How I feel about George R.R. Martin
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quickmeme.comPosted May 17, 2012, 7:58 AM UTC
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quickmeme.comGRRM doesn't kill characters; his characters kill characters.
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Awesome, if you really think about it.
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Of "A Song of Ice and Fire", Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade had this to say of the show after reading the first book,
"I picked up the second book immediately, as in perhaps ten seconds after closing the first. It’s how I intended to live, leaping to the next book in the series at regular intervals and clutching it to survive. Couldn’t do it.
This is why I’m excited for the show: now I can know what my friends are talking about, without having to read the books. I can watch Sean Bean being rad, again. The profound expense of converting these novels to video will act as a natural sieve, seizing the largest chunks of the excess. They can just show me a tender shank right there on the screen, or a table with a bunch of food on it. I don’t have to hear how a woman has beef juice running down her arm and onions in her hair or whatever other calcified smut that rancid old coot has clanking around in his braincase."
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He doesn't kill THAT many characters.
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If you want to read predictable books where the good guys always win, 99% of them are like that, go ahead and read them.
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Hey man, spoilers.
I know that most people here have read/watched the first season or book, but still.
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Why are they even in this sub reddit? They should be reading the book while simultaneously watching the show.
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have you read Stephen King?
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In his own words: "I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood --1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don't remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children--we think we do, but we don't remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues."
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Aldous Huxley. He really was a weirdo, though.
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What the fuck? Man, I almost want to read it to understand the context but it scares the ever living hell out of me. I watched the movie as a child and still have nightmares.
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It's a great book. I've only seen parts of the movie but I understand it mostly focused on IT, when the book is a great tale about childhood. That part was increadibly freaky, yes, but it's still a very good read.
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Ah, so the clown isn't the only aspect of the book? Interesting if still incredibly scary.
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Can't he be both?
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Yes.
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Try reading some of his short stories. Meathouse Man, The Pear-Shaped Man, and Portraits of His Children are particularly disturbing.
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Sandkings is very disturbing too. And my favourite story in Dreamsongs, even honours with A song for Lya
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Saw the Sandkings movie when I was way younger, flipped out when I learned it was written by George.
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is it any good in comparison to the short story?
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haven't read the novella but i plan to once I'm through asoiaf (on affc now). regarding the tv version (a 2-part Outer Limits episode) it's probably been like 15 years since I last saw it, but i remember it freaked me out to the point where it has stuck with me to this day, and I instantly recognized the name when I heard it.
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why not both?
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He makes you like them...
then he HURTS them :_(
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I've been saying that it's a good thing this guy write Game of Thrones because otherwise he'd be burying people in his backyard. He looks like a cross between Santa Clause and a serial killer.
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Welcome to the club!
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isn't there a subreddit for this sort of thing?
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for posts about GoT? yup, you found it.
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hey lookie here http://www.reddit.com/r/asongofmemesandrage
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hmm, post to a base of 1,000, or 60,000...tough choice...
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well, when asomar was created, agot and asoiaf had both agreed that ragecomics and memes were supposed to be posted there, but I guess they've eased up on that rule.
but by all means, karma whore away!
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GRRM's kill rate is vastly overrated. With all the fake deaths, undead or any other kind of misinformation, he actually didn't kill that many people.
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Por que no los dos?
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they are not mutually exclusive.
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With an obsession with describing every delicious detail of food.
And incest.
I don't remember, does anyone wear cloth of gold in asoiaf? Or perhaps a lobstered gauntlet?
Mmm..... lobstered gauntlets.
Delicious.....
Or break his fast on lamprey pie served on trenchers while wearing boiled leather and bending the knee?
With mashed neeps on the side during the hour of the wolf? Don't forget the quilting under the boiled leather. Also, words are wind.
During the battle for King's Landing, Tyrion comes across a knight offering his lobstered gauntlet as a sign of surrender. Then tyrion realizes his hand is still in it.
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All leather must be boiled.
Am I the only one who just skips over all those passages?
Why wouldn't you read all of a book?
So he doesn't grow overly hungry which would lead him to eating and getting food on his book.
"swing and a miss!"
Reading about Dornish cuisine cleared up my sinuses.
not to the level where he actually wrote a cookbook though
He didn't, but someone else sure did.