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Post by Gifthorse on May 9, 2013 12:25:29 GMT -5
My latest guilty pleasures: I started watching Game of Thrones when it first began, then stopped, but once I learned there were baby dragons I just had to catch up with the series again. (Thank goodness for HBOGo). Now I'm so completely addicted I'm reading the books as well. Tyrion is my favorite character...if you don't count the baby dragons, of course.  My other huge time-waster is the MMO: Lord of the Rings Online aka LOTRO. I originally started playing so I could get Quinn involved, but now my dh and I are both addicted. Oops. I'm on the Imladris server in case any Factoids want to meet me there. It's free-to-play....hint hint! www.lotro.com/ |
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Post by raybar on May 9, 2013 12:45:22 GMT -5
Just had a chat with a customer about Games of Thrones and HBOGo and the books.
Tyrion, despite has drinking and whoring, seems to be the only honorable member of the whole family. A favorite of mint, too, along with Arya of course. Who wouldn't love a tough little girl character?
Where are you in the books
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Post by Gifthorse on May 9, 2013 15:21:49 GMT -5
Just had a chat with a customer about Games of Thrones and HBOGo and the books. Tyrion, despite has drinking and whoring, seems to be the only honorable member of the whole family. A favorite of mint, too, along with Arya of course. Who wouldn't love a tough little girl character? Where are you in the books Yes, I agree, Arya is a great character as well.  I'm a little more than half-way through Clash of the Kings, which is the second book in the series. Joffry and his entourage just got attacked in the city by the mob, Theon is taking his father's men to Winterfell, Jon Snow has arrived at Craster's Keep and Arya chose her '2nd man' via Jaqen H'ghar. Oh and Daenerys is in Qarth, where everyone lies & wants her dragons. "It is known." |
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Post by pat on May 9, 2013 18:26:12 GMT -5
Hummmmm...let me think.....dark chocolate .....yup, that's one of my little guilty pleasures.. ;D
Guess I'd better watch Game of Thrones.
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Post by faskew on May 10, 2013 7:28:20 GMT -5
Two things to keep in mind about the GoT.
(1) Martin still hasn't finished the books yet. He keeps more and more new characters and subplots, which means splitting what he intended for one book into two or three. But he's WAY behind and the TV series may finish before the final book is done.
(2) Year 1 and Book 1 are fairly close. Year 2 and Book 2 begin to diverge. Year 3 and Book 3 widens the gap. Who knows about the future, but it's very likely that Y4 and B4 will be even further apart. Which is OK, because the books become blotted with too many secondary and tertiary characters who take up valuable time when what we really want to know is what's happening with the primary characters. The TV show has already "compressed" some characters (squished 2-3 Book characters into 1 TV character). And some plot points have been clarified and simplified. All good. (Wired news runs a feature every Tuesday where they compare show and book and tell us exactly what the differences are.)
The point being that the further you get into it, the more you can treat the GoT show and the books as two separate works that just happen to resemble each other in some aspects. Double the fun. 8->
Fred Askew
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Post by raybar on May 10, 2013 10:17:49 GMT -5
He keeps more and more new characters and subplots ... the books become blotted with too many secondary and tertiary characters who take up valuable time when what we really want to know is what's happening with the primary characters. Fred Askew For example, if someone is traveling, do we really need to know every detail of what they do every day, what they eat at every meal, where they sleep every night, who they meet along the way, and so on, when the only thing of lasting importance to the story is that they arrive? (I suppose I should say "the only thing that SEEMS TO BE of lasting importance" because a character could return to the story, or some detail could turn out to be significant later.) Still, I like these novels. But I do find that I skim through parts of them. |
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Post by Gifthorse on May 10, 2013 12:15:35 GMT -5
Yes I must agree that he's a bit detail-crazed, but so far it hasn't bugged me too much. Then again, I'm only on the second book. Sounds like he may have lost his direction in the last book or two, from what you've mentioned. Maybe the pressure of writing faster than a TV show is being made psyched him out a bit.
My only complaint so far is the author seems to have fixations with certain forms of graphic violence. I could have gone my entire life without reading about or seeing an evisceration. Ugh.
Oh and also: I'd like to see more dragons please! ;D
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Post by raybar on May 10, 2013 13:58:36 GMT -5
"Game of Thrones" is not his first go-round in Hollywood, so Mr. Martin is well acquainted with demands of television production. Besides, he is not credited with screen writing for many (if any - haven't checked) of the episodes, although he is involved in the production in some way. www.imdb.com/name/nm0552333/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_4Lost direction - possibly. Or maybe the whole project just got away from him. Or maybe he's just tired of writing the same story, i.e., lost interest. Just guessing/wondering here as I have no connection with him. But (1) dear sweet Miss Molly knows Bernadette Whats-her-name, the GoT production manager, from some show they were both on a few years ago, and (2) one of the writers of GoT goes to the same hairdresser Molly and I use, and (3) Bernadette was (is? - been a while) married to a dolly grip I worked with on a couple shows. "It's a small world after all, it's a ..." No, wait a minute, that's from Disneyland where I've never worked. But Molly worked once at Disney Orlando on a Shields & Yarnell Special (or something - been a while). |
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Post by tricia on May 10, 2013 22:26:20 GMT -5
I read all three books of "Shades of Grey" if that counts... |
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Post by joan on May 13, 2013 9:31:47 GMT -5
Tricia, that's a guilty pleasure, but as for Game of Thrones, nothing for me to feel guilty about, it's my great pleasure. Getting sad only three episodes left! After that, I like the Borgias, my pleasure, & I don't feel guilty about it either.
I have no interest in reading the GofT books. From the first episode, I fell for the Khaleesi & I've paired her in my mind with Jon Snow from the beginning. They are the most kingly & queenly to me. Although............Jaime is finally starting to grow on me, if I can get past the incest thingy. & I love the little guy of course.
Those 3 dragons are so attached to mother. I just love the whole thing. I'm always happy on Sunday afternoons with anticipation.
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Post by raybar on May 13, 2013 13:42:37 GMT -5
... From the first episode, I fell for the Khaleesi & I've paired her in my mind with Jon Snow from the beginning. They are the most kingly & queenly to me. Although............Jaime is finally starting to grow on me ... Well that's the question, isn't it. Who will win the game and sit on the Iron Throne at the end of the story? Assuming, of course, that the Iron Throne survives the wars, the long winter, the "white walkers," the "wildlings," the dragons ... and that "The Realm" is eventually reunited under a single ruler. As I read the books I tried to imagine who might be "the one" (a term not used in GoT), or the two if it's to be a king and queen. But at the end of Book 5 there remain several contenders and the various story lines have still not begun to come together in any perceivable manner. Plus, given Martin's tendency to kill off important characters, starting with King Robert and Ned Stark, there's no telling who might live or die in the next chapter. Plenty of drama and suspense yet to come. |
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Post by faskew on May 14, 2013 12:56:19 GMT -5
I vote for Tyrion Lannister as king of Westeros. He is not only a good person, but he's smarter than Rob Stark and the Khaleesi put together. Of course, if the White Walkers come south, the show will become "The Walking Dead - Dark Ages". 8-D
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2013 20:37:32 GMT -5
Well, my guity pleasure is reading true crime books and also crime novels such as the latest on my list have been those by Tess Gerritsen who wrote the novels that the "Rizzoli and Isles" series is based on. Gruesome stuff. I also read stuff about Ted Bundy and also Diane Downs who shot her kids so that she could be with her lover who "didn't want to be a daddy". I don't know, maybe this means I'm somewhat weird. But then I also have collected and read most of the "Tales from Grace Chapel Inn" series put out by Guideposts. I love that series of books.
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Post by joan on May 20, 2013 9:55:23 GMT -5
Just finished Tess Gerritsen's last book Last to Die & enjoyed it very much. I'm not a fan of the TV show, however. I really liked this book, as I usually can guess the ending & I couldn't here. Would have been very disappointed if I did!
