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Couple of other things on the agenda today; firstly, another step in my ongoing search for some good fantasy writing comes with the arrival of A Game of Thrones by George Martin. I'm pretty apprehensive about this, my last two bold steps in this adventure have landed me in nasty puddles. BattleAxe by Sara Douglas was just beyond awful, and The Black Company saga by Glen Cook wasn't a premium investment either. The latter did improve as it went along, but it never managed to climb above 5/10, and its initial poorness was almost enough to make me give up before Chapter Two. The characters only have nicknames, and the towns and cities are all nouns. Stereotypical american military-style slang filters heavily into Cook's dialogue, which is atrocious in an old-world fantasy setting. There was also a point where I put it down hopelessly after the following bit:
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"That means the thing was the nastiest, cunningest, cruelest, and craziest of the lot."
"Vampires," I muttered. "In this day."
Tom-Tom said, "Not strictly a vampire. This is the wereleopard, the man-leopard who walks on two legs by day and four by night."
I won't comment any further, I'm sure you can imagine my reaction upon reading this. Let's not dwell on these dark times; on to A Game of Thrones. Now I've heard good things about this book and series (A Song of Ice and Fire, I think it's called) but this time I have an extra ace in the hole - my esteemed colleague Grim happened to have the book in his house, so I set him the task of reading it and thus shielding me from making another regrettable purchase. His feedback was positive, so I went and ordered it[1]. I'm still somewhat cynical as the covers, names and story overview of the whole series are very thematically generic at first glance. Fingers crossed for excellent writing - I'll need something pacey and sharp to warm down from House of Leaves when I finish it.
Finally, here is a little perspective drawing that I've started on.
Doesn't look like much now, but I'm hoping to motivate myself to stick at it by posting it here.
Assuming that works, you'll see updates in later posts. Wish me luck.
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Let it be noted that if he's pulling the wool over my eyes and it turns out to be actually terrible, the consequences will be dire.
You should have seen
The curse that flew right by you
2 comments:
Don't worry, just make sure you lie down and drink plenty of fluids, and that STD will clear right up.
(Frankly, I'm not sure about the wisdom of your crane placement; I would be extremely hesitant in putting it anywhere it could be walked over, or - more distressingly - on.)
Moving along, GOOD LORD in regards to that passage you quoted. How you refrained yourself from transforming into the Hulk and flinging the wretched abomination into the stratosphere is beyond me. Still, fingers crossed on A Game of Thrones; this "Grim" fellow sounds quite the sage, so I'm sure it will be excellent.
And I have no idea what that drawing is supposed to be, so you'd darn well stick at it so I can find out!
Your writing style, although at first glance is quite captivating lacks little substance and is overly pedantic and very pretentious.
Maybe you should focus more on subject matter and less on playing the role of the stereotypical nonconformist art student who can only be described as post hipster.
That and you're gay LOL
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