I expect we won't be going to Dorne.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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."
DebetEsse - Mar 22, 2014 4:40:02 am PDT #22211 of 28344
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Gris - Mar 22, 2014 5:08:14 am PDT #22212 of 28344
Hey. New board.
Which I think is too bad. I am fascinated by dorne.
Jessica - Mar 22, 2014 5:09:25 am PDT #22213 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd be up for a Sand Snakes spinoff.
DebetEsse - Mar 22, 2014 5:10:02 am PDT #22214 of 28344
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I was bored by most of those chapters, but I expect I will be more invested during my re-read.
-t - Mar 22, 2014 5:16:32 am PDT #22215 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Mmm, Sand Snakes are good times. I love Dorne.
erin_obscure - Mar 24, 2014 4:42:42 pm PDT #22216 of 28344
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I think the (well founded) concern WRT GRRM finishing the series is that he is NOT a speedy writer, he started writing the series in 1991 and it is very far from finished. And keeps expanding with seemingly every passing month. Interesting tidbit: one of my friend picked up a first edition of GoT on his recent travels. The jacket blurb talks about his writing the second follow up book "Dance with Dragon." Dear me, he sort of injected how many pages of narrative btwn publishing GoT and DwD? The world is so very large and just keeps expanding...it has rather run away without him. I just hope someone finishes is before *I* die.
As for spin offs...well I should hope he wouldn't be investing any time in writing those! Though I also think a full Sand Snakes show would be very worthy of HBO's attention. Or Inside the Maesters' Training program. Or both.
-t - Mar 24, 2014 4:44:41 pm PDT #22217 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I might like the Dunk and Egg stories more than aSoIaF.
erin_obscure - Mar 24, 2014 4:46:28 pm PDT #22218 of 28344
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Unrelated, has anyone else read Audrey Niffeneger's _The Night Bookmobile?_. It's a short story and I'm utterly in love. She and Erin Morgenstern should hang out. And tape all their conversations. But like with many of her other works, I'm torn between lauding it as a praise of blissful readership or frowning upon it as a cautionary tale. I suppose it's really somewhere in btween, but i'm still in that post-reading haze where my thoughts haven't had time to settle and congeal.
Polter-Cow - Mar 24, 2014 5:12:18 pm PDT #22219 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I enjoyed Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist, but I'm abandoning Zone One. Two discs in, the main character has no personality and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. It's basically all worldbuilding and language, and I can't appreciate that via audiobook. Literary fiction with zombies seems intriguing, though.
Amy - Mar 24, 2014 5:20:21 pm PDT #22220 of 28344
Because books.
Is The Intuitionist the elevator inspector one?