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Just finished re-reading the series. In Dance he uses some variant of "he was not wrong" about once a chapter and it drives me loving insane.
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Jul 31, 2013 18:55
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He also always mentions how the character is not, in fact, a raven whenever he says "as the raven flies."
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Jul 31, 2013 19:08
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In his defense, with all the warging going around it's probably best to clarify pre-emptively.
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Jul 31, 2013 19:09
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It was over five score miles to the Wall, as Raven-Symoné flys. Not that Jon Snow was Raven-Symoné. He was probably Malcolm-Jamal Warner, though.
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Jul 31, 2013 19:12
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He should take a leaf out of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace's book and have characters rephrase this over and over.quote:"What I couldn't work out was how he'd managed to make another man pregnant. I guess we'll never know. So, just to restate, that is something we'll never know, you're not going to find out later."
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Jul 31, 2013 19:46
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ADWD - mummery's everything, really Alright, Game of Bones writers! It's almost August up in here, so a boning proposal, if you will: I don't have permissions on the google doc, but for those of us already on there, how about we have something workable up there by the end of the month? I can crack dat whip. Anyone that isn't on there already and has claimed chapters, I guess you have to talk to thornghost(?) about that! Anyone that doesn't have a claimed chapter in by the end of the month forfeits it and it goes up for grabs for September. End of Sept we try to edit that together, just in time for the holidays. Make it a Wild Bones Christmas! And to not clutter up the thread, we can start a... google hangout, or whatever the poo poo. Or something else.
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Aug 1, 2013 03:33
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equity posted:He also always mentions how the character is not, in fact, a raven whenever he says "as the raven flies." He also constantly refers to items of clothing as 'airy confections'. The other thing I noticed (just finished ADWD for the first time) is that none of the characters can ever eat anything without grease or fat or sauce or something running down their chins. I wouldn't want to watch GRRM eat that's for sure.
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Aug 1, 2013 08:23
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George Lazenby posted:He also constantly refers to items of clothing as 'airy confections'. 
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Aug 1, 2013 08:28
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George Lazenby posted:He also constantly refers to items of clothing as 'airy confections'. I always thought this was to show how gluttonous the upper class were And so the GRRM feasted on buttered lobster with his fork thrusting vigorously like the tongue of an adder. Crab, lobster, those delicious cheesy buns at Red Lobster and all before him met their miserable end in his gullet. Lobsters juices splashed down his chin, intermingling with his whiskers like a river delta overflowing into a forest and covering the ground with greasy slick liquid. Juices splashed onto his lobster bib as well. The heraldry of House Martin, an anthropomorphic lobster holding a knife in each claw upon a field of white, coated in the secretions so thick that it was hard to tell how long GRRM has been feasting. "Now THIS is a Feast for Crows!" GURM said between gluttonous bites of crab leg stewed in butter and cream. No one laughed. The joke was all on them. GRRM simply laughed, the sound of a bike tire having its air let out from a thin puncture in the wheel well.
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Aug 1, 2013 12:04
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Remember when you were excited for Tyrion's chapters?
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Aug 1, 2013 19:35
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Remember when you were excited for Tyrion's chapters? Thanks for the reminder, you absolute fucker.
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Aug 1, 2013 19:44
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Remember when you were excited for A Dance With Dragons?
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Aug 1, 2013 20:38
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Remember when you were excited for Tyrion's chapters?
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Aug 1, 2013 20:41
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Anders posted:Remember when you were excited for A Dance With Dragons? 2007? Not really, nothing much happened back then.
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Aug 1, 2013 21:07
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Anders posted:Remember when you were excited for A Dance With Dragons? November 8, 2005.
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Aug 1, 2013 23:59
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Meanwhile, back at the mall...
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Aug 2, 2013 02:36
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Ugh, I just read the final Brienne chapter and "she screamed a word" has got to be the worst cliffhanger of the lot, if only because it's so specific.el_brio posted:Mild stroke of poo poo-dick. Metabolic conditions can actually have quite an impact on cognition in older adults. So can obesity, for that matter...
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Aug 2, 2013 03:30
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Ugh, I just read the final Brienne chapter and "she screamed a word" has got to be the worst cliffhanger of the lot, if only because it's so specific. Yeah, I didn't get that on first read. I thought the word was "Jaime" and that she was dead or something.
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Aug 2, 2013 03:59
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Remember when you were excited for Tyrion's chapters? If your intention was to make me feel sad, you have succeeded.
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Aug 2, 2013 04:13
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But really, where do the whores go.
