I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree.
Tom Send a noteboard - 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM
Everyone is in movement. Victarion is going to see Dany. Tyrion is going to see Dany. Stannis is going to fight Roose Bolton and his bastard son. Theon is...repulsive. Arya is going to become an assassin. Dany is trying to figure out how to do something, anything, but isn't ruthless enough to kill the people she needs to in order to assert authority.
No one resolves these issues. Not only that, but the only person who actually gets where they're going, Quentyn Tyrell, manages to become a charcoal briquet. We see no battles, no action, no resolution. NOTHING.
I regret wasting the time to read this book. I could have spent the time more effectively reading Der Zauberberg or Анна Каренина, the two decent books on my bedside table.
Crossroads of Twilight was a miserable book as well.
I am rapidly coming to a simple conclusion: fantasy is escapist crap, and not worth reading. Jordan and Martin have both created engaging entertainment, only to become full of themselves, filled with needless hubris (you're fucking fantasy writers, not someone important) and lost focus - completely.
No one resolves these issues. Not only that, but the only person who actually gets where they're going, Quentyn Tyrell, manages to become a charcoal briquet. We see no battles, no action, no resolution. NOTHING.
I regret wasting the time to read this book. I could have spent the time more effectively reading Der Zauberberg or Анна Каренина, the two decent books on my bedside table.
Crossroads of Twilight was a miserable book as well.
I am rapidly coming to a simple conclusion: fantasy is escapist crap, and not worth reading. Jordan and Martin have both created engaging entertainment, only to become full of themselves, filled with needless hubris (you're fucking fantasy writers, not someone important) and lost focus - completely.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light?
- 28/07/2011 03:30:30 PM
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It's impossible for nothing to happen in AMoL.
- 28/07/2011 07:30:02 PM
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Oh, you're so cute in your innocence!
- 02/08/2011 06:14:37 AM
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Re: A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light?
- 28/07/2011 07:37:24 PM
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Actually, there is growing discontent, even among those who've defended Martin.
- 07/08/2011 11:05:33 PM
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Those who says that nothing happens in ADWD really need to read CoT
- 29/07/2011 12:02:23 PM
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Watching grass grow is better than reading CoT, so it's not saying much for ADWD *NM*
- 30/07/2011 02:10:12 AM
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A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM*
- 31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM
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Agreed. It could be argued that more happens in the epilogue of ADWD than all of CoT. *NM*
- 01/08/2011 01:27:58 AM
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I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree.
- 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM
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I do request that you don't lump ALL of fantasy into those two authors 
- 02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM
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- 02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM
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You are completely overlooking his point, however.
- 02/08/2011 06:12:45 AM
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F*** you, you idiot. *NM*
- 02/08/2011 06:13:48 AM
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At least he didn't ramble for five thousand words before actually making a point. 
*NM*
- 03/08/2011 11:04:06 PM
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- 03/08/2011 11:04:06 PM
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Wait... You want intelligent meaningful books, but you're demanding action?
- 02/08/2011 06:52:00 AM
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I think the issue is conflating fantasy with the multi-volume epics than anything I'd disagree with
- 03/08/2011 04:05:12 AM
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Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
- 02/08/2011 06:24:47 AM
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Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
- 07/08/2011 10:40:41 PM
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Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
- 19/08/2011 12:07:24 PM
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Okay I'm not reading any of the replies in this thread until I finish ADwD, but I just wanted to say
- 10/08/2011 01:49:11 PM
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