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Welcome JJ

still have the feeling I know you -_-'

Lols xD

Hello J.J. You're very welcome

One question, because you didn't answered it in your welcomespost.. Which book character do you want to marry?

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Welcome J.J.!

Hé, do study the same in the same place, maybe we should hang out sometime!

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De ananas is wel duur!

I believe you already do

Welcome here,

At this moment I don't have any questions for you, so....


Enjoy your time on amaroth

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Going faster than the speed of light isn't possible. That would mean you could go to a place in time. And at that time you wouldn´t be born, but still would be at that place.

Which book character... Dang, indeed, seems I skipped that part in my introduction...
Well... I guess I can skip the male ones. I'll skip the nasty ones, and the bitchy ones as well, and the evil ones. Oh, and the weird, the (really) ugly, the stupid, the naive, the humorless, the giggling, the stubborn, the non-human.
...I suppose that leaves Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Eowyn and Margaery Tyrell. I just had to made that up though, so I guess I don't really want to marry any book characters. Sorry
I'll update as soon as I think of one.

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haha xD Good choices though

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Valar Morghulis.

aSolaF?

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Yeah well, someone uses the Imp for an avatar... I can't stay behind now, can I?

PS. He never mentioned aSoIaF before?
A Song of Ice and Fire is the best running fantasy series. Surely you must know that.

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I know! Did read everything in now time xD But didn't know the short term xD

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ASoIaF is my favorite series with a reason Love how there's no black or white in it, only grey of various shades. It's not the best fantasy series out there because it lacks actual fantasy (there's the White Walkers, dragons and magic gets mentioned too, but compared to the avarage fantasy book that's real darn little) but it sure is the best in its niche. And I happen to love that niche
It could use some more sympathetic female characters, though. Something to balance out that ever-present urge to stab Cersei in the eye, y'know.

This topic is now the aSoIaF topic

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Lol. But keep it spoiler free, please... Well, for me, no aDwD spoilers at least until I'm done reading aDwD.
I know... reading those "Cersei"-chapters, I was ready to strangle her at any time, and I didn't lke Catelyn even before she became... well, who she became. Sansa's naive, Arya's much to stubborn... Brienne's OK though. A pity she's so manly and hideous.
As for the quality of the books, I like its originality, though one is prone to drown in the details if one doesn't skip about ten names a chapter (including places, characters, ships...). However, I guess that's only normal for fantsy books. I still think it's the best running fantasy series (lack of fantasy clichés is not an argument, Ulysses!!!) but I lack the reading experience to support that statement, so... Bugger that.
House Tully! Hope they survive

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Lack of fantasy cliché is not an argument. Lack of fantasy overall is The world of aSoIaF is gritty and realistic, but when it gets down to the core you can hardly call it original. It's the myriad of well-written characters that make the series great, along with good writing and dramatic turns of events. The plot itself is rather weak (everyone is faffing about while ignoring the actual threat and plot) and the only truly original bits are the extraordinary length of the seasons and something I'm not going to spoil.
After DwD, Martin's original plot starts to get clear. He originally intended the series to be a trilogy and we're at the end of the second book now, plotwise. The reason we're at 5 books now instead of 2 is that he got sidetracked on the details and the Game of Thrones and now he needs 2 more books to wrap up everything instead of 1.

Martin spends a lot of time worldbuilding, and we're basically doing the same thing with Amaroth. His level of historic and political detail is something I personally aim for. But there's more to it than just characters, history and politics and that's something Martin is neglecting.

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