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Aug 2, 2013 04:27
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I just finished re-reading Storm of Swords. Having it all fresh isn't going to make Feast any better, is it? These books hit their peak somewhere between "dracaerys" and "Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, poo poo gold" or maybe "Only Cat" and everything after is just a long, painful slide downward only accelerated by GRRM's incredible girth, right?  God, I can't even imagine how dull Dance is when Dany already spends half her final chapter fawning over that blue-bearded douchebag. If that was all some of you guys got for a decade no wonder you're... this.
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Aug 2, 2013 04:38
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HaitianDivorce posted:I just finished re-reading Storm of Swords. Having it all fresh isn't going to make Feast any better, is it? These books hit their peak somewhere between "dracaerys" and "Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, poo poo gold" or maybe "Only Cat" and everything after is just a long, painful slide downward only accelerated by GRRM's incredible girth, right? It will! As will doing a combined re-read. As for Dany...I skip most of her chapters. Her story is just so divorced from Westeros that I can't suffer through it again knowing its outcome at this point. Hers are the only ones I skip.
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Aug 2, 2013 04:42
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Feast is much better on a re-read, even without combining. Dany could have been written out of the books and nothing would suffer for it. 
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Aug 2, 2013 07:08
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Aurain posted:Feast is much better on a re-read, even without combining. Just because it isn't the worst book in the series anymore, it doesn't make it a good book.
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Aug 2, 2013 09:28
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captain platypus posted:Yeah, I didn't get that on first read. I thought the word was "Jaime" and that she was dead or something. Hang on, is the word she shouts not "Jaime"? What other theories are there?
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Aug 2, 2013 10:38
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GRRM has confirmed she said "Sword!". Lady Stoneheart gave her the choice to either kill Jaime or die as a traitor, and then furthered simplified her choice as "the sword or the noose". Brienne initially refused to choose, so she was strung up with her companions. However, she couldn't bring herself to let Pod and Hyle die because of her stubborn devotion to Jaime, so she yelled "sword" and agreed to kill Jaime. That's why the next time you see Brienne in ADWD, she lies to Jaime and leads him away from his men and into a trap.
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Aug 2, 2013 10:43
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Ramsay Snow was in the pub last night. I spoiled him on the bit where he forces Theon to go down on his wife.
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Aug 2, 2013 11:18
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Junkenstein posted:Ramsay Snow was in the pub last night. His reaction?
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Aug 2, 2013 11:26
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Junkenstein posted:Ramsay Snow was in the pub last night. Did you tell him her age`?
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Aug 2, 2013 11:28
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I didn't actually go up to a stranger and talk about these loving books.
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Aug 2, 2013 11:43
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Junkenstein posted:I didn't actually go up to a stranger and talk about these loving books. You were no true wildcard, ser.
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Aug 2, 2013 11:55
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Anders posted:Just because it isn't the worst book in the series anymore, it doesn't make it a good book.
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Aug 2, 2013 12:40
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AFFC is better than both ADWD and ACOK.
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Aug 2, 2013 13:06
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In It For The Tank posted:GRRM has confirmed she said "Sword!". I completely forgot that the cliffhanger was (semi) resolved in Dance. My faulty memory wildcarded me!
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Aug 2, 2013 14:18
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Junkenstein posted:I didn't actually go up to a stranger and talk about these loving books. Uh no you drunkenly yell at strangers about these books, come on
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Aug 2, 2013 15:33
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HaitianDivorce posted:
Still chugging away on my rereread. Still skipping over Kaleeeeeseeee chapters entirely. Currently Stannis is being a oval office to his aging Maester. Leaving out her chapters really drives home the fact that her storyline, beyond the short bit about Robert wanting her to get all stabbied, is completely irrelevant for 5 loving books. Just kill her the gently caress off gurm. The series would be better for that. Holy Calamity! posted:It will! As will doing a combined re-read. As for Dany...I skip most of her chapters. Her story is just so divorced from Westeros that I can't suffer through it again knowing its outcome at this point. Hers are the only ones I skip. Yep. Edit: we should start a grass roots campaign for gurm to kill her off in the very first chapter of WoW. In fact that is all WoW needs to be: just Dany dying. Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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Aug 2, 2013 15:34
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She's going to die by drowning in diarrhoea in vivid detail.
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Aug 2, 2013 16:09
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I've got ADWD by the toilet and have been slowly re-reading it only while on the john, skipping sections/chapters as I see fit; so I won't be reading about Dany making GBS threads while I'm making GBS threads.
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Aug 2, 2013 16:14
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Aurain posted:She's going to die by drowning in diarrhoea in vivid detail. I want (expect) nothing less than tubgirl.
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Apparently there's a book called The Iron King by Maurice Druon that GRRM Plus it's French so if you can read French then you don't have to wait for the next translation.
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