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Ague Proof posted:Hasn't he said that he told his wife to burn his manuscripts and notes if he dies before finishing the books? He didn't seem like he was joking. so we have to kill his wife, then him
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I can understand someone not wanting their name on something not up to their standards, posthumous publishing of notes often turns out poorly. Personally I wouldn't care because I'd be dead though.
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Jan 2, 2015 18:42
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I can believe that claim because he's pretty full of himself given the whole "American Tolkien"( ) label he's gotten from other people all because he wrote a series that's heavily based on an existing source.
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Ague Proof posted:Kafka, Virgil, Nabokov and surely countless other FTFY
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Evil Fluffy posted:I can believe that claim because he's pretty full of himself given the whole "American Tolkien"( Robin Hobb?
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Evil Fluffy posted:I can believe that claim because he's pretty full of himself given the whole "American Tolkien"( Yeah but the real Tolkien let his kid dedicate his life to releasing his notes.
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Jan 3, 2015 09:07
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Coming soon - Middle Earth: Milk, Sugar, Pipe Tobacco, Mycil.
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rejutka posted:Coming soon - Middle Earth: Milk, Sugar, Pipe Tobacco, Mycil. The Wit and Wisdom of Bombur.
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Ague Proof posted:The Wit and Wisdom of Bombur. "Eat more cheese." The End
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AtAt-de-fay posted:Robin Hobb? I still haven't gotten around to reading her stuff, so IDK.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:It is late in the night, and the sussurrus of battle wafts in through the open windows of GRRM's besieged Santa Fe estate. The clock strikes twelve. The pueblo trembles beneath Ty's feet. Deep in the basement, a computer, holding every illegal download of the Fatman bursts, and burns.. Mr. Martin's priceless collection of nude porcelain dolls shatters, musically.. Empty Pizza boxes fly apart like broken deadlines The central room of GRRM Manor shudders as if alive Then the oily pizza boxes catch fire in a FLASH bright as the sun The world turns ruby red. The scrawlings on the Boxes.. All that is left of his writings, rise madly into the sky, riding a pillar of flame. A jolt travels the length of Ty's spine. Of course, he thinks, as his head goes light. What an absolute fucker. 
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speaking of burning notes. this hasn't been posted in a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6QyXl6d2M
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kcroy posted:speaking of burning notes. this hasn't been posted in a while p good
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Evil Fluffy posted:I still haven't gotten around to reading her stuff, so IDK. A good few elements from Hobb's Assassin series are present in ASOIAF. She has a Varys, the ironborn, stone dragons, etc. Even the fate of one mopey dope Stark was presaged by Hobb. Bad authors plagiarize, The American Tollking rips off his buddies.
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AtAt-de-fay posted:A good few elements from Hobb's Assassin series are present in ASOIAF. She has a Varys, the ironborn, stone dragons, etc. Even the fate of one mopey dope Stark was presaged by Hobb. Talent Borrows Genius Steals Twincest Wins
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Jan 4, 2015 22:19
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I retract my earlier theory that the series is finished and he is milking it for all its worth. GRRM was told by a wandering gypsy that his life would end as soon as he ended the series. In the meantime, he can eat whatever he wants, be a Comicon creeper, go on talk shows, watch football, run a movie theater, and masturbate to all of his frustrated fans' constant online bitching. Its good to be the GRRM. Its also hilarious that he pronounces GRRM "grim" rather than the more appropriate GURM.
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Gimmedaroot posted:I retract my earlier theory that the series is finished and he is milking it for all its worth. Jokes on him, prophecy is never what it seems. HBO series finale ends and GRRM dies at the watch party he will be hosting in his movie theater.
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Jan 5, 2015 21:33
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I think it's far too much of a stretch to make any comparison between Hobb's Elderling novels and ASOIAF beyond "They are both fantasy books".
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mossyfisk posted:I think it's far too much of a stretch to make any comparison between Hobb's Elderling novels and ASOIAF beyond "They are both fantasy books". Lemme limber up. (Farseer spoilers ahead) There's Chade, the mysterious man in service to the king. Spy. Assassin. Sneaky-secret-passage-lurker who gleans secrets from his hidey holes. Master of disguise! Fitz. He wargs. Warging is bad in this realm. He's a protagonist. And he gets killed. But escapes being killed dead by warging. And there's a group of viking archetypes ravaging the realm called the Red Raiders. Dragons born from stone at great cost. There's probably more. Been a long time since I've read either series. But I repeat myself.
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There is also the thing where fitz is the bastard of a high noble and his only public lapse of honor. And also the prophetic fool.
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I'm pretty sure having a spymaster, bad magic, and pirates is all fair game in the fantasy genre. And "carving dragons out of stone and using magic to put people's souls into it" it pretty far away from "dragon eggs are made of rock".
