Books

[bfactor]

How far in are you, fakelhys? I'm about 20% into Clash of Kings.

 

[rome8180]

560 pages or so in to Clash of Kings.

You don't remember her chapters, Chib? How dare you! She is BY FAR my favorite character right now with Tyrion the only person remotely close. But Tyrion I'm more fascinated by, while Arya I am actively rooting for.

Hierarcy of characters who have gotten their own chapters:

Arya


Tyrion


Jon
Bran
Eddard

Spoiler

not amymore, RIP

Daenerys
Catelyn
Theon
Sansa
Davos

 

[rome8180]

Sansa has the potential to move up. Not nearly so awful as before.

 

[ChibCU]

Davos' story gets interesting later on. Theon as well. Tyrion's stay great.

Always tried rushing through Daenerys' chapters. I dislike her.

Jon's probably my favorite, in part because I am interested by the events in his chapters more so than other characters.

 

[bfactor]

Theon's introductory chapter made it seem like his future chapters would be really interesting. Sansa's will be interesting just because of her unique place among all of the conflicts.

 

[ChibCU]

Basically by the end of the fifth book it is a giant clusterf***. So many unresolved conflicts, plethora of characters, and countless question marks. I don't know how he will cram all of it into two books.

 

[rome8180]

Yeah, I keep catching myself wondering why he felt the need to introduce quite so many different parties trying to claim the throne. The Lannisters, Renly, Stannis, Daenerys, the Starks, the Greyjoys.

 

[bfactor]

In the early parts of CoK I keep reading "your grace" at seemingly random times and thinking "when the fuck did that happen?"

 

[DukeNukem05]

Yeah, I keep catching myself wondering why he felt the need to introduce quite so many different parties trying to claim the throne. The Lannisters, Renly, Stannis, Daenerys, the Starks, the Greyjoys.

It will become apparent. Might take a few thousand pages.

 

[rome8180]

In the early parts of CoK I keep reading "your grace" at seemingly random times and thinking "when the fuck did that happen?"

I often refer to my CoK as "your grace" as well.

 

[bfactor]

I'm stuck with "needle", it seems. :(

 

[rome8180]

Do you really think it's a coincidence that his first two books can be abbreviated GoT CoK?

 

[bfactor]

GoT Cok? SOS!

 

[bfactor]

I cracked the code. Renly wins.

 

[rome8180]

Stephen King's new book sounds amazing. It's called Doctor Sleep and it's a sort of sequel to The Shining. Here's the synopsis:


On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

 

[aiw]

 

[rome8180]

Anyone know a good book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Nothing too pro-Israel.

 

[JohaadDBC]

Anyone know a good book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Nothing too pro-Israel.

Yeah I'd be curious about that as well. It's an extremely interesting topic.

Also, I read Purvez Musharraf's book when it came out a few years ago. Nothing amazing, but interesting to get an idea of the perspective of another side.

 

[bfactor]

Kind of related, but if you've never read The First Crusade: A New History by Thomas Asbridge, it's extremely interesting. It's basically the perfect intersection of interests for someone who is curious about the historic conflict between Christianity and Islam and enjoys Game of Thrones.

 

[torontoduke]

The Beggar's Garden, by Michael Christie - a collection of short stories set in downtown Vancouver. Many of the stories deal with characters with severe mental illness.