Just downloaded it on my iPad, just as I am about to board a plane to my hols. Life can be good at times. :cool:
In befo da lock.
No spoilers please.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:44:59 PM
No spoilers please.
Fuck you. You guys spoiled* the hell out of the tv show. I should plaster languish in spoilers.
*I actually dont mind.
The first edition is it all hardcover or can i get a cheap paperback too?
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:45:55 PM
The first edition is it all hardcover or can i get a cheap paperback too?
Only hardcover.
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 12, 2011, 12:45:47 PM
Fuck you. You guys spoiled* the hell out of the tv show.
Jaime Lannister kills Dumbledore.
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 12, 2011, 12:45:47 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:44:59 PM
No spoilers please.
Fuck you. You guys spoiled* the hell out of the tv show. I should plaster languish in spoilers.
*I actually dont mind.
But the TV show sucked!
The only good thing about the show was the casting.
All the scenes looked to me as cropped and short changed.
The action was non-existant and we didn't get to see even one single battle.
And they missed the scale completely.
That tourney was ridicuolus.
Even that movie, Willow, had larger armies on the move.
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2011, 12:47:10 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:45:55 PM
The first edition is it all hardcover or can i get a cheap paperback too?
Only hardcover.
Ah fuck. Now I have to wait for a year for the paperback copy.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:49:23 PM
Even that movie, Willow, had larger armies on the move.
Willow had a much larger budget...and those were 1988 dollars.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:50:11 PM
Ah fuck. Now I have to wait for a year for the paperback copy.
An electronic copy is available also. But yeah you are going to be waiting a long time if you just must have a paperback.
Ramsay Bolton: All your Winterfell are belong to us!
Theon Greyjoy: But you are the Reek! Me gives money, you bring sellswords! Me gives Palla kennel girl!
Ramsay Bolton: She smell dogshit! Me wants Kyra bedwarmer!
Theon Greyjoy: You mad! Me hangs y....
WHAAMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Theon Greyjoy: Uh, what the happen, me coughing blood......Gates the close!
Ramsay Bolton: Two late! Me burn everything!
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2011, 12:51:20 PM
Willow had a much larger budget...and those were 1988 dollars.
Probably why they could afford so many dwarfs, while Game of Thrones only got the one. :hmm:
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2011, 12:52:55 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:50:11 PM
Ah fuck. Now I have to wait for a year for the paperback copy.
An electronic copy is available also. But yeah you are going to be waiting a long time if you just must have a paperback.
I got all the books in paperback.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 12, 2011, 01:20:24 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2011, 12:51:20 PM
Willow had a much larger budget...and those were 1988 dollars.
Probably why they could afford so many dwarfs, while Game of Thrones only got the one. :hmm:
Only wisdom comes out of you moist.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 01:23:44 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 12, 2011, 12:52:55 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 12:50:11 PM
Ah fuck. Now I have to wait for a year for the paperback copy.
An electronic copy is available also. But yeah you are going to be waiting a long time if you just must have a paperback.
I got all the books in paperback.
How does that stop you from getting the hardcover?
I have it. Will see whether I have too much imagination or whether Berkut lacks it.
I read the first few chapters on the plane and at least based on that, GRRM got his magic back.
But then again, Tyrion, Danny and Jon have always been my favourite PoVs.
Quote from: Martinus on July 12, 2011, 01:44:33 PM
I read the first few chapters on the plane and at least based on that, GRRM got his magic back.
But then again, Tyrion, Danny and Jon have always been my favourite PoVs.
Good to hear. Now I must abandon all Game of Thrones threads for fear of spoilers as more people start reading.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 12, 2011, 01:45:25 PM
Quote from: Martinus on July 12, 2011, 01:44:33 PM
I read the first few chapters on the plane and at least based on that, GRRM got his magic back.
But then again, Tyrion, Danny and Jon have always been my favourite PoVs.
Good to hear. Now I must abandon all Game of Thrones threads for fear of spoilers as more people start reading.
He dies!
She dies, too. You know. Her. That one girl.
I watched Willow last night.
It is floating around the net isn't it... :shifty:
Quote from: Habbaku on July 12, 2011, 01:47:24 PM
She dies, too. You know. Her. That one girl.
But does she see?
Quote from: PRC on July 12, 2011, 01:47:28 PM
I watched Willow last night.
Christ, what a pukefest.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 12, 2011, 09:23:31 PM
Quote from: PRC on July 12, 2011, 01:47:28 PM
I watched Willow last night.
Christ, what a pukefest.
I'm glad that Peter Jackson didn't make Lord of the Rings with a cast of midgets.
Willow was a great movie.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:50:12 PM
Willow was a great movie.
I"m sorry, to break it to you Siege, but it wasn't. Val Kilmer's character was fun but everyone else pretty much sucked.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 12, 2011, 09:51:51 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:50:12 PM
Willow was a great movie.
I"m sorry, to break it to you Siege, but it wasn't. Val Kilmer's character was fun but everyone else pretty much sucked.
