Ah.
Cool.
Still…
What’s on your backlog, Gui?
I’m currently mowing through Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy, and I think it blows Martin out of the water.
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Cant say I’m not compelled, its just that I still have quite a few books to finish reading before I can even think of starting to read the A Song of Ice and Fire series, but I’ll get to it. There’s gonna be a long wait after this season ends, I believe by the time S2 starts airing, I’d already read at the very least one book in the series.
I have a couple of James Patterson books to read. The second Richard Castle, Simong Pegg’s book, Adam Carolla’s book and I need to proofread the novel I wrote earlier this year because I send it to have it printed.
Nice!
What’s your novel aboot?
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Typical thriller/detective story. It’s nothing special or anything actually worth reading but I wanted to prove to myself I could do it.
Damn show keeps getting better and better. I was foolish enough to hear some spoilers and suffice to say that the damn show keeps getting better and better.
Abercrombie as good as Martin? No. No, no, no.
NBA finals are hurting the ratings on this, but the ratings are staying solid anyway.
Show me one instance of Abercrombie dropping the ball, for even single a chapter, the way Martin did during Ass Feces of Culos.
I liked some parts of feast. cersei gets pwned and exposed as a moron. jamie pwns her more. loser fat dude gets laid - hooray for nerds!
I preferred Cersei as a mysterious force, not a lucky imbecile.
Jaime’s coolest parts were in his dreams and with the Blackfish. He was wishy washy with Cersei.
And morbidly obese nerds getting it on with severely inbred lactating titties should bring no man joy. Barring Million.
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I’m lovin’ the show so far. I also got my wife hooked on it. I’m also planning on picking up the books.
Valaris, bring back spoiler tags. This thread needs them.
FFC was boring, but it wasn’t mean to be exciting, it was building for a new major conflict and showing the fallout of the shit that had been happening in books 1 - 3. Major focus was on a certain cunt that no one likes, a bunch of new characters from places we hadn’t seen, and boring characters from previous books.
CLU, you finish first law trilogy? I read it back when it was still coming out in the UK, so I’m not sure about the spoilers.
First law did some new things with fantasy, had some very interesting characters, but so much of it was made pointless by itself. The ending of book 2 pissed me off, and the siege of that one city felt pointless when the only character you cared about could have left at any time with no worries. Abercrombie’s reach exceeded his grasp, but due to inexperience rather than incompetence.
I’m a mod, not an admin.
[spoiler=test]Spoiler tags are back [/spoilers
Problem with feast is that it NEVER should have happened in the first place. It was supposed to be one book, but it was broken up into two: Feast for crows and Dance with dragons, as a result of there being too much material. And unfortunately, Feast ended up with mostly low tier characters that nobody cared about. The editor should have just said: “yo brah, but nobody wants to read a POV about Brienne of Tarth and a bunch of random characters. they’re not interesting enough in their own right. yeah sure a lot of your fans are fat nerds, but a hot steamy sex scene where a fat nerd gets his jollies off while cool, doesn’t warrant an entire POV. we all just wanna see Dany return and rape everyone”
Still, seeing Cersei get pwned (LOL at the part where she asks that one dude to “take care” of Bronn and the hilarious end result) and the Sansa Stark story arc conclusion (Lysa: “IM A CRAZY BITCH” Petyr: “I only ever loved Catelyn” -> crouching fierce -> HYPER COMBO FINISH!!! -> guardbreak on singer -> ROM infinite) made the book worth it. the cheesy Brienne cliffhanger ending with the “one word” (WHAT COULD THE WORD BE?) was lame though.
Littlefinger giving Lysa the middle finger was at the end of Storm - the good book.
Further [spoiler=] Feast/Dance was meant to be told in retrospective, originally, during the original Dance manuscript. Martin allegedly found he couldn’t make it work in the dialogue. More than likely, however, his publishers got a dose of Jordanitis, and told him to rewrite it and stretch it out, and thus he spent over 5 years "working on it/novellas, card games, comic books, figurines, the HBO series.[/spoiler]
wait it was? oh damn, never mind. god there were so many good scenes in storm of swords.
other favorites include (totally spoiler free)
Dornish dude: YOU RAPED MY SISTER! SAY IT!
Sandor: Yeah I raped her TROLOLOL! SHINYUUUUUUUUKEN!
Shae: MMMMMM you so big
Tyrion: FUCK YOU WHORE!!! SHORYUREPPA!!!
… a few seconds later …
Tywin: You STILL tripping about that wife of yours that I turned into a whore?
Tyrion: FUCK YOU DADDY!!! PROTON CANNON!!!
Lol.
Fixed that for ya, fish.
hey how’d you do that? also, man my stuff was kept intentionally vague. PROTON CANNON could mean anything.