So I spent my vacation mainlining George RR Martin and was finally able to start ADWD when I got back without being totally lost. AFFC definitely improves on reread (mainly because this time I wasn't skimming through all the Iron Islands chapters going "YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???") but man, it's good to be back with the Northern characters again. I'm remarkably unspoiled too, which is surprising since I did read all the whitefont in this thread when it first came out.
I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jessica - Aug 17, 2011 7:23:31 am PDT #16088 of 28289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Liese S. - Aug 17, 2011 12:55:05 pm PDT #16089 of 28289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha, your character preferences are my character preferences! I bought adwd while on the road but didn't make much progress with the busy nature of my summers. But I have a week or two now, so I expect to blaze through pretty quick now that I'm home.
Amy - Aug 17, 2011 2:28:38 pm PDT #16090 of 28289
Because books.
"YOU'RE BORING WHERE THE FUCK ARE TYRION AND DAENERYS???"
This is pretty much me, if you add Jon Snow, and I'm only on A Clash of Kings. I do like Davos Seaworth so far, though. Crap, I hope I got that name right.
sumi - Aug 18, 2011 9:16:53 am PDT #16091 of 28289
Art Crawl!!!
Have you guys heard of Booklamp? It's supposed to be like Pandora, only for books.
(Davos Seaworth is right. I like him too.)
Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2011 9:19:18 am PDT #16092 of 28289
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Would You Please Fucking Stop? by Ursula K. Le Guin
DavidS - Aug 18, 2011 9:37:24 am PDT #16093 of 28289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heh.
Soldiers and sailors have always cursed, what else can they do? But Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead was forced to use the euphemistic invention “fugging,” giving Dorothy Parker the chance, which naturally she didn’t miss, of cooing at him, “Oh, are you the young man who doesn’t know how to spell ‘fuck?’”
Strix - Aug 18, 2011 9:46:32 am PDT #16094 of 28289
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Interesting piece. I like a good, soulful swear session, and enjoy creating a long, drawn out invective, but sometimes you just need to shouting "Fucking FUCK!" at the top of your lungs.
As a teacher, i told my students they could say anything they wanted in my class, curse-word wise...as soon as they turned in a paper detailing the etymology of the word(s) they wished to use, and a list of 10 alternates to the word.
No one ever did it, and I continued to tell students that certain words were not allowed, unless they fulfilled the requirement.
Although I DID have a female student who went on a 5 minutes, profanity-filled diatribe full of insightful character analysis about a character in "The Poisonwood Bible" which, curse words or no, was one of the most thoughtful pieces of student analysis I'd ever heard, and I said nary a word to her.
She got a standing O from the class. It was...fucking awesome.
Toddson - Aug 18, 2011 10:10:47 am PDT #16095 of 28289
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I get so tired of sitting someplace - often the bus or the subway - and someone's talking and the ONLY adverb or adjective they seem to know is the one Ms. Le Guin cited. sigh.
smonster - Aug 18, 2011 10:21:10 am PDT #16096 of 28289
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
She got a standing O from the class. It was...fucking awesome.
I wish I'd heard that.
megan walker - Aug 18, 2011 10:33:49 am PDT #16097 of 28289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
sometimes you just need to shouting "Fucking FUCK!" at the top of your lungs.
I did that just this morning when I couldn't get Outlook to open so I could connect to a conf call with the president of my company on the line.
Luckily, I'm the only one in the office today.