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Govtcheez

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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #150 on: July 11, 2011, 08:38:48 PM »
Finished Mockingjay just in time for Dance with Dragons to come out!

(Collins should have stopped after the first book)
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #151 on: July 11, 2011, 08:39:56 PM »
Why do you say that? 
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #152 on: July 11, 2011, 08:42:12 PM »
The second two books were nowhere near as good as the first and I thought the ending was very unsatisfying.  They should have just left it at the end of the first book with an unclear picture of what was going to happen.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #153 on: July 11, 2011, 08:44:54 PM »
The thing that bothers me the most about the third book is it's literally just [spoiler] mountains of shit happening to Katniss and then BAM she lived happily ever after[/spoiler]

edit: didn't we used to have spoiler tags
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #154 on: July 12, 2011, 08:47:13 AM »
I was definitely more hooked in the first book than the last two.  But I still had a lot of fun with the last two.  I don't think I would have been very happy with just stopping after the first one.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #155 on: July 12, 2011, 02:44:00 PM »
Holy crap, that releases today!

*races off to bookstore*
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #156 on: July 12, 2011, 02:47:29 PM »
Yeah, I even got a chance to start it at breakfast this morning :)

Thanks, Whispernet!
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #157 on: July 14, 2011, 10:42:15 AM »
I'm reading the bible.

And Noddy.

It's important to have a balanced literary diet.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #158 on: July 21, 2011, 10:35:34 PM »
finished GoT last week. Reading the second one now and still hooked.

Is anyone watching the series, I watched the first 6 or 7 episodes and so far I don't like it much.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #159 on: July 22, 2011, 06:17:32 AM »
I watched it and thought it was great - what don't you like about it?
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #160 on: July 22, 2011, 10:47:23 PM »
It follows the book pretty well, but it throws in things that are not in the book - like, for example - [spoiler alert] the relationship between renly and the knight of flowers (i forget his name), or the role the red headed whore has that Theon bangs, and then Theon's attitude toward the starks (now that I'm about 200 pages into CoK I know why) and there are other examples too[/spoiler alert]

I haven't got to the battle scenes yet, but I was hoping for a production a la LoTR - not even close.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #161 on: July 23, 2011, 08:47:11 AM »
Yeah the battle is pretty lame in the show and I honestly don't remember the red headed whore at all in the books.  Theon's attitude is, I think, on display a lot more in the show because the first book hardly focuses on him at all

Renly and Loras is strongly hinted at in the books, but nothing that blatant because none of the chapter are written from either of their POV (same thing with Theon)

I imagine HBO will pick up the battle sequences in the next couple seasons because 1) there's a lot more fighting and 2) the show was pretty successful so now maybe they'll drop some more coin.
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #162 on: July 23, 2011, 05:58:41 PM »
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Renly and Loras is strongly hinted at in the books
I didn't get that at all in GoT, but maybe that changes in CoK
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I imagine HBO will pick up the battle sequences in the next couple seasons because 1) there's a lot more fighting and 2) the show was pretty successful so now maybe they'll drop some more coin.

I really hope so. even the joust tourney looked cheesy....

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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #163 on: July 23, 2011, 08:29:25 PM »
The joust tourney was pretty funny.  It didn't look like something that was all elaborate and cost tons to put together.  It was like King Robert called his knight buddies and said "hey come on over let's joust in my backyard"
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Re: What is ES reading?
« Reply #164 on: July 25, 2011, 08:53:30 AM »
Just started Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol.  Decent so far. 
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