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| Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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He is. No farkin' idea what his handle is, but he's on there. 
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Here is his lj: Not A Blog.
As for GoT stories, GRRM expressed many times that he doesn't want anyone to write ASOIAF fanfic. So you might want consider writing TV-verse, not bookverse, just in case.
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I guess that'll depend on how true to the books they stay, then. I certainly prefer the book storyline for True Blood to the TV series, as cool as the series is. (New ep tonight! YAY!) I was impressed with how they kept the spirit of the series in GoT without staying to the letter of the books, but I'll at least abide by the author's wishes until his death re: fic. I've borrowed the newest book from a friend at work, so I'm sure the ideas will fly thick and fast once I start it. 
The main bunny that bit me was with the younger Stark boys, Bran and Rickon, and how they might look back at their formative years, but obviously I'll have to see who actually lives to *be* an adult before I can let that bunny breed. Seriously, though, as much as everyone seems to LOOOOOOVE Katelyn Tully-Stark, she's dropping the ball re: motherhood. Little Rickon's just been forgotten entirely to run wild like his direwolf. I hesitate to call it 'playing favorites' on her part because I can't begin to fathom how raising 5 kids must be, but it sure as hell looks like it!
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Well, and also, if she went back and played Mommy at this point, that might be awkward. (I read right up to Feast for Crows, and I don't want to get any more specific for fear of spoilers.)
Thanks for the link, Binks. I probably won't indulge the bunny that's been hopping in my brain. It was Lyanna-centered, and she has cropped up in the show even less than she did in the books, which was mostly as a plot device to begin with. Love them tertiary characters.
I still haven't read the Southern Vampire books, though folks keep recommending them. Just not sure if I can stomach book after book of first-person POV in the head of Sookie Stackhouse, who is one of my least favorite characters on the TV show. |
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True, but if we're going to talk about finishing a thing begun, shouldn't her youngest children be on that list somewhere? (Wow, I asked that while avoiding spoilery stuff. Go Drunk Neuy!)
As for the Southern Vampire stories, yes, she's a flibbitygibbet (Thank you, Rogers and Hammerstein, for the term) and more than a bit of a ditz. Luckily, Harris's writing is good enough in terms of setting, detail, and pacing that I can usually look past it... except a few random moments in certain books where I kind of wish for a basilisk fang to stab it. It can be a fun challenge to read a first person PoV where you don't quite trust the narrator, but I've read them all b/c she sets up such an interesting world, and the other characters more than make up for her lead character for me.
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Ok, so having watched the first season (kinda sucked watching Bean die AGAIN!) I am now half (?) way through "Clash of Kings" and one thing keeps nagging at me:
I have a very strong hunch about who Jon Snow's mother was. Of course, I could be wrong, but it seems SO OBVIOUS! but, given how the story has played out, I can't see how he/we will ever find out for sure. This is bothering me immensely every time the subject comes up.
I know it's petty, but is there any one else out there who feels the same way?
Have to just say, I am at a place in the story where I used to be very worried for Arya, but now I am very worried for Bran.
I'm reading it on my nook, and have the nook app for my phone which is why my productivity at work has been suffering lately! Bad Nancy!
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| Viv wrote: | | I probably won't indulge the bunny that's been hopping in my brain. It was Lyanna-centered, and she has cropped up in the show even less than she did in the books, which was mostly as a plot device to begin with. Love them tertiary characters. |
Well, if you did indulge that bunny, you'd have at least one reader in me. I totally agree with you about tertiary characters, and GRRM isn't leaving a whole lot of story gaps here for our imaginations to fill in.
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| NancyBrooke wrote: |
I have a very strong hunch about who Jon Snow's mother was. [...]
I know it's petty, but is there any one else out there who feels the same way? |
You are not alone.
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Well, if you did indulge that bunny, you'd have at least one reader in me. I totally agree with you about tertiary characters, and GRRM isn't leaving a whole lot of story gaps here for our imaginations to fill in. |
The only problem with that is that he's asked that nobody write fan fic in his world. I'm at least waiting until the series is finished before I let any of the thousands of bunnies it has spawned grow into anything else.
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | NancyBrooke wrote: |
Well, if you did indulge that bunny, you'd have at least one reader in me. I totally agree with you about tertiary characters, and GRRM isn't leaving a whole lot of story gaps here for our imaginations to fill in. |
The only problem with that is that he's asked that nobody write fan fic in his world. I'm at least waiting until the series is finished before I let any of the thousands of bunnies it has spawned grow into anything else. |
There's writing and then there's posting ... I have an e-mail address, just sayin' (as if GRRM hadn't given us enough to read already).
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I have... acquired... the first season. Loved the first episode and immediately... acquired... the books.
Now to find time to READ them. My Muses have been most... insistent. I don't get it. THEY go on Vacay for FOUR years and leave me in the dark and just as I'm pretty much about to give it up and return to my first love - books - they show up with chocolate and flowers and demands.
A Long LIST of demands. Nasty buggers.
by the way - I hope whoever produced GoT - as apparently they've done a wonderful job - is given Wheel of Time when it is completed next year. I'm so boing boing for that! 
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Ok, so having watched the first season (kinda sucked watching Bean die AGAIN!) |
I SO feel your pain.
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I'm a rebel. Sorry GRRM. I'm writing GoT fanfic if Do ends up making it a category
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