Is Jilli around? Any comments/favorites of Steven Brusts' work? Those who aren't Jili please weigh in too - I'm in the dark.
I actually haven't read a lot of Brusts' work. I loved The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, and I enjoyed his vampire book (Aygar, I think?), but that's about all I've read. I know a lot of people like the Jhereg series, but they never really grabbed me. (I am not much for epic fantasy.)
Speaking of GRRM and epic fantasy and whatnot: he's doing a signing in Seattle that you have to buy tickets for. Do I want to do this just so I can get my copy of Fevre Dream signed? I've never read Game of Thrones, and I don't plan on doing so.
May have just convinced a friend to use Feed as a supplemental text for his fall social media graduate class.
Oh, awesome! Please let me know if that happens so I can tell Seanan.
I just finished
Deadline.
I liked it. Shit got real a LOT.
I will now start ADwD.
I just finished Deadline. I liked it. Shit got real a LOT.
And I just finished
Blackout.
You are not prepared.
I despise you, P-C.
I just finished Deadline, and it fucking rocks, and if you have an ARC of Blackout...I'm gonna call your mom and tell her you are secretly married to a Roman-Catholic girl as pale as snow, who works in a sweat shop when she's not moonlighting as a call girl.
(Damn, that's a pretty good threat! Did it work?!)
damn, that made ME scared.
Will do, PC. Thanks Jilli!
I grabbed the first Jani Killian book per recs here and brought it along on the business trip I'm on...an d basically had to force myself to put it down and go to my meetings.
Wow, Erin does excellent threat.
Also: okay - got ADWD - read like the wind. Now all !!!!! But not sure who I can talk to about it.
Impression - having read the whole book:
NOT JON SNOW!!!! noooooooo
I may reread and have a more reasonable response. At some other time. I do have thoughts on the topic that is spoilered.
Such as:
if warging ability gets amplified by trauma perhaps Jon getting Julius Caesared will cause him to warg into Ghost and uh. . .maybe somehow they can heal his body and uh. . would that work? I keep hoping that the kids and the wolves will get back together. Perhaps via Wargmail Bran and Jon will somehow meet up. The tree thing in Melisandre's vision suggests some sort of Bran related influence. (Also - Dunc totally is Hodor's Grandpa. Of course, Dunk probably has descendents all over Westeros.) I hope in WoW that Davos does meet up with Osha and Rickon although I didn't get the hint of where they were that GRRM gives us.
And
very thin on the Jaime. . . I suppose that the word that Brienne said was "Arya." But she doesn't actually know where Arya is. .. but then I thought, perhaps Arya will be crossing the Narrow Sea again.
I remember somebody somewhere (here?) saying that
the Dany and Jon stories - were the least believable but I think in this book we certainly see that although they are in positions of power they cannot use that power effectively. I mean, here is Jon trying so hard to do the right thing and winding up isolating himself and surrounded by enemies - most of them in the Night's Watch. I wonder if the Wildlings with Val will be the ones to come to his defense, save his body and with the Boar-warging guy - try to save his life. I believe that Melisandre should have realized by now that Jon is her whatever the thing is that she is trying to make Stannis into. Meanwhile, Dany can't seem to take a step forward, no wonder GRRM called it the Meereen knot.
