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honeyspiderSo despite the fact that I've given up on Game of Thrones at episode three (for being both too rapey and sort of boring at the same time) I ordered the first book from the library ages ago and it arrived. Figured I'd start reading it even though I didn't expect to like it.
But I'm actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. I mean, I don't think it's really high literature and some of the writing is a bit iffy but it's really readable. You know when you're not sure if you're actually loving a book or just loving how enjoyable and easy it is to read? Yeah, that's how I'm sort of moving through it at the moment. It's not bogging me down with lists of names and centuries of history like a lot of high fantasy tends to do. (Which is, generally, why I avoid high fantasy. UNLESS YOU ARE LORD OF THE RINGS I WON'T READ YOUR LISTS OF NAMES BECAUSE I DON'T CARE. Tolkien has earned that right by stealing my heart, you have not. Oh, and the cliches. The fantasy tropes that we are all sick to death of. Again, I let Lord of the Rings get away with this shit because it's where everyone stole most of it from.)
So, yes, Game of Thrones is - so far, less than half way through - more enjoyable than the TV series and - HALLELUJAH - less filled with rape. This, however, might change. So don't be surprised if my next post looks like this:
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Are Robb and Jon supposed to be fourteen in the show as well? Because HOLY SHIT, THOSE ACTORS AREN'T FOURTEEN. Them being so young changes everything, I think.
Anyway, so far Tyrion and Jon are my favourites. What can I say? I like snarky clever men and I like angsty broken boys. As yet I don’t really care about anyone else. Dany is boring but, as I said, I'm really happy that her storyline isn't about how she gets raped a lot. Sansa is so sadly naive I want to hug her, Joff is a dick, Cersei and Jaime haven’t been in it enough for me to form opinions, Catelyn was annoying but now she’s riding south and is badarse. Ned would be a non-entity for me were I not picturing Sean Bean. Sean Bean can make me care about anything.
But I'm actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. I mean, I don't think it's really high literature and some of the writing is a bit iffy but it's really readable. You know when you're not sure if you're actually loving a book or just loving how enjoyable and easy it is to read? Yeah, that's how I'm sort of moving through it at the moment. It's not bogging me down with lists of names and centuries of history like a lot of high fantasy tends to do. (Which is, generally, why I avoid high fantasy. UNLESS YOU ARE LORD OF THE RINGS I WON'T READ YOUR LISTS OF NAMES BECAUSE I DON'T CARE. Tolkien has earned that right by stealing my heart, you have not. Oh, and the cliches. The fantasy tropes that we are all sick to death of. Again, I let Lord of the Rings get away with this shit because it's where everyone stole most of it from.)
So, yes, Game of Thrones is - so far, less than half way through - more enjoyable than the TV series and - HALLELUJAH - less filled with rape. This, however, might change. So don't be surprised if my next post looks like this:
:|
Are Robb and Jon supposed to be fourteen in the show as well? Because HOLY SHIT, THOSE ACTORS AREN'T FOURTEEN. Them being so young changes everything, I think.
Anyway, so far Tyrion and Jon are my favourites. What can I say? I like snarky clever men and I like angsty broken boys. As yet I don’t really care about anyone else. Dany is boring but, as I said, I'm really happy that her storyline isn't about how she gets raped a lot. Sansa is so sadly naive I want to hug her, Joff is a dick, Cersei and Jaime haven’t been in it enough for me to form opinions, Catelyn was annoying but now she’s riding south and is badarse. Ned would be a non-entity for me were I not picturing Sean Bean. Sean Bean can make me care about anything.
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:33 am (UTC)Dany gets better around the dragons though.
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:36 am (UTC)Yeah, I figured from the things I've seen about the series she gets more interesting since she grows up and all that, at the moment she's just boring though.
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:40 am (UTC)She gets some slack from me though. At the end of the day she is a 13 year old girl with responsibilities the size of a continent on her shoulder and being held up to a bar she's not sure she can reach.
