reliance no, parody yes. the "it's a dwarf.... with an axe!!!¡!11lololol geddit" stuff in the first book is sub-pratchett at best :-\
― aphid bokmål (dude dude), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
when's the next volume due out
― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
i am re-reading this series again.
hi guys.
when is the next book coming out? wikipedia says "hopefully 2007."
― ian, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
When I try to open that link up there the page has this horrible ad I can't get to go away, but I hear they are doing the series like 1 book = 1 season, which I think is a brilliant approach to an adaptation of a fantasy series.
A fantasy series I have yet to start reading. I am totally stealing my mom's copy of Game of Thrones this weekend though (this is the first book, right?).
― nickalicious, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i can't get past the first three pages of this.
― akm, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(the first book in the series, that is)
nicka, you will love this i am fairly certain. and yes, that's the first one.
― ian, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I wonder if Nickalicious read this.
Does an ILXor play either the card game or board game based on these books? Got a bunch of cards cheap, totally playing this shit.
― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
when the next one?
― s1ocki, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
don't ask.
― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
amazon says end of september.
― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
:\
― Szimeon Tarbuş (☪), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS fuckin guy.
― ian, Monday, 10 November 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
What the hell is going on with this guy? He's got like six million projects.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
With Robert Jordan gone, someone had to claim the throne.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy is going to die and leave an unfinished legacy.
― Joe Pinot (rockapads), Monday, 10 November 2008 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
YOU MOTHERFUCKER YOU KILLED XXXX!!!!!
XXXXXX XXXX CAN SUCK MY NUTS!!!!
omg the red wedding jesus christ i can't believe this shit happened.
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate the lannisters so much (except tyrion)
I flipped through Game of Thrones in the bookstore a couple times based on Ian recommending this stuff but couldn't get myself to pull the trigger
― dmr, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
omg matt i'm so glad you're reading these books.you have a lot of BALLS OUT INSANITY to look forward to.
dave, it doesn't strike me as the kind of thing you'd be into honestly. Having never heard you mention anything involving knights in shining armor.
― ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
WHARE IS NEXT BOOK YOU FUCKS
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously ian...what the HELL! it's crazy...like i mean even after the end of the first book you expect that "no one is safe"...to a degree...
the "red wedding" though...holy crap i have zero idea what is going to happen from here on out....
all my fav characters get killed.
jon snow better pull through for me. love that guy. and arya is awesome too.
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
never coming.i should re-read the first four this winter so i don't go crazy. xp
― ian, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha M@tt that was the exact same reaction I had
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man i probably shouldn't have said that in my first post, that's a big time spoiler, can a mod take the first line out?
xpost dan it was UNREAL...i seriously read those 4-5 page three times just to be like "um...did this just happen???"
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i want a direwolf for xmas
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i just finished a reread last week. book four is a lot better than i remember but nearly as omgwtf as the first three.
― didactic katydid (Lamp), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(thx for the mod fix, would hate to spoil that for someone)
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The most irritating part of this interminable delay is that Book 5 was SUPPOSED TO BE DONE ALREADY. He was supposed to have finished Book 4 and found it too long and split it into two. WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A HEAD-START.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that's the conclusion I came to myself after I read a few passages
I can fuck with some pulp but I'm more sci-fi / hard-boiled crime
people on this thread seem really into it though!! carry on with your feastening
― dmr, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha i got to the end of book four and read the meanwhile back on the wall part and hez like "don't worry its basically finished" lol george
― didactic katydid (Lamp), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i had held off for a long time even though everyone at work was forcing this on me like some freaking nerd jehovah's witnesses...i saw how long they were and was like "oh by time i get done with all that reading the next one will be out"....i didn't realize how quick of a read a near 1000 page book could be.
― eatin' mangos in trinidad with attorneys (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
If this guy dies before finishing this series I'm going to be very cross.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
OK just finished storm of sword...
the last page....um....W.....T.....F??????
a lot of shit happened in the last half of that book.
i'm still trying to keep track of it all in my head.
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oooooh, man
― tom cruise knows we have to kill hitler (Lamp), Friday, 5 December 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
i read the prologue to feast for crows, but i'm getting the sense this is gonna be a whole nother can of worms, like focusing on other stuff not the arc of the first three??
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah no, it's mostly just that it only focuses on a subset of the characters from the first three. Supposedly the other characters will return in the next book if it it ever comes out.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, basically he split the character arcs out into two distinct books, so the ones who mostly were ignored in A Storm of Swords should be front and center in the now-verging-on-mythical A Feast Of Crows.
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
okay sorry I'm retarded, the other one that I can't remember the name of is the mythical one
― Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Dance of Death or whatever.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
dance of dragons i think
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Ahaha someone is mixing up his genre thrillers? It's A Dance with Dragons, according to His Lazy Majesty's web page.
― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the dance of dragons is mentioned in an offhand comment in storm of swords...
i think it refers to the wars that brought the taregyans (sp?) to power way back in the day
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Whatever it's called, I wish this fucker would finish it already.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that's my biggest problem with the HBO series, even if it's good, it's just one more distraction for him.
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure the problem is one of distraction though.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i have no idea i just figure the busier he is the harder it will be to get done with the books.
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the guys at work that are Super Fans bitch that he seems to only care about the NFL on his blog
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 5 December 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link