Re: A Song of Ice and Fire

by Lancebloke Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:35 pm

Right, so done with book 2! No book 3 and 4 which are just book 3 but in 2 books, like books 6 and 7 which are book 5 and unlike book 4 which is actually book 5... but not books 6 and 7 like I said a second ago... bounce

by halfwise Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:01 pm

Oh just plop your ass down and keep reading. Mad

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:04 pm

Spoiler:

by Radaghast Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:07 pm

by Lancebloke Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:08 pm

halfwise wrote:Oh just plop your ass down and keep reading.

I need a break... I only started the first book 2 weeks ago.

by halfwise Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:58 pm

That far along in two weeks? Fiendishly addictive, aren't they?

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:13 pm

I think I broke Youtube

by Eldorion Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:24 pm

Are you getting the "highly trained team of monkeys" error message too?

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:30 pm

yep what the heck is happening? has it been hacked? Shocked

by Radaghast Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:37 pm

I'm not experiencing any problems Shrugging

by Eldorion Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:52 pm

It's just a server error. A site like YouTube requires such a massive amount of hardware to handle its traffic that problems just crop up from time to time. The site's already working for me again, though that's not necessarily the case for everyone since there are so many different servers.

Actual hacking makes up only a tiny percentage of all Internet errors and downtime.

by Lancebloke Fri Mar 14, 2014 8:02 am

halfwise wrote:That far along in two weeks? Fiendishly addictive, aren't they?

I have at least 2 hours of train time every week day and I just couldn't carry on playing Flappy Bird.

by Mrs Figg Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:28 pm

give Flappy Bird the Bird. anyway just get on with it, I want you to start watching the series, I want to know what your thoughts are on the tv adaptation. At least start season 1, it wont ruin book 3. Actualy season 1 was a bit of a slow burn, the first two episodes didnt really do it for me, but I kept watching and by the end of season 1 I was hooked. Every season just gets better and better.

by Lancebloke Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:50 pm

Oi you! We aren't married and I don't rely in you for.... things... so you can't tell me what to do! Gonna start book 3 and read all of that now before I start watching!!!

by Bluebottle Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:55 pm

How are you finding the books, Lance? Judging by your tempo they must have struck some sort of chord.

I'm about halfway throught he second book now, but I have, as I said before, already seen the series.

by Lancebloke Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:03 pm

I do sometimes find some of the violence and sexual references serve no purpose other than, possibly, to shock people a bit. Having said that, I have never studied the histories of many sackings, rapes & pillages or detailed downfalls of civilisations to understand if this is close to the reality of our past.

Makes me think... quite an intricate set of overlapping plots. I often find I have no idea who some people are or where others have gone to.

Tyrion I like and intrigued more about what is going on up north than the rest of the world.

I want to read more.

by Mrs Figg Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:14 pm

Lancebloke wrote:Oi you! We aren't married and I don't rely in you for.... things... so you can't tell me what to do! Gonna start book 3 and read all of that now before I start watching!!!

by Lancebloke Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:43 pm

Is that going to be a spoiler?

by Mrs Figg Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:56 pm

yep thats Jon Snow with Ghost Rolling Eyes

by Lancebloke Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:56 pm

Figgy! You ruined it for everyone now. I knew something was going on with him but didn't expect he was trying to sabotage a race!

Mad

by Mrs Figg Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:13 pm

oops

by Radaghast Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:12 am

Lancebloke wrote:I do sometimes find some of the violence and sexual references serve no purpose other than, possibly, to shock people a bit. Having said that, I have never studied the histories of many sackings, rapes & pillages or detailed downfalls of civilisations to understand if this is close to the reality of our past.

Unfortunately, I think it does mirror our own history.

by halfwise Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:46 am

I wouldn't say he's trying to shock so much as not editing out what normally gets edited out.

by Bluebottle Sun Mar 16, 2014 10:48 am

Sex and violence is a part of reality, so one could say giving it room in a story, particularily one set in a medieval fantasy world, actually adds realism. Though it standing out probably has something to do with the norms of the genre as well, as Halfwise says.

It can of course be overdone and become gratuitous, though I feel they are skirting closer to that line in the series than in the books.

by Mrs Figg Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:59 pm

6th April