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Flattest Fish posted:So, how does the bad thread feel about older GRRM stories such as "Fevre Dream", etc.- The incest story that's clearly about him loving his sisters is American Tolkien as balls.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:The incest story that's clearly about him loving his sisters is American Tolkien as balls. quote:He woke suddenly, in darkness, to the light touch of skin against his foot. quote:Cissy reached through the folds of his robe, shoved her hand inside his briefs, squeezed him gently. "Liar," she said. "You want me. You've always wanted me. I'll bet you used to stop and jack off when you were writing the sex scenes."
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Jun 26, 2013 02:50
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GRRM has written some pretty good horror but also
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Urdnot Fire posted:For sure. I recommend Portraits of His Children to all my show-watcher friends:  It's been nice, but it hasn't been that nice.
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Jun 26, 2013 03:15
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Flattest Fish posted:So, how does the bad thread feel about older GRRM stories such as "Fevre Dream", etc.- I've said this before but what made me pick up AGOT way back when it first came out was that I loved GRRM's sci-fi anthology Sandkings in highschool (it's out of print now, but I believe all of those stories can be found in other anthologies). I read some of those stories several times - particularly In the House of the Worm - so when I saw that he had written a fantasy novel, I bought it immediately because I was an even bigger fantasy nerd than a sci-fi nerd at the time. I haven't read any of those stories in probably 15 years though, so I have no idea if they would stand up today or if they only seemed so good back then because I was a dumb kid. Probably the latter. Edit: oddly, I've never read Fevre Dream or any of his other novels though.
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Jun 26, 2013 03:26
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Sammy, you are about to get told by Azure_Horizon about just how loving amazing Sandkings is. He sleeps with a copy under his pillow. When he makes love, he doesn't look at or even think about his partner, no, his lust is consumed with thoughts of Sandkings. Sandkings. King of Sands. King... of Literature.
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Jun 26, 2013 03:34
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Wouldn't that chafe and scratch and poo poo?
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Jun 26, 2013 03:36
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The Meat Puppet Man or whatever is pretty terrifying, especially that scene where he has sex with a puppet corpse
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Urdnot Fire posted:For sure. I recommend Portraits of His Children to all my show-watcher friends: 
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Urdnot Fire posted:For sure. I recommend Portraits of His Children to all my show-watcher friends: 
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Jun 26, 2013 03:59
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Sammy, you are about to get told by Azure_Horizon about just how loving amazing Sandkings is. He sleeps with a copy under his pillow. When he makes love, he doesn't look at or even think about his partner, no, his lust is consumed with thoughts of Sandkings. Well, if the Irish Joe of The Bad Thread loves it that much, I guess that answers my question as to whether or not it's actually as good as it seemed to me as a teenager. Apparently Sandkings is a bloated and boring disappointment.
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Jun 26, 2013 04:12
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I just realized that the show will somehow have to reconcile Jaime & Brienne arriving at King's Landing before Joff's wedding. I'm not looking forward to seeing Jaime cradling his freshly-choked son and sobbing while Tyrion gets dragged away by guards.
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Jun 26, 2013 04:46
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Devorum posted:I just thought King's Landing as Baltimore was believable in the short fanfic. There's a few more floating around way back in the thread here if you peep my history. I'd post them in The Wire thread, but it's a no-place consisting of both TVIV but also people that have taste, so..?
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mythicknight posted:I just realized that the show will somehow have to reconcile Jaime & Brienne arriving at King's Landing before Joff's wedding. Doesn't he not really give a poo poo though? I thought (from the half of Feast I could force myself through) that he didn't really like Joffrey and totally recognized he was a little poo poo. Part of his "I've been a terrible person with my incest n' stuff arc" (as opposed to Brienne's "I'm going to do nothing interesting that the reader knows isn't going to lead to anything good arc" my god how did an editor let that poo poo slip through)
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Jun 26, 2013 05:49
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In It For The Tank posted:GRRM has written some pretty good horror but also This is outstanding. How about this gem from AFFC?: "...was there ever a woman with nipples so large or so responsive?" In real life you have to choose but I guess that's what makes this fantasy.
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Jun 26, 2013 05:55
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Urdnot Fire posted:For sure. I recommend Portraits of His Children to all my show-watcher friends: 
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Jun 26, 2013 06:41
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Fun on facebook with my friend I repost all the terrible poo poo from this thread to:
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Jun 26, 2013 06:47
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SammyWhereAreYou posted:Well, if the Irish Joe of The Bad Thread loves it that much, I guess that answers my question as to whether or not it's actually as good as it seemed to me as a teenager. Apparently Sandkings is a bloated and boring disappointment. Nah, Sandkings is legit good. Fevre Dream is a good story too, I'm usually not into vampire books but GRRM's take on them was interesting.
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Jun 26, 2013 06:48
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Necroscope is the best vampire novel. Sorry, folks, it's true. When other fiction catches up to vampires being alien amoeba from another dimension, then we can talk like equals.
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Jun 26, 2013 14:31
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Urdnot Fire posted:For sure. I recommend Portraits of His Children to all my show-watcher friends: Let's see... Incest? Check Description of nipples? Check Shameful boner? Probably. Check. Pedophilia? Nope. 3/4 on a GURM scale.
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Jun 26, 2013 17:42
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Hunky Joe posted:Let's see... No lengthy descriptions of food.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:02
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As someone who's been trying to read the first book for six months, I don't understand how you guys got through five.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:20
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Really easily mostly. I actually find it quite the page turner, especially since almost everything I read is nonfiction, and some of it very academic.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:22
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Li Dawny posted:As someone who's been trying to read the first book for six months, I don't understand how you guys got through five. With an entire litre of hand creme.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:25
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Li Dawny posted:As someone who's been trying to read the first book for six months, I don't understand how you guys got through five.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:34
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Urdnot Fire posted:Roy Dotrice is your friend. This man speaks truth. I found it unreadable in print, but easy to get through spoken.
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Jun 26, 2013 21:36
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Urdnot Fire posted:Roy Dotrice is your friend. Cannot agree with this more. Mr Dotrice was a great companion for my long commutes (except for those times he started talking like a sailor and describing the pornos he watched over the weekend  )
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Jun 26, 2013 21:47
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You guys are pansies. I started off my ASoIaF experience by seeing cool  gifs from the first season and deciding to watch S01E10 first because ~free HBO weekend~ and then moved on to reading the dead tree books because I needed to see how Joffrey dies.The perspective chapter format is ridiculously addictive too. You'll read one you don't like and then tell yourself 'I'm putting the book down after this' and then end up sneaking a peek at the next chapter and holy poo poo it's someone I care about (Tyrion) and end up going on like this for hours. Then there was ADWD. That's when the drinking games become necessary and everything slows down.
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Jun 26, 2013 22:12
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Hey jerks, I want to buy a first edition book to have GRRM sign: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3556341&pagenumber=1#lastpost
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Jun 26, 2013 22:24
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Why would I listen to a book? :rhetoricalquestion:
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Jun 26, 2013 22:46
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syscall girl posted:
This should be the new thread title.
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Flattest Fish posted:So, how does the bad thread feel about older GRRM stories such as "Fevre Dream", etc.- Sandkings is his best work, Fevre Dream is an above-average vampire tale, and Tuf Voyaging has quite a few fascinating short stories on the dangers of loving with the environment and ecology of a planet.
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Jun 26, 2013 23:44
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See?! You got TOLD! 
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Li Dawny posted:As someone who's been trying to read the first book for six months, I don't understand how you guys got through five. We've had 16 years. It can be done.
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pentyne posted:We've had 16 years. It can be done. One week from now, this thread will reach its second birthday, coming to at least 679 pages (surpassing the record of all other bad threads) of primarily book-based discussion and comparative analysis with the television show, along with sides of GRRM loathing. I only mention this because we will have to wait a while for Winter to come out, so we might as well celebrate every minor event we can.
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We'll reach the page count of one of the shorter books in the series, maybe of one of the big ones even. Bad Thread is written, one post at a time, faster than a Gurm book, and that's without the padding of endless food description.
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Dead Man Posting posted:One week from now, this thread will reach its second birthday, coming to at least 679 pages (surpassing the record of all other bad threads) of primarily book-based discussion and comparative analysis with the television show, along with sides of GRRM loathing. *Clears throat* ... tum ta da tum ... I farted.
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Hunky Joe posted:Let's see... making GBS threads?
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HaitianDivorce posted:Doesn't he not really give a poo poo though? I thought (from the half of Feast I could force myself through) that he didn't really like Joffrey and totally recognized he was a little poo poo. Part of his "I've been a terrible person with my incest n' stuff arc" (as opposed to Brienne's "I'm going to do nothing interesting that the reader knows isn't going to lead to anything good arc" my god how did an editor let that poo poo slip through) Briennes chapters are an excuse for him to show side stuff about other, more interesting people. Here's Sams rear end in a top hat dad! Here's Gendry! Here's Lady Stoneheart! Here's a Septon who speaks in bullshit and metaphor but also lets you know that the Hound is alive and that Aegon is a Blackfyre! We done? Okay, hang her so she can sell out Jaimie in six years.
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Potooweet posted:Briennes chapters are an excuse for him to show side stuff about other, more interesting people. Here's Sams rear end in a top hat dad! Here's Gendry! Here's Lady Stoneheart! Here's a Septon who speaks in bullshit and metaphor but also lets you know that the Hound is alive and that Aegon is a Blackfyre! We done? Okay, hang her so she can sell out Jaimie in six years. Wait what? I just scanned over the section in my copy and I didn't see anything hinting toward that. And even if he is a Blackfyre I still think I'd like him more than Dany because he ends ADwD actually loving accomplishing something rather than making GBS threads himself back where he started.
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