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if I was a smart fantasy writer I would quickly pump out a novel with some plot points in it that everyone expects asoiaf to hit eventually in the upcoming novels in order to say I did it first or just to gently caress with grrm and make him have to change his story.
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mossyfisk posted:I'm pretty sure having a spymaster, bad magic, and pirates is all fair game in the fantasy genre. You forgot warging, royal bastards and prophetic fools. quote:And "carving dragons out of stone and using magic to put people's souls into it" it pretty far away from "dragon eggs are made of rock". Too right. I wasn't talking about the eggs. I was talking about Dragon Stone. Where dragons are carved out of stone and according to whatever they wake up. Do you still think it's too much of a stretch to make comparisons?
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TommyGun85 posted:if I was a smart fantasy writer I would quickly pump out a novel with some plot points in it that everyone expects asoiaf to hit eventually in the upcoming novels in order to say I did it first or just to gently caress with grrm and make him have to change his story. Good news! He is so lazy that a few forums/blog posts about r+l=j are enough to put him off his game like a mother bird ignoring her spawn after it's touched by a human hand.
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Gimmedaroot posted:I retract my earlier theory that the series is finished and he is milking it for all its worth. Don't worry, everyone has gone through it. It is one of the stages of grief. edit: If you want to keep track, you are in STAGE 1: DENIAL AND ISOLATION: quote:1. Denial and Isolation syscall girl posted:Good news! He is so lazy that a few forums/blog posts about r+l=j are enough to put him off his game like a mother bird ignoring her spawn after it's touched by a human hand. godddamn that is a great simile. kcroy fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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AtAt-de-fay posted:You forgot warging, royal bastards and prophetic fools. I see all of this stuff as like, the basic ingredients of scifi/fantasy crap. Sort of like the basic building blocks of the genre. Stone statues coming to life, prophetic fools, warging, ancient magicians, hidden knowledge, orcish bad guys, elves and sprites in the deep forest, secret heritage, fantasy world that is actually the distant future of earth... I mean basically anything that shows up in a D&D Manual / adventure / Greyhawk novel... to me that is all fair game. Lots of GRRMs plot is cliche as poo poo - but I feel he has given us enough originality in how he has presented it ( gritty/rapey/twists! ) that it used to feel like it was adding something to the genre, rather than just being derivative poo poo. Just my 2 cents though.
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Evil Fluffy posted:I still haven't gotten around to reading her stuff, so IDK. Its the poo poo. And hits on the hopelessness and cruelty of an medieval society while adding a ton of humanity and sympathy for its characters. Farseer trilogy for life son!
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I don't think Martin rips off anything from Hobbs, but they are definitely working on very similar ground and their writing shares a lot of genre tropes.
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Even if he did, who cares? Hobb isn't well known outside of the genre and Martin is perhaps the most popular writer on the planet right now. He did it better.
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Unzip and Attack posted:Even if he did, who cares? Hobb isn't well known outside of the genre and Martin is perhaps the most popular writer on the planet right now. He did it better. George R R Martin, the
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Unzip and Attack posted:Even if he did, who cares? Hobb isn't well known outside of the genre and Martin is perhaps the most popular writer on the planet right now. He did it better. Hobb finished his stories. And I liked them too, instead of this hate reading thing I've got going on with Game of Thrones the novelization.
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Shageletic posted:Hobb finished his stories. And I liked them too, instead of this hate reading thing I've got going on with Game of Thrones the novelization. Hobb is a she.  And yeah having closure to stories is pretty awesome too.
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Well, the rest of you are probably right. But I've nurtured this crackpot theory for a while so I'm gonna stick with it a bit longer.
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The Rat posted:And yeah having closure to stories is pretty awesome too. Only if you like whiny protagonists.
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Hobb is nowhere near done, she just put out book 14, and book 15 is planned for this August.
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Apparently Kit Harrington had a clause in his contract with HBO that he had to keep his hair long and lovely looking as long as he was playing Jon Snow, but he recently got a haircut and so people are freaking out.
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Looks like he could grow it back out by the time they start shooting again. Guy should get a break from that do, too.
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GRRM bought a bowling alley.
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Ague Proof posted:GRRM bought a bowling alley. Isn't bowling a little physically intense for GRRM?
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Ague Proof posted:GRRM bought a bowling alley. the fatman posted:The building, instead, will be used for art... not a traditional gallery, now, but a very exciting and innovative interactive art space. The exhibits will be designed and installed by Meow Wolf, a collective of forty-odd (some very odd) artists here in Santa Fe who have been doing some amazing things over the past decade, but have never had a permanent home before. I went to the website he talks about, and I swear I thought this artpiece was called Clitteropolis.  edit: gently caress that website and their lovely pop up "subscribe" page. edit2: I'd really much rather go to Clitteropolis - than see a bunch of poo poo covered in glitter. unless it were a clitter. you know. edit3: Thanks internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4O68kUj5c Clitter. Turn your Labia into a YEAH-bia! kcroy fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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