HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

i wasnt complaining abt the grossness, rather i exclaimed "this prose is just so horrid!" as i typed like rabid wolf after a fox

ha sry that was a terrible impression i only listened to part of the first one

my review: it is bad

The prose isn't what one reads these books for

Oh god I've soldiered through spec-fic novels with far worse prose than GRRM.

Try Peter F Hamilton some time.

no u cant make me

It's not like he's as bad as John Updike.

um hello he is much worse than john updike

yeah tbh ASOIAF is actually better-written than most contemporary genre stuff. says a lot about contemporary genre stuff.

How would you rewrite those passages to improve the prose

more peppers!

Gregor couldn't get enough of those fiery Dornish peepers

I think he generally describes what's happening reasonably efficiently and evocatively, don't want a great deal more from heavily plot-driven stuff TBH.

He thrust his free hand into Oberyn’s unprotected face, pushing steel fingers into his eyes. “Then I raped her.” Clegane slammed his fist into the Dornishman’s mouth, making splinters of his teeth.

he popped his head open and brains went everywhere and a dwarf vomits. i raped yr sister lol.

That extract makes me very glad I'm watching and not reading.

I think he generally describes what's happening reasonably efficiently

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 6:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the craziest thought someones probably ever had like even if you love the books you cant believe this

not that i think they need to be efficient

me rapist I crush you head dwarf barf

how's that for efficient

"I killed her, screaming "welp"..."

hahahahaha i didnt realize he actually went full on GRRM feast-description in that passage

its like the adrenaline high point of the entire fucking series and he cant help but describe a fucking feast

not just that but i love how imagining tyrion's vomit he can't help himself from thinking 'ooh, and there'd be bits of bacon in it! and applecakes! and fiery dornish peppers!', it's like he's writing that sentence specifically to appeal to a dog.

It's unintentional self-parody (if gyac wasn't playing subtle editor there).

alas

lagoon I'd read yr rewrite of GOT books if you are so inclined fyi

brevity is source of wit and really just easier for everyone

cool ill get to work on that shd be done in like 40 years

Not very efficient. : \

yet he'll still beat martin to the end

there is no limit to GRRM's ability to just start thinking about food in the middle of writing something

― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 5:28 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its like the adrenaline high point of the entire fucking series and he cant help but describe a fucking feast

― max, Tuesday, June 3, 2014 6:28 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im dying with laughter over here

it's so true

"and with cries of anguish she screamed as her brother took sword blow after sword blow, crimson rivers of blood flowing down the palace steps, while onlookers feasted on glistening slabs of suckling pig freshly roasted with young crabapples, brandywine filling their ornate goblets to wash the juices that sheened their hungry mouths...."

Good lord how did you people slog through that

well that one's parody unless my eyes were deeply glazed over by the last leg

of chicken, its juices trickling down walder frey's chin as he smiled at rob stark kneeling, rivers of blood pouring from his wounds and pooling about the suckling pig that had been swept off a nearby table by a dying north bannerman, apple still firmly within its teeth.

https://i.imgur.com/q1GkkoM.png

the kinda comical say whaaaat look tyrion had on his face at the end (like he'd never seen a pizza that large or something)

Not caught up on the thread yet but need to highlight this. Lmao

those bastard name sound like mls team names to me.

― ryan, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:02 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark

Hahaha nailed it

I've heard that his other books are written in a more restrained manner. Quite a few fans of things like Fevre Dream, Sand Kings and Armageddon Rag apparently don't like the Ice And Fire series.
I bought Fevre Dream a few months before Game Of Thrones tv show started and I still haven't read it but I'm still looking forward to it.

its like the adrenaline high point of the entire fucking series and he cant help but describe a fucking feast

― max, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 6:28 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not just that but i love how imagining tyrion's vomit he can't help himself from thinking 'ooh, and there'd be bits of bacon in it! and applecakes! and fiery dornish peppers!', it's like he's writing that sentence specifically to appeal to a dog.

― balls, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 6:40 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Probably for the spoiler thread but yeah like 50% of the books are descriptions of food and 49.9% descriptions of clothing

Did you guys know that there were 77 dishes served at Joffrey's wedding and he describes every single fucking one of them

I wanna know who the teenage nihilist is they have on the writing crew

Arya's "nothing" speech last ep and the Beetle Speech this ep

Every time they need some kind of pontification on the nihlism of existence they ring up this dude

i loved arya's nothing speech. the arya-hound stuff is far and away the best subplot this season, and aside from charles dance and michael mcelhatton theyre the best regulars

does that include littlefinger's ladder monologue from last season too

Yeah my love for teenage nihilism is clear as I've demonstrated on the True Detective thread

But the tone of those monologues always feels very distinct from the rest of the show, maybe I just have an acute nihilism detector

I am feeling the Sansa & Littlefinger subplot as well - Arya and the Hound is an amazing double-act but it's mostly just been them walking around and occasionally killing some people.

Really hope all these characters come together properly at the Vale though. Brienne & Podrick need to meet Arya & The Hound, it can only lead to deeply suspicious wagon-circling lols.

FWIW I found the flayed ironborn more gross than Oberyn

Also re: infection talk upthread, don't forget that the Hound is walking pusbag right now

omg the beetle speech was so not nihilistic

Seemed that way to me

You wanna know why this guy is killing all these beetles

But then a horse kicks him in the head

Life is pointless like that sometimes

Or sometimes the world sends something along to kill murderous idiots