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2013 16:23:42 GMT -5
Just finished Tess Gerritsen's last book Last to Die & enjoyed it very much. I'm not a fan of the TV show, however. I really liked this book, as I usually can guess the ending & I couldn't here. Would have been very disappointed if I did! Oh, my gosh, I didn't know there was one more Rizzoli and isles book that I havn't read yet. Thanks. I agree about the TV series. My thought is that they just don't take women police enforcement folks serioulsy. They made it more of a light comedy. Idiots. Anyway thanks for the heads up. I have two non-Rizooli & Isles book which I'm having a problem getting into. |
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Post by faskew on May 21, 2013 6:57:13 GMT -5
Lily - I too am a mystery fan. I've never read any of the Rizzoli and isles books (although I plan to now) but I did read the first 4-5 books that the "Bones" TV series is based on. Those books and the TV show are basically 98% different from each other. I don't know why they even bothered to pay the author for using her character. 8->
Speaking of true crime (and comedy), have you seen the movie "Bernie"? It's a warped tale of a Texas murder. Directed by Austin director Richard Linkletter. It was filmed in the town where the murder actually happened and he used many local people as extras (some of them were witnesses at the trial). So it's a sort of semi-documentary make-fun-of-the-East-Texas-hicks (but in a nice way) murder comedy.
(Texas has 5 major geographical "regions". East Texas is pretty much like the Deep South - lots of trees, old cotton plantations, and all that Southern Gothic type stuff.)
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Post by pat on May 21, 2013 7:13:57 GMT -5
Lily - I too am a mystery fan. I've never read any of the Rizzoli and isles books (although I plan to now) but I did read the first 4-5 books that the "Bones" TV series is based on. Those books and the TV show are basically 98% different from each other. I don't know why they even bothered to pay the author for using her character. 8-> Speaking of true crime (and comedy), have you seen the movie "Bernie"? It's a warped tale of a Texas murder. Directed by Austin director Richard Linkletter. It was filmed in the town where the murder actually happened and he used many local people as extras (some of them were witnesses at the trial). So it's a sort of semi-documentary make-fun-of-the-East-Texas-hicks (but in a nice way) murder comedy. (Texas has 5 major geographical "regions". East Texas is pretty much like the Deep South - lots of trees, old cotton plantations, and all that Southern Gothic type stuff.) Have that movie in my queue at Netflix. Haven't watched it yet. Will have to do so. |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2013 16:13:26 GMT -5
Lily - I too am a mystery fan. I've never read any of the Rizzoli and isles books (although I plan to now) but I did read the first 4-5 books that the "Bones" TV series is based on. Those books and the TV show are basically 98% different from each other. I don't know why they even bothered to pay the author for using her character. 8-> Speaking of true crime (and comedy), have you seen the movie "Bernie"? It's a warped tale of a Texas murder. Directed by Austin director Richard Linkletter. It was filmed in the town where the murder actually happened and he used many local people as extras (some of them were witnesses at the trial). So it's a sort of semi-documentary make-fun-of-the-East-Texas-hicks (but in a nice way) murder comedy. (Texas has 5 major geographical "regions". East Texas is pretty much like the Deep South - lots of trees, old cotton plantations, and all that Southern Gothic type stuff.) Have that movie in my queue at Netflix. Haven't watched it yet. Will have to do so. Odd to think of a "murder comedy", but I think I get what you mean, Pat. And I reinstated my Netflix account, but have not been using it. I have only streaming. I'll have to remind myself to start using it more. Oh, gosh, I don't know if this post is going to turn out the way think I hope it will. |
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Post by greenknight on Jun 6, 2013 15:30:05 GMT -5
Faith, Books, Movies, internet & Second life.
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Post by pat on Jun 6, 2013 19:05:22 GMT -5
Charles, is this you???
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Post by greenknight on Jun 6, 2013 19:13:30 GMT -5
yes charles would be me but im charles plus right now after 3 hour root canal and now on pain killer lol
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Post by pat on Jun 6, 2013 19:24:56 GMT -5
You poor man....hopefully the pain killers are keeping you comfortable. Nice to see you here...glad you found us.
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Post by greenknight on Jun 6, 2013 19:38:16 GMT -5
thanks yes the pills are working for the most part, the biggest pain was the bill lol |
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