What else we had up to 1988?
Conan?
I'm afraid LOTR came way too late for me to impress me in the way young people are impressionable.
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:53:51 PM
What else we had up to 1988?
Conan?
I'm afraid LOTR came way too late for me to impress me in the way young people are impressionable.
Most fantasy films (and medieval films from the 1980's and 1990's suck). The problem is they are so dingy looking. It's always overcast and everything looks washed out. I think to many were filmed in Britain or something.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 12, 2011, 10:28:56 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:53:51 PM
What else we had up to 1988?
Conan?
I'm afraid LOTR came way too late for me to impress me in the way young people are impressionable.
Most fantasy films (and medieval films from the 1980's and 1990's suck). The problem is they are so dingy looking. It's always overcast and everything looks washed out. I think to many were filmed in Britain or something.
And nowadays they're just CGI-cartoons ala "Roger Rabbit".
Also, like Siege said, they're not really impressive. Lord of the Rings was ok...but like many fantasy movies today, it just feels like they try to hard to be impressive, and it ends up being over-fantastical noise.
Willow was good in it's day, despite George Lucas trying to give midgets a job after being Ewoks.
I prefer the modern ones to be honest. It's hard to have a lighthearted adventure when everything is grey.
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 12, 2011, 11:01:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 12, 2011, 10:28:56 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:53:51 PM
What else we had up to 1988?
Conan?
I'm afraid LOTR came way too late for me to impress me in the way young people are impressionable.
Most fantasy films (and medieval films from the 1980's and 1990's suck). The problem is they are so dingy looking. It's always overcast and everything looks washed out. I think to many were filmed in Britain or something.
And nowadays they're just CGI-cartoons ala "Roger Rabbit".
Please stop. Roger Rabbit wasn't CGI so why associate it with it?
One Realm! One God! One King! Stannis! Stannis!
:pope:
-minor spoilers-
on page 382 of the daenerys, jon, tyrion show. enjoying it thus far, aside from the overwhelming preference to the characters i've least interest in. post-blackwater tyrion is so emo. i like quentyn, and asha is badass as always. i'm anxiously awaiting reek's transformation into theon. the young griff reveal seemed very forced, ya think martin envisioned that since the beginning or bs'ed his way into it?
Quote from: The Brain on July 13, 2011, 03:01:34 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on July 12, 2011, 11:01:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 12, 2011, 10:28:56 PM
Quote from: Siege on July 12, 2011, 09:53:51 PM
What else we had up to 1988?
Conan?
I'm afraid LOTR came way too late for me to impress me in the way young people are impressionable.
Most fantasy films (and medieval films from the 1980's and 1990's suck). The problem is they are so dingy looking. It's always overcast and everything looks washed out. I think to many were filmed in Britain or something.
And nowadays they're just CGI-cartoons ala "Roger Rabbit".
Please stop. Roger Rabbit wasn't CGI so why associate it with it?
I am thinking more in the spirit of extensive interaction of real-life actors with obvious fakes. Roger Rabbit is merely the a representation of that idea.
Roger Rabbit itself as a film, I think was quite good. And its case, that dichotomy was intentional, and appropriate.
In a film like, say, the last Indiana Jones, it was a clusterfuck.
Only like 50 pages in, but enjoying it so far.
I remember how dull Crows felt because I wanted to hear what was happening to Jon, Bran, Arya and Dany...
(I haven't actually seen an Arya POV chapter yet, but I assume it's coming)
That fucker Johan opened up a spoilerrific thread in P'dox OT without any kind of labelling whatsoever. The bastard! :mad: :nerdrage:
Quote from: The Larch on July 14, 2011, 05:37:11 AM
That fucker Johan opened up a spoilerrific thread in P'dox OT without any kind of labelling whatsoever. The bastard! :mad: :nerdrage:
Don't go there. Paradox is so 2001.
And I paid for the danm book.
30 bucks.
Plus I a new edition of Guns, Germs and Steel. The best book evah written.
I had a Borders coupon for ~50% off the hardcover if I preordered, but I didn't :(
I would get the book now, but Ghost Story comes out in about a week, and the Dresden Files takes precedence over SoIAF now. Especially since I last read the books in 2009.
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on July 14, 2011, 09:26:25 AM
I had a Borders coupon for ~50% off the hardcover if I preordered, but I didn't :(
I would get the book now, but Ghost Story comes out in about a week, and the Dresden Files takes precedence over SoIAF now. Especially since I last read the books in 2009.
You tell me. I've started reading the Wheel of Time. That was a mistake. Especially since the french traduction doubles each book. I'm looking at buying 22 other books. I have 6 so far. Damn it.
I got a 30% discount from B&N and got it for a little less than $20.00. Pretty good for a big hard back doorstop like ADWD.
Went to Borders at the request of my niece, and it was on sale for 30% off, so I got it.
Still $25. Thanks for making me feel less good about it Valmy <_<