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grrrm

Rants and Visual Rhetoric

Aug 17, 2011 09:32

For starters, if I hear the phrase "Kissed by fire" once more, I'm going to punch ADWD in the face. I don't know exactly where its face is, but I assume it's somewhere on the front cover. We know they have the word red in their vocabulary, and it seems like every guy with red hair in these books is noted as having, oddly enough, red hair, but for ( Read more... )

graphs, adwd

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ext_699340 August 20 2011, 07:31:07 UTC

Zumm. Guyman --newsflash-- grrm already reported ppl are angry with him about repeating catch phrases to that aol lady when she confronted him about agressive questions on the show which he dodged.

u should be like me and have quit reading the book after reaching page 56. because a. i have something to look forward to eventually. and b. i'm not bitching as much as you are, which by the way is gross.

cairech September 16 2011, 20:03:02 UTC

but we're angry and bitching together, which makes all the difference.

illusionaltzu August 21 2011, 20:39:14 UTC

I completely agree with you, especially the last part about the MEN WITH SWORDS being boring as fuck and missing the young people, the little people, the ones whose emotions and souls were interesting to share. I couldn't care less what the interchangeable MEN WITH A DUTY think or say about anything. Why are they even in this story? What was the point to any of those incredibly boring chapters?

And I'm in full agreement with your mother about every Daenerys chapter being the same. I swear it felt like every other chapter in ADwD was more of her endlessly boring drivel. I'd finish a boring chapter about a MAN WITH SWORD and eagerly turn the page hoping for something interesting but nope... more Daenerys. Doing and thinking more of the same, again. She hasn't been an interesting character since the first book.

bla bla bla, bla blaaaaa, Stark, bla blaaaa, and some more bla, just for the bla ext_760732 August 24 2011, 21:44:17 UTC

In the end, what bugs me of is people calling GRRM the american Tolkien. It's insulting.

Yeah, aGoT was great. But since then he hasn't stopped ruining it. And it's getting worse and worse. I bet with you that in WoW we'll have a snowman coming back to life and everyone at the Wall will be chasing him to eat that delicious carrot he has as a nose. And that we'll take 3 chapters.

And then we'll have Santa Claus. But only during 1 chapter cause he goes to Skagos to help Onion Davos save the Stark-kid-GRRM-doesn't-give-a-shit-about, and gets eaten. Cause over there they like human flesh and Santa has plenty of it. They probably rape him first, thus allowing HBO to show some man-boobs as well.

Meanwhile John will stay dead during 999 pages and in page 1000 Melisandre+(kissed by fire)^2 will give it a pray and tadaaaaaaaam, another zombie.

Said that, it seems to me that the only resemblance between Tolkien and Martin it's in the name: jRRt and gRRm. And even that seems cheap rip off.

cairech September 16 2011, 20:01:18 UTC

Oh look! Pick up sticks!

Gah - you're right about men with swords and duty. Dutiful dudes with - ok, i ran out of alliteration. No! Dirks! Dutiful dudes with dirks.

Nevermind, I forgot what I was going to say. Wait. Here it is.

#4 and #5 both need phantom edits. Who did that movie? Do they work on books?

And really, how can it be that after just 3 successful novels, GRRM gets to skip editing altogether? Does Publishing not realize they're going to completely lose the base fantasy readership this way? I am serious-like-asphalt-face-plant here. Yeah, WoT was nice at first, and we all survived HP. But. This. Can. Not. Continue.

ext_793240 September 17 2011, 11:46:15 UTC

Yeah, you're totally right. I thought GRRM was genius at first, always focused on the bastards, the cripples and the broken instead of kings and queens, and there is still a pinch of that somewhere even in late additions(Lef-hand Jaime, Ugly Brienne...). Also, though I like that he killed his main characters without pity, the consequences have been horrible. He kills some and gives very little of the ones left, even if they are far more interesting (Bran, Arya, Sansa, Rickon...), and we have to cope with all this plain characters, the estereotypes we - as readers- were fleeing from in the first place when we found GOT ( ... )