Oh hey!

[theweaselking]

Our friend leighdb has been liveblogging her first, spoiler-free, trip through A Song Of Ice And Fire

And I'm terribly late to this - I've been waiting for it for MONTHS and then I went on vacation and missed it when it happened last week - but she's finally hit That Chapter. You know the one.

And her reaction is priceless.

Go! Read!

Comments

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

You should also see the video I posted to G+ today.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Sure Jaime is toast. Or is it a life for a hand?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read the books and haven't seen my own spoiler-laden discussions, I'm not going to fill you in here. To-date spoilers are only a Google away if you want 'em.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahah :) I remember my own reaction of hitting That Chapter. Remarkably much like hers.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Mine, too.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should read those sometime. Got lots of downtime at work.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You should at least give 'em a try. And then when you hit That Chapter (you'll know the one) you can post your reaction!

[drcuriosity]

Total literary ice cream headache.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I've read through all her posts.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You could check out her reread of The Wheel Of Time? (http://www.tor.com/features/series/wot-reread)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I am perplexed by the lot of you who read That Chapter and thought it would be a good idea to keep reading these fucked-up books.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

... do you OBJECT to books where shit does not always go well for the Protagonistas? Or where the identity of the members of the Protagonista movement is uncertain?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, not at all, but when that's shown to be the theme that the author keeps going back to because, hey, fuck you, that's why, then i'd rather read a book where all of the characters aren't either evil, stupid, or useless.

"No Country for Old Men" is an example of this technique being done right.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not all of Martin's characters are evil, stupid or useless. It's just that "being good" does not inherently mean "will win".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'm not opposed to bad guys winning. Heck, Richard III makes you root for him, and he's a total fucking asshole. Tyrion is the best character in the book, which made me want to see a whole lot more of him and a whole lot less of everyone else except Jon who has some potential. Everyone else... fuck `em. Drop `em in a well in chapter 2 and be done with it.