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meanolmrcloud posted:Briennes chapters, the more i think about them, are pretty boring and extremely long but serve a good purpose and, I can't believe it hasn't been brought up, have a brutal payoff. There are lots of points of dread in the book, but when Brienne was getting her face chewed off i just felt plain bad. poo poo was rough. Just about finished with AFFC and thinking back on it, Brienne's are probably one of my most favorite Chapters in AFFC due to the amount of useless detail, background information, etc. that is contained in them. Seriously though, Gregor's head was taken off. Back as a zombie?  e: I'm talking about Brienne in AFFC. She was boring as gently caress in ASoS.
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neongrey posted:Yeah you fuckers laughed at me for buying a phsycial copy to go with the Kindle version, who's laughing next to a perfectly level table now? I am so confused. Did you kick the book under the bed and leave it, kick the bed under the table THEN retrieve it to use as a table prop or just use it to level out your table? 
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Oct 27, 2011 18:32
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Lol poo poo George Martin just had a stroke
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Oct 27, 2011 18:46
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But what if Jon warged into Melisandre?
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Oct 27, 2011 19:27
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Sorry, I have this awful tendency to type out (and post) what I wish would happen.
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Oct 27, 2011 20:09
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Does anybody else still only read this series to see who Jon Snows real parents are?
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Dominion posted:It's Lyanna and Rhaegar, hope this helps. Thanks, time to burn the books now. e: Nvm. Iseeyouseemeseeyou fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Oct 29, 2011 |
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Oct 29, 2011 03:21
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What. The. gently caress.
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Oct 29, 2011 20:28
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IRQ posted:Theon and Davos have the only good chapters in the book. Asha (Greyjoy), Tyrion & Grif/Young Grif (SURPRISE SURPRISE) Chapters were pretty good as well.
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bigmcgaffney posted:Happy New Years, Bad Thread! Did GRRM start writing yet? All sources point to... Hell No! 
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I have this feeling that GRRM will be kicking the bucket this year.
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Jan 1, 2012 09:15
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Apparently a chapter from TWOW. http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html My prediction: -Aegon VI is really a blackfyre descendant of bittersteel.Goes on to conquer the Iron Throne w/ Dorne's help after marrying Arianne. -Varys is really a blackfyre This is all pending that GRRM doesn't have some other illness, such as the common cold, that would inadvertently cause him to miss up to six months of writing.
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I believe you have underestimated how far on GRRM's back burner The Winds of Winter is. He has three things to finish in regards to ASoIaF before he resumes work on the main series: A) Season 2 Game of Thrones B) Another Dunk n Egg / Novella (2012 publish date) C) "The World of Ice and Fire" COMPANION BOOK  He's also working on a lesbian femme fatale book with Gardner Dozois or some poo poo and another wild card for 2012.  e: oh ya; everything he has "written" for The Winds of Winter is just 130ish? pages pushed back from ADWD because it was "too long"
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Joramun posted:I hope it's something like those two companion books for Harry Potter (Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), those were a lot of fun. Perhaps even written in character, like a Westerosi equivalent to Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America. Not sure what those books are about.. but the Companion book is basically a much much more detailed map of A Song of Ice and Fire (All 3/4 Continents) + very thorough family genealogies. I expect it is GRRM's real life version of The White Book or w/e the kingsguard book is. I don't really get why he is doing this now and not wrapping up the other books then releasing it. Seems like it will be very spoiler heavy or maybe he's doing this so he can re-release it after he finishes the series e: holy poo poo these pubbies on westeros.org are terrible. TerriblePubbie101 posted:I don't believe in magic. I do think it's probably possible to postulate a set of orbital conditions such that the climatic conditions described by GRRM could exist, though it may not be a stable configuration. I think magic is just what people call incomprehensible situations when they're too busy (or lazy) to do the math. DifferentPubbieStillAwful posted:drat it, I want to know EVERYTHING about this world!! I'm fascinated about the geographical implications of Martinworld; volcanic eruptions, mini Ice Ages and corresponding falls and rises in sea levels, the shattering of the Arm, why the Milkwater still flows even though it should be locked in perpetual Ice, the Shadow of Asshai, why people can still follow a 'polestar' if the planetary elliptic orbit explains the erratic climate! Iseeyouseemeseeyou fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jan 2, 2012 |
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whowhatwhere posted:If someone could troll the board with GRRM's quote that it's just magic I'd be most appreciative. I would be "most appreciative" too  Quote Thread: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/11904-the-doom-of-valyria-any-chance/
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If only GRRM was more like Brian Jacques (RIP)! This fantasy would be the best thing ever. (Brian Jacques wrote the Redwall books - he would start and finish the entire plot in a single novel and allude to those books in the next book, etc. Not to mention he consistently pumped out 250-400 page books every 8-14 months for 20-30? years, not including his graphic books, etc. that went along with the Redwall series).
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bigmcgaffney posted:Well, I can tell you all of the characters in ASOIAF who sure as hell don't, such as fan favorites Dolorous Edd and Jon Targaryen. I took the liberty of fixing the last word for you, as they take the name of their father not mother yo.
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Jan 3, 2012 08:42
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Calling it right now. Theon and Loras.
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Joramun posted:Doing what? A buddy cop movie? Each other obviously. GRRM needs to gain the affluence of the gay community.
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Ballz posted:That's a bit disingenuous, as you're not including GRRM's patented fakeouts: Bran and Rickon, Arya, Davos, Brienne, and undoubtedly Jon (and probably a bunch more I forgot) all were "killed off" only to be brought back a few chapters later or in the following book. Beric!  Quentyn got eaten by a blazed alive by a loving dragon - no way is he alive.
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bengraven posted:You know, since Theon is technically the heir to the Iron Isles, that makes him a king...at least in Stannis's eyes. Asha is older than Theon I thought? Since Theon is no longer a *man* shouldn't she get dibs? 
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bengraven posted:Basically this. There's still a ton of Unsullied out there to buy. I thought Daenerys purchased all of the Unsullied? Including the ones in training so that no more would be ready for 10+ years?
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lifts cats over head posted:I'm hoping, and this is me trying to be an optimist, that he actually has a lot of stuff written already from Winds of Winter and there won't be a huge wait. Partly because some was cut from DwD and partly because I think if you have the entire story arc already imagined you would have most of the details ready for the beginning and the end and he just needs to fill it in with a bunch of "words are wind", "must needs", and a handful of meals and he's got himself another novel. He only has 100 manuscript pages written, compared to the the typical 1300-1500 that is in a finished book (ADWD was 1500 for example). He has stated that there will be no new POV Characters, aside from Pro/Epilogue, so I think this makes it somewhat hopeful he can have it done inside of 2 years. This is if he puts all of his other "projects" on the backburner (Though the World of ASOIAF does sound quite interesting).
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Joramun posted:I don't really believe he'll stick to that resolution, though. Which is good, because I really want a Hodor POV chapter. I dont want 20 pages of "HODOR HODOR HODOR" 
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I still do not "get" how House Mormont works. It seems to be the polar opposite of the every other house in Westeros, as the kids take the mothers name or something.
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bigmcgaffney posted:Cannot wait for the bread riot scene, it is pivotal from both a narrative and thematic standpoint. I think the directors will play it up given the recent Occupy movement, almost giving it an Occupy King's Landing feel. Can't wait to see the resonance there as the smallfolk show their strength in numbers against those with wealth, such as Lady Lollys and the rest of the court. Though overused in today's lexicon, I feel the term "epic" would succinctly describe this moment in literary and television history. I will only be satisfied if the kingsguard piss in the faces of the rioters.
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Unkempt posted:Pretty sure someone somewhere said it's set before the letter was sent so we don't even know that. gurm said that.
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Trico posted:How did people generally react to the Green Fork in the TV series? Did people feel cheated? I hadn't read the book when I watched the series, so I didn't really have a point of reference I felt cheated by The Green Fork. I felt cheated by the Battle of The Whispering Wood. I felt cheated BY ROBERT BARATHEONS HUNT! They had a giant rear end budget, but no giant rear end boar  .Also, in AGOT Tyrion rides with his clansmen in the vanguard and kills 2-3 Northern guys. In the TV Series, he is just knocked unconscious by his own men.
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I would kill to have the Always Sunny cast as characters.. Charlie Day: Daario Naharis  Kaitlin Olson: Quaithe?  Rob McElhenney: Euron Grey?  Glenn Howerton: Xaro Xhoan Daxos. And ofc Danny DeVito as Strong Belwas..  oh please let it be.
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I'll just leave this charm right here. http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/61652-ranking-the-kingdoms-by-powerinfluence/ ASOIAF Forums posted:Members
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IRQ posted:Obviously ASOIAF takes place on a ringworld that is in a 2 star solar system with a highly elliptical orbit and also a wizard did it. http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/61674-world-flat-or-round/ quote:Well from a few things that i have read on this forum I think that this world could either be flat or round and about twice the size of earth SAME GUY FROM MY LAST POST'S QUOTE!!! posted:The world is round. And it is slightly larger than Earth. This has been confirmed by Martin himself.
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I can see paulie shore as an excellent Ramsay.
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Feb 8, 2012 02:07
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Wasn't supposed to be out until July I thought. Since he broke the volume in two, there is another prologue! And he said he was going to include a new epilogue in the paperback version - new epilogue chapter from TWOW.
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I think we should re-write chapters in an attempt to write TWOW and beat gurm.quote:[c]Tyrion[/c]
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In It For The Tank posted:The Yunkai'i slaver who buys Tyrion. Dude was so fat he couldn't move. Also he had a jungle disease and consorted with a hermaphrodite. He's just got that jungle fever. And I think that we can all agree gurm fantasizes about being any man with sway over Arya  .
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I've been following this since its conception and am so sad I didn't partake. That said, where can I purchase this beautiful monstrosity?
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thornghost posted:Yeah, I'll have to crunch the numbers and I'll let you know. Give me a day or two though since I'm pretty busy at work and outside of it right now. It shouldn't be difficult to calculate how much each author gets from a total of 3 sales.
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syscall girl posted:I can get behind this. Make Ronn transform into a pet 
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elmer fud posted:I have spoiled for 4 people so far who are seriously into ASOIAF, and 20+ for people who just watch it. I was just going to put: "Game of Thrones spoiler: grrm dies" tbh
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