of Doran's aiding the Targs (Did they know Aegon may live? How close is Doran to Varys/Illyrio?
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Jun 16, 2013 12:35
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Jk rowling for everyone's chapters except dany who is written by the computer program that wrote a chapter in the book by Travis Tea
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Just give China Mieville anything that isn't in Westeros. Would own.
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Not My Goodies posted:No it's a pretty terrible book and the 20 or so pages dedicated to prepubescent nudity is loving weird dude sorry. Especially when the writer is a tightly coiled bundle of sexual hangups and emotional immaturity Edit: If all you remember is the non-descriptions of kids being naked, I think you're the one with bigger issues than OSC. latinotwink1997 fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jun 16, 2013 |
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Junkenstein posted:Just give China Mieville anything that isn't in Westeros. Would own. Listen to this man, he will lead our people into a brave new world and keep the songs and stories of our ancestors. Basically, I want the Hound to fight a slake moth, and I think this is a reasonable demand.
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Cormac McCarthy writes everything. Replace Dany's dragons with Judge Holden and have Suttree go hang out with Tyrion since they're both experts on meandering river adventures.
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Soviet_Russia posted:Dorne has been mostly stuck in a situation where none of the PoV characters know what the hell is going on. Arys Oakheart, Arriane, and Quentyn combined hardly know anything about Oberyn/Doran/Darkstar's plots and are completely out of the action too long. I feel like Quentyn's chapters could benefit from more interaction with his father, something like a flashback or a raven to shed some light on the extent of Doran's aiding the Targs (Did they know Aegon may live? How close is Doran to Varys/Illyrio? They did not know that "Aegon" is alive, as Doran planned to marry Arianne to Viserys, which would have been pointless if they knew Aegon is the next king. The dorne story was hurt most by the split of AFFC and ADWD. If the Quentyn chapters would have been shortly after the final Arianne chapter, there might have been a good story flow. But the way it is now (in the books) you have the Arianne story in AFFC and Quentyn in ADWD which both feel like tangents to the overall storyline.
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GaussianCopula posted:They did not know that "Aegon" is alive, as Doran planned to marry Arianne to Viserys, which would have been pointless if they knew Aegon is the next king. The dorne story was hurt most by the split of AFFC and ADWD. If the Quentyn chapters would have been shortly after the final Arianne chapter, there might have been a good story flow. But the way it is now (in the books) you have the Arianne story in AFFC and Quentyn in ADWD which both feel like tangents to the overall storyline. Lets hope that the TV show puts them together. As an additional one to my previous question, how likely do you think it is that the TV program will outpace the books so completely that they end up having to write an ending.
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GaussianCopula posted:which both feel like tangents to the overall storyline. You know what else felt like tangents from the storyline? Books 4/5. Really hoping that if when never the next book comes out, the fucker starts resolving things that up till now have felt like a expanding universe where everything is moving away from everything else, and new stuff keeps being added which also just keep expanding into the void.
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ExpletiveDeleted posted:Cormac McCarthy writes everything. Everything except quotation marks and other things which generally help make things easy to read.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Everything except quotation marks and other things which generally help make things easy to read. Cormac would have characters quotes written in their native tongues with nary a translation.
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Fog Tripper posted:You know what else felt like tangents from the storyline? Books 4/5. There is a lot of built up in Book 4/5 but there are core storylines that should get resolved very early in Book6. -Siege of Mereen -Stannisgrad (Stannis fight vs Ramsey in the snow) -Cerceis trial -Whatever happens to Jamie with Stoneheart Each of those will have major ramifications for the rest of the story. I hope TWOW will be as good or even better then ASOS.
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Fog Tripper posted:Cormac would have characters quotes written in their native tongues with nary a translation. This would mean the books would contain more than seven foreign words, so... bonus.
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Terry Goodkind for the Jon Snow chapters. The Others would be re-written as communists.
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Sorry no. Terry Goodkind writes the new Ramsay POV.quote:Cut. Once committed to the fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. The lines are a portrayal of the dance. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut with certainty. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into his strength. Flow through the gap in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit.
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run DNC posted:The new Ramsay POV. I thought we'd want Brett Easton Ellis doing this one?
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