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[Alan]

Maybe if you donate to his patreon it'll help.



Yes he has a fucking patreon.

[Drarok]

Jesus christ, and it's not like it's just a dollar a month, either! https://www.patreon.com/grrm

Shameless. It's not like he even needs the money, just pure greed. Do some work if you want money, you bastard!

[Animalmother]

The Edwin apparently makes about $25 million per year!

[Sly Boots]

I'm definitely interested in seeing how Martin ends his series (hopefully with significant differences to the show), but I'm not exactly on the edge of my seat with anticipation.

[Raid]

I suspect I probably would have picked one of the books up by now had the TV series ended well, but perhaps unfairly the whole franchise feels tainted now. I can't imagine I'm the only one feeling like this, and I dare say seeing the reaction to that disaster may have affected GRRM. We don't know how much influence he had on the show's ending, for all we know it was based on his notes for the final book.

[Sly Boots]

The books are absolutely fantastic, incidentally, don't let the S8 of the show put you off reading them!

[Animalmother]

Yeah they're really well written and there's a huge amount of stuff from the books that never made it into the show.

[Maturin]

Yeah, the first 3 books especially are definitely worth a read. Personally always felt he lost his way from the 4th book onwards, it all got rather bogged down, but it doesn't take away how good the first 3 were.

[Drarok]

I just can't get invested in a story that will almost certainly have no ending.

[Alan]

That’s why I haven’t started them. They’re all there on the bookshelf but I’m holding off with some hope. I’m sure we’ll get the next book in a year or so but the final one….. You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

[Alan]

Uh so lets see....

Holly - Stephen King
Other than End Of Watch which is probably the worst thing King has ever wrote I quite enjoy the Bill and Holly books. They're just fun little easy reads with some dumb stuff and this is more of that. The politics did annoy me a bit though. I'm pretty much with King on all counts but man it feels forced in here. The anti-antivax, anti trump etc.. and whenever a black character gets in a car someone says "dont get shot by the police". I know its something black folk in America have to deal with and yeah its important to put spotlights on such bullshit but man it feels amateur the way he does it over and over again here. It was fine, a wonderfully silly villain and good enough.

Making It So - Pat Stewart
The audiobook was quite delightful, especially hearing it in his own voice. The only downside is its quite skeezy when it comes to the women in his life and maybe a bit delusional at times. When filming Lifeforce his character was originally supposed to kiss a naked Mathilda May, when this was changed he told her how he regretted it and she told him she had wanted to kiss him too. It sounds like he tells almost like its a brag. Sure Pat, Mathilda May, drop dead beautiful 20 year old was just heartbroken at not getting to kiss your 45 year old married ass. Then the oh so cute anecdote (it seems, in his mind) about how he sent people to corral his now wife as she left his show and bring her to his dressing room. It just feels icky. I suppose we can say it was a different time and leave it at that but it left a bad taste. Really enjoyed everything else. I feel he does embellish a lot but fair enough. Not nearly as much as Brian Blessed did but also not nearly as fun either.

Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata
Ok I love Murata. I'm half way through this collection of her short stories and I love it. Shes so weird and wonderful. Loved her previous 2 novels and this is more of that. I'm sure shes not for everyone but whatever she gets translated into English going forward I'll read.

“The membrane covered fleshes leaned towards her.”