its kinda slow going at first but it really picks up ~200 pages in and its worth it even if youve already seen the tv show
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
& its not exactly a "hard read" either, you could finish it over an intense weekend
hmmmm
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i need a good page-turner
good thing i live two blocks from a used book store
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
DO IT
― Dreaded Burrito Gang (DJP), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
thing is, yer gonna wanna read the second book as soon as the first season of the tv show is over, so you'd better read the first book now so you don't miss anything small..
also, in the book during the jousting scene (from sansa's POV) Sir Hugh is just "some knight from the vale." and his death is less obviously diabolical.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't strike me as diabolical, but I'm guessing it's cuz the hand went asking questions?
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
i think u mean ser hugh
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Viserys Targaryen is growing on me a bit.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Monday, 9 May 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished book 1 on sunday...O_O
Found that reading along with the tv show sped me up, because I had a picture of everything, characters etc
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
HODOR
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like to claim credit for this one, but actually my girlfriend noticed it(she's a fanatic about the books). If you look at the credits, particularly the animals engraved on the bands around the sun, you'll see that they tell the story of Robert Baratheon's war against the Mad King in Heraldic form... It's a nice geeky touch.
― Stone Monkey, Monday, 9 May 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
man I think reading might just be worth it to clarify things in the backstory. It took the HBO guide to figure out ~why~ the mad king killed the Starks and why Jaime Lannister wasn't really respected for icing the guy.
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
jaime is outright loathed and mocked for killing aerys iirc.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
the books are a little bit more expository but not much--you dont quite get the whole story of the uprising until midway through and even then its partial and in pieces
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah they haven't played that up but every man's hand is against Jaime now, because Mad King or no Mad King, Jaime is an oathbreaker.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Monday, 9 May 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Jaime's entire fame rests on the fact that he killed his king while he was a sworn member of that king's personal bodyguard. The king in question might have been mad, but that sort of thing is not going to give you a good name with anyone who hears about it. Anything else he does in the future is going to have to be pretty special if he's going to live that down.
― Stone Monkey, Monday, 9 May 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. i mean it took me until today to figure out that there WAS a king's guard, and that he was part of it (and why he wore that special armor). normally i'm pretty good about piecing together backstory, but the pace has been pretty quick and it's hard to keep up
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
read da books dog. you can always skim the parts you've seen if you get bored.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
evan you wont regret reading the books
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
going to the store right now
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
I dont think u should read the book gbx
― Aerosol, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
i do! im canceling ur vote aerosol
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
All those pages? Come on man , just think this through
― Aerosol, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
not going to read the books now because I like watching the TV show and having no idea what's coming.
I thought the way the king asked the lannister dude how he killed the mad king was pretty telling about the disdain that's felt towards him.
― Gukbe, Monday, 9 May 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
books are just gay tv programmes
― my other username is a finest (cozen), Monday, 9 May 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
reading the books has made me even more psyched on watching the tv show
also cozen otm
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
thx to cozen bye
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Monday, 9 May 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
~btw~
this show has totally made me go back and pick up where i left off amidst book 4
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
when I first started in with the books I was bored with the endless description of the armor but then i got really into it. i think seeing the "Arms and Armor of the Habsburg Empire" traveling exhibit around the same time raised my interest.
also, the sumptuous meals described made very hungry
― brownie, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
mark my words gbx, you'll catch yourself saying HODOR for no reason when you're alone
― brownie, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
truthbomb
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
For all your ASOIAF recipe needshttp://innatthecrossroads.wordpress.com/
― Number None, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― brownie, Monday, 9 May 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
HA!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
BTW about to watch this weeks episode - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
week's
I want max to send me the screeners RIGH NOW
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
great ep, tho i thought the scene between dany's blonde pervy brother and the concubine chick went on for too long and was really weird. tho i guess they need these expositional scenes to fill in backstory stuff.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
You're right, I got a very draggy feeling with that scene too.
― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
thought last week was better, a whole lot of exposition-dumping this week. About ready to stop meeting new characters and start seeing 'em get into action of some kind (as in the last couple of minutes.)
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man that jousting scene was brutal, y'all are bloodthirsty folk. Remind me never to get on your bad sides.
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol loving "Why Do They Call You Littlefinger" Arya. Ned Stark is kinda dumb though! Is this the first time we've seen his right-hand man in a speaking capacity?
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
Last scene with Lady Cat was some righteousness though.
― NoShoutsNoCalls (Leee), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man that jousting scene was brutal, y'all are bloodthirsty folk.
Brutal but awsome!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda couldn't figure out what happened -- was that splinter in the guy's throat from the lance itself, or did it happen when he was falling off the horse?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
ie: is this a dangerous sport that can lead to your death or is the mountain just a particularly violent and disturbed fighter (as is indicated by Littlefinger's story to Sansa)? Also, why did Littlefinger tell Sansa that story? Was he trying to freak her out?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
is this a dangerous sport that can lead to your death or is the mountain just a particularly violent and disturbed fighter (as is indicated by Littlefinger's story to Sansa)?
both?
Also, why did Littlefinger tell Sansa that story? Was he trying to freak her out?
to warn her about the cleganes, i think, both the mountain and the hound? in the book the hound tells her the story himself
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link