(Ima throw up something on DL by the way. I am le bored.)
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:44 am (UTC)(Yes, throw at DL! Patchouli and Emilie have to have their lunch date as well! And I have to have Cathal go jump Mikhail. And I think that I should have my Russian daughter meet Emilie at some point and be all "I know you." (I just had to go look up her name and realised it's Klavdiya. And my Amber Heard character over in Strays is Claudia. APPARENTLY I have opinions on what Amber Heard's real name should be.))
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:48 am (UTC)(I was planning on setting that up and ALL OF THE AWESOME :DDD (XD it's okay I have that with me characters too)
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Date: 2011-10-31 04:52 am (UTC)(YAY SCENES! :D I have to go out to a friend's movie screening but I'll be back later to reply to things. I also want to grab you and talk about your Fassbender character that you held for DL because I had IDEAS for what he'd be great for in a plot if you didn't already :D)
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Date: 2011-10-31 05:02 am (UTC)(Sounds fair, it is up for whenevers and I shall be here :D. And no no plans yet so I will fit him into whatever plot :DDD)
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Date: 2011-10-31 05:14 am (UTC)Once she shares her idea, I can fill you in on some things too if you like the idea. Because I have peeps involved :D SO YAY I WILL HAVE CHARLIE DL-TIMES!
Also, what I actually came to say is that we tend to make all the players a DL maintainer just so they can add their own characters to the comm. Since there isn't any sort of application/approval process. You just add to the comm and then if you're a maintainer you can go to your email and accept the add.
I came to ask which journal you would like added as a maintainer or do you want to have us keep adding your characters instead?
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Date: 2011-10-31 05:17 am (UTC)Oh wow responsibility XD This one will work fine. I use this one the most and it is my main journal so it checks it automatically.
ALSO: did you still want to do that Patrick/Clio AU-thing and/or have Lucy drunk call his brother, because he is the most SRS of Hell-Princes.
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Date: 2011-10-31 05:34 am (UTC)I would love to! I'm only half here mentally lately. Still sleepy times. But I think I could handle doing some replies!
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Date: 2011-10-31 12:11 pm (UTC)But the rape stuff, just... I don't even. It was so bad, I'd actually blocked that part of the show out of my head. And then I remember and I get pissed off at them all over again.
It also irritates me that the one homosexual couple in the show is portrayed as a couple of effeminate schemers who think blood and chest hair are yucky. (I don't know whether that's reflective of their portrayal in the books, I've only read one and a bit; my friend who's read them all says not, though.)
...but so long as you just pretend those select pieces of horrible don't exist, the show's very enjoyable.
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 07:39 pm (UTC)enjoy it, damn you. finding it ironic that Tyrion is a favourite though!
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:01 pm (UTC)When to Cersei and Jaime start getting chapters?
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:02 pm (UTC)Not until book 3/4. SO WORTH IT. I love their minds.
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:05 pm (UTC)THAT'S FOREVER AWAY. Siiiigh, I would like their chapters now please.
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:08 pm (UTC)I just cannot deal with Tyrion after the clusterfuck of horrors that book 5 was. sometimes I re-read book 4 and pretend 5 was mostly a bad dream. 4 and 5 are split by character with 4 having Cersei, Sansa, Arianne, Sam and all the awesome ones basically and 5 has endless Dany shitting and Tyrion raping and just general ick. if it wasn't for MASSIVE SPOILER I'd have cried and pretended the whole thing didn't exist!
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:10 pm (UTC)Oh Tyrion, WHY WOULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS BY ACTUALLY BEING A DISGUSTING RAPIST ARSEHOLE WHEN I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW? I don't want to marry the evil rapist, please.
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:21 pm (UTC)I JUST WON'T READ UP TO THAT BOOK AND THEN HE JUST REMAINS SNARKY, HA HA!
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:28 pm (UTC)I shall see if I make it there. This all requires more library trips and such, and that's hard work.
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