I have some rules about reading his books to make them more enjoyable, chief amongst them is: If a paragraph starts with a description of food, ends with a description of food, and at a glance mentions food in the middle, skip the entire paragraph. I swear I've not read most of some pages because of this rule.
Long pointless descriptions of food is a fantasy staple.
I have some rules about reading his books to make them more enjoyable, chief amongst them is: If a paragraph starts with a description of food, ends with a description of food, and at a glance mentions food in the middle, skip the entire paragraph. I swear I've not read most of some pages because of this rule.
Long pointless descriptions of food is a fantasy staple.
Like, seriously, this is a mainstay of Tolkien.
GRRM manages to bore me in a way Tolkien never did. Also I don't really care if its a staple or not. The way GRRM does it and the frequency with which he does it makes it intolerable to me.
I have some rules about reading his books to make them more enjoyable, chief amongst them is: If a paragraph starts with a description of food, ends with a description of food, and at a glance mentions food in the middle, skip the entire paragraph. I swear I've not read most of some pages because of this rule.
Do you hate Redwall
How much worse than hitler are you, on a scale of 1 to 10 hitlers
I've never read Redwall so I don't have much of an opinion on it.
I like Mouseguard? I understand that they are vaguely similar.
My payments will be painful for my master loans. But also thanks to Obama they are capped based on my income and survivable. Also I have 0 private loans, all are federal.
I have some rules about reading his books to make them more enjoyable, chief amongst them is: If a paragraph starts with a description of food, ends with a description of food, and at a glance mentions food in the middle, skip the entire paragraph. I swear I've not read most of some pages because of this rule.
Long pointless descriptions of food is a fantasy staple.
Like, seriously, this is a mainstay of Tolkien.
GRRM manages to bore me in a way Tolkien never did. Also I don't really care if its a staple or not. The way GRRM does it and the frequency with which he does it makes it intolerable to me.
being a staple is, if anything, a negative
Eh, not really. When you work within a genre you need to meet some genre expectations and betray some genre expectations. I just don't think the way that GRRM has elected to meet this genre expectation is well done. But there's nothing inherently wrong with meeting a genre expectation.
I understand, but I don't need to actually hear their pillowtalk to understand that. "Incest is creepy" is a cultural assumption.
Vivid descriptions about how X fucked Y during her period on her mother's altar doesn't accomplish more than a hint would.
same thing can be applied to pretty much every description written.
The this logical train's last stop is the tweet. Do you really want to find yourself there?
Get off now!
twitterature is a thing
I am pulling the whistle chain over and over. I am getting off this terrible ride before twitterature is a thing that I know about. Fuck you I didn't even hear what you said.
I understand, but I don't need to actually hear their pillowtalk to understand that. "Incest is creepy" is a cultural assumption.
Vivid descriptions about how X fucked Y during her period on her mother's altar doesn't accomplish more than a hint would.
same thing can be applied to pretty much every description written.
The this logical train's last stop is the tweet. Do you really want to find yourself there?
Get off now!
or the norse saga. Shit is so sparsely written it becomes disorienting.
it'll go like, a page describing the winter Gunnlaug Ormstunge spent at some dude's place and the people who were there and what happened and maybe half of one conversation they had that was worth noting, and then it'll go like "and then seven years passed"
nothing of note happened in those seven years so we'll spend one sentence describing their passing.
I understand, but I don't need to actually hear their pillowtalk to understand that. "Incest is creepy" is a cultural assumption.
Vivid descriptions about how X fucked Y during her period on her mother's altar doesn't accomplish more than a hint would.
same thing can be applied to pretty much every description written.
The this logical train's last stop is the tweet. Do you really want to find yourself there?
Get off now!
twitterature is a thing
I am pulling the whistle chain over and over. I am getting off this terrible ride before twitterature is a thing that I know about. Fuck you I didn't even hear what you said.
I have been, in a fit of incredibly guilty pleasure, watching season 7 of America's Got Talent.
90% of all dance routines are done to dubstep, because DAT DROP is a great time to break out the serious moves.
Also, America, Fuck Yeah. That show is the awesome kind of patriotic and you're a goddamned commie if you disagree.
Sadly, I have also watched way more of America's Got Talent this season than I should admit to, although I promise I never watched the show before this season, I just moved and only had basic cable until saturday!
Last episode I watched was super disappointing though, almost everybody messed up or was really disappointing. At the end they were all like, ONLY 4 WILL MAKE IT THROUGH and I was like, I'm pretty sure there were only 4 that didn't completely bomb or bore me to death.
so on saturday my fiancee and i wanted to go to this food truck that we've heard about that makes really good hot dogs
unfortunately the only way they update their location is twitter
neither of us have, or want twitter accounts
so it was like a mexican standoff to see who would make the twitter account
(we wound up calling her little brother who got on the tweets and twitters and told us where it was)
This seems like more work than just signing up. Twitter is awesome. You can take all those pages' news feeds you normally visit, and put them into a single Twitter feed. You never actually have to tweet.
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So I planned on power napping during lunch today. Then I get an email asking me to do something at 12:20.
I hate mondaysssssss
the thing is that Tolkien's prose was, in general, much more beautiful than GRRM's
Tolkien had a really tight grasp of the prose conventions for telling fables while also having a flair for rich description of the fantastical. I mean:
A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.
Fell meats. It is possible that there not a greater noun phrase in all of fantasy.
the thing is that Tolkien's prose was, in general, much more beautiful than GRRM's
Tolkien had a really tight grasp of the prose conventions for telling fables while also having a flair for rich description of the fantastical. I mean:
A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.
Fell meats. It is possible that there not a greater noun phrase in all of fantasy.
So you've pretty much convinced me that I desperately need to read those books again now that I'm not in Jr. High.
I understand, but I don't need to actually hear their pillowtalk to understand that. "Incest is creepy" is a cultural assumption.
Vivid descriptions about how X fucked Y during her period on her mother's altar doesn't accomplish more than a hint would.
same thing can be applied to pretty much every description written.
The this logical train's last stop is the tweet. Do you really want to find yourself there?
Get off now!
twitterature is a thing
I am pulling the whistle chain over and over. I am getting off this terrible ride before twitterature is a thing that I know about. Fuck you I didn't even hear what you said.
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This does not make it good.
being a staple is, if anything, a negative
I've never read Redwall so I don't have much of an opinion on it.
I like Mouseguard? I understand that they are vaguely similar.
exactly
The majority of people are bad writers, yes
thanks Obama
(no seriously, thanks bro)
my bookstep dj name is
GOOEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
The this logical train's last stop is the tweet. Do you really want to find yourself there?
Get off now!
this is the one we talked about or the houston one
i like it
i like it a lot
Eh, not really. When you work within a genre you need to meet some genre expectations and betray some genre expectations. I just don't think the way that GRRM has elected to meet this genre expectation is well done. But there's nothing inherently wrong with meeting a genre expectation.
The orcs were bad.
The good guys killed them.
The end.
twitterature is a thing
you are privy to insider knowledge
I have been, in a fit of incredibly guilty pleasure, watching season 7 of America's Got Talent.
90% of all dance routines are done to dubstep, because DAT DROP is a great time to break out the serious moves.
Also, America, Fuck Yeah. That show is the awesome kind of patriotic and you're a goddamned commie if you disagree.
I enjoyed that more than any part of the Trilogy.
you can be
surrealitycheckoutyourlocallibrary
Dat's racist.
Swamp Orcs 4 lyfe.
short TYR
because twitter fucking rules, and a good tweet is an amateur work of art in conserving meaning with maximum efficiency
behold:
http://favstar.fm/users/ActualPerson084
I am pulling the whistle chain over and over. I am getting off this terrible ride before twitterature is a thing that I know about. Fuck you I didn't even hear what you said.
Let me ooooooffffffff
or the norse saga. Shit is so sparsely written it becomes disorienting.
it'll go like, a page describing the winter Gunnlaug Ormstunge spent at some dude's place and the people who were there and what happened and maybe half of one conversation they had that was worth noting, and then it'll go like "and then seven years passed"
nothing of note happened in those seven years so we'll spend one sentence describing their passing.
It's too late! The disease is inside yoooouuuuuu
UR ONE RUDE DUDE
unfortunately the only way they update their location is twitter
neither of us have, or want twitter accounts
so it was like a mexican standoff to see who would make the twitter account
(we wound up calling her little brother who got on the tweets and twitters and told us where it was)
Sadly, I have also watched way more of America's Got Talent this season than I should admit to, although I promise I never watched the show before this season, I just moved and only had basic cable until saturday!
Last episode I watched was super disappointing though, almost everybody messed up or was really disappointing. At the end they were all like, ONLY 4 WILL MAKE IT THROUGH and I was like, I'm pretty sure there were only 4 that didn't completely bomb or bore me to death.
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Just make a dummy account silly!
Like the dummy facebook account we all have to signing up for free stuffs in games.
i could have gone with ANUS for ur ticker bro
i pulled that punch 4 u
(lets play day z)
This seems like more work than just signing up. Twitter is awesome. You can take all those pages' news feeds you normally visit, and put them into a single Twitter feed. You never actually have to tweet.
I hate mondaysssssss
Tolkien had a really tight grasp of the prose conventions for telling fables while also having a flair for rich description of the fantastical. I mean:
Fell meats. It is possible that there not a greater noun phrase in all of fantasy.
These are pretty great.
My favorite so far?
So you've pretty much convinced me that I desperately need to read those books again now that I'm not in Jr. High.
Because yeah, that shit is delicious.
it's either wolf ire as in "this earned her the ire of the wolf"
or wol fire as in "The great fire in 768 burned Wol-upon-Kahst to the ground"
This is more than 140 characters, Spool