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visceril posted:Summer Islands: we'll have a big subplot here that goes nowhere Areo's 17th chapter straight of being a camera man will have an highlight where he goes "Oh yeah, I remember that time I had a tuna and cheese trencher from the pub just round the corner from my brother Steve's flat." and that's about it for the Summer Isles.
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Aurain posted:Areo's 17th chapter straight of being a camera man will have an highlight where he goes "Oh yeah, I remember that time I had a tuna and cheese trencher from the pub just round the corner from my brother Steve's flat." and that's about it for the Summer Isles. In which he will have a flashback of being a cameraman in the Summer Isles and then immediately think "Holy poo poo, even in my memories I am just watching people. I must be boring as gently caress."
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Do these books ever stop with the jumping around to a different person for every single chapter thing? I'm still on the first books near the beginning but holy poo poo is it annoying as gently caress to read a chapter about Arya and then bam it's Eddard's chapter and I don't even know what time period this chapter takes place in because there's no god drat sense of time passing.
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Apr 30, 2015 23:12
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Yeah, just keep reading. It stops fairly soon.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Do these books ever stop with the jumping around to a different person for every single chapter thing? I'm still on the first books near the beginning but holy poo poo is it annoying as gently caress to read a chapter about Arya and then bam it's Eddard's chapter and I don't even know what time period this chapter takes place in because there's no god drat sense of time passing. It stays like this though the breadth of characters expands. It's pretty good because it gives you a sense of the whole world, even if every time (well, half the time) a chapter ends you're like "drat I want to read more about them". Sometimes the chapters are really long though, the stories are divided thoughtfully, it's not like arbitrary stops every 20 pages. PS stay out of this thread if you haven't read all the books and care about spoilers, I dunno if the nice thread is still around.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Do these books ever stop with the jumping around to a different person for every single chapter thing? I'm still on the first books near the beginning but holy poo poo is it annoying as gently caress to read a chapter about Arya and then bam it's Eddard's chapter and I don't even know what time period this chapter takes place in because there's no god drat sense of time passing. Robb Cat killed by Frey at a wedding. Joff poisoned at his wedding Jaime loses sword hand Tyrion kills Shae and Tywin Oberyn loses fight to The Mountain Jon stabbed Dany dysentery Stannis loses his attack on King's Landing Arya goes blind
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RCarr posted:Yeah, just keep reading. It stops fairly soon. forever...
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:It stays like this though the breadth of characters expands. It's pretty good because it gives you a sense of the whole world, even if every time (well, half the time) a chapter ends you're like "drat I want to read more about them". Sometimes the chapters are really long though, the stories are divided thoughtfully, it's not like arbitrary stops every 20 pages. I already watch the series and read the spoilers thread in TVIV so I don't really care
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Boris Galerkin posted:I already watch the series and read the spoilers thread in TVIV so I don't really care k rock on
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Boris Galerkin posted:I already watch the series and read the spoilers thread in TVIV so I don't really care Welcome! Welcome! Can I get you some strong dark ale from the cellars? Or hot black bread fresh from the kitchens to soak up the juices from the whole auroch that has been roasting on a spit in the courtyard since morning because it was too large to fit in the kitchen?
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Boris Galerkin posted:I already watch the series and read the spoilers thread in TVIV so I don't really care gently caress the books in general then, they're not good enough that you should persevere through them if you don't like how they're written, imo.
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May 1, 2015 08:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAO1_yE-dH8 Preston Manning strikes again! I think this is the first time he's mentioned Stannis, too.
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Arglebargle III posted:When does this season start? Seven weeks or so.
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Arglebargle III posted:When does this season start? Seasons don't have a set length 'round these parts, keep up. It's coming though apparently.
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No i've seen the first five books. I meant when does the rest of the season start that GRRM didn't already murder? Does a good series start this season'?
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Arglebargle III posted:No i've seen the first five books. I meant when does the rest of the season start that GRRM didn't already murder? Does a good series start this season'? Next season (6) is where we get to fully uncharted territory of stuff that would theoretically be going in Winds of Winter, and not just really aggressive adaptations of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, which is what this season (5) is all about. We'll probably get some hints and ideas of what would be happening in the books that will never come out in this season, though, but more from reading between the lines of what characters and plotlines get dropped rather than actual direct spoilers and the show lapping GRRM.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Welcome! Welcome! Can I get you some strong dark ale from the cellars? Or hot black bread fresh from the kitchens to soak up the juices from the whole auroch that has been roasting on a spit in the courtyard since morning because it was too large to fit in the kitchen? The bread's supposed to be fresh from the ovens FRESH FROM THE OVENS YOU HAD ONE JOB AND YOU hosed IT UP
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I'd say take my Wild Cards....card, but I last that many many moons ago.
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Anyone got the link to that audio/youtube clip of Roy Dotrice narrating "fat pink mast" set to porn music? Google has failed me and I need it for... reasons.
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Which mash up of book 4 and 5 has the goon seal of approval? Does it even really matter? Also, should I even bother or just read it as intended?
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davey4283 posted:Which mash up of book 4 and 5 has the goon seal of approval? Does it even really matter? The correct answer is you shouldn't bother reading it at all.
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Big Bug Hug posted:Anyone got the link to that audio/youtube clip of Roy Dotrice narrating "fat pink mast" set to porn music? Google has failed me and I need it for... reasons. http://tindeck.com/listen/utrz Bonus: http://tindeck.com/listen/vkxz
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davey4283 posted:Which mash up of book 4 and 5 has the goon seal of approval? Does it even really matter? Read all of 4 and start 5 at the last Bran chapter. Just pretend that the first 34 chapters were part of an intended time skip.
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Genre: Ethnic Oh, that's a nice touch.
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It's funny how I waited years for Dance, bought the stupid hardcover day one and then got bored and quit like a hundred pages in.
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Heh, I hadn't heard that other one. Nice, thanks!
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Tender Bender posted:It's funny how I waited years for Dance, bought the stupid hardcover day one and then got bored and quit like a hundred pages in. You missed out on finding where whores go.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:You missed out on finding where whores go. Everything about this statement is wrong in an almost eerily beautiful way. So many wrong things in so few words. Should have sent a poet, tears in rain, I regret that I have but one five, one small post for a goon
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davey4283 posted:Which mash up of book 4 and 5 has the goon seal of approval? Does it even really matter? I did the Boiled Leather reading order and it was okay because you never went without something from a decent character for too long (depending on which characters you think are decent) but they still aren't very good!!!
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Nah dude, we found out where they go in Feast. That question retroactively became a Brienne quest.
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My fat pink mast is ready to see what they hosed up now.
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The Berzerker posted:I did the Boiled Leather reading order and it was okay because you never went without something from a decent character for too long (depending on which characters you think are decent) but they still aren't very good!!! Right on. So let me get this straight.. you guys would lead me to believe that after all the cool stuff that happens in the end of ASOS that the books quickly devolve into a big, pile of poo poo that's not worth the time? Cause right now I'm just getting to a point where everything I'm reading coincides with the show and it's really great.
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davey4283 posted:the books quickly devolve into a big, pile of poo poo that's not worth the time? yes
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davey4283 posted:Right on. So let me get this straight.. you guys would lead me to believe that after all the cool stuff that happens in the end of ASOS that the books quickly devolve into a big, pile of poo poo that's not worth the time? Things have been getting out of synch since at least last season because they're cleaning up grrms big wet lovely mess.
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I will say this about any attempts at "realism" medieval or otherwise on the show, old dudes like that get stronger as they age. It's pretty hosed up but true. Endurance though, that goes in the shitter. How many dudes did he kill? That's hard work.
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