Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!

Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'


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 - May 30, 2013 8:16:14 am PDT #20843 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ooh, I like that last one! That would explain their Targaryen-esque sibling relationship, for one.


DebetEsse - May 30, 2013 8:33:01 am PDT #20844 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.

And I deeply love the idea that Tyrion is Tywin's only kid. I suppose also that Jaime is both Kingslayer and Kinslayer. Okay, too, that NEITHER of Joffrey's sigils are accurate. That one makes me laugh.


Polter-Cow - May 30, 2013 9:05:45 am PDT #20845 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ha, Jessica, magic tree x-post.


askye - May 30, 2013 10:28:03 am PDT #20846 of 28370
Thrive to spite them

If both theories are right that would make Jamie and Cersei and Jon Snow siblings and Danaerys would be there aunt. Right? It's been awhile since I've read the books and I don't think I finished the last one.


le nubian - May 30, 2013 10:57:28 am PDT #20847 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have read the white font, and having not read any of the books, the white font does not make sense to me at all.

It has been fun to read though.


DebetEsse - May 30, 2013 11:00:45 am PDT #20848 of 28370
Woe to the fucking wicked.

No. Both the twins and Dany would be Aerys's. Jon would be nephew to the three of them, and half-brother to Griff (if he is who they say he is)


Polgara - May 30, 2013 11:01:54 am PDT #20849 of 28370
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS

I've never read the books, and have only seen one episode, but thanks to this discussion, I just spent an hour reading all the character histories on Wikipedia. My brain hurts.


le nubian - May 30, 2013 11:07:26 am PDT #20850 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I just finished Tana French's Broken Harbor and after the first third of the book, I thought this was a really promising and interesting novel.

By the time I got to the end, I was pretty irritated and do not want to read any of the author's books again, and I cannot recommend this book to anyone at all.

The book is a "mystery" about the death of a family in a house in a remote seaside community in Ireland. There is one surviving member of the attack on the family. I will reveal no spoilers.

My first clue that I would not like the book is that the plot did not advance in any way about 30% in. The police investigators were still at the house, still in the first initial hours of investigation through a good bit of the book. Ostensibly the author was building character during that time, but unfortunately the character-building came apart at the seams in the latter part of the book when people acted completely out of character and inexplicably to get to the final very contrived events of the book.

What was worse is that there are characters in the book, whom the investigators encounter, who have mental illnesses. The author either didn't care or was sloppy about trying to explain what exactly was going on with the characters' illnesses. The particular symptoms and causes (if they could be established) would have been relevant to character development. Not a psychiatrist, but from my reading and knowing of others, psychological illnesses don't really work they way French portrayed them. I don't know what kind of research the author did, but man.


Tom Scola - May 30, 2013 11:08:13 am PDT #20851 of 28370
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

askye, that kind of speculation is pointless when Targaryens are involved, as illustrated by Oleanna's speech in the last TV episode.


Polter-Cow - May 30, 2013 11:09:38 am PDT #20852 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

le nubian, that seems to be how that author works. I was reading reviews for In the Woods, and it also appears to be a "mystery" in that APPARENTLY THEY NEVER ACTUALLY SOLVE THE MURDER.