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SerJR ( member #14993) posted at 12:05 AM on Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Wait 'til you see the character guide at the end, meta! 
How is the TV series?
I read the books, about 8-9 years ago, but stopped after the 3rd book. I'm with LadyV on a lot of what she said (grit and realism are cool, but with the sex sometimes it seemed like I was looking at pages that Martin just spooged all over). I loved the first book but the more I read the less I started liking the series... and the less cohesive the world seemed.
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Hope is never lost. It exists within you - it is real. It is not a force in and of itself - it is something that you create with every thought, action, and choice you make. It is a gift that you create for yourself.
ladyvorkosigan ( member #8283) posted at 2:22 PM on Thursday, June 21st, 2012
When the author references a character he often makes note of a defining characteristic.
I've seen complaints about this, actually, that it's annoying. Me, I found it lazy, because it wouldn't be necessary if everybody's interior monologues weren't written in the same damn voice.
I mean, I should've peaced-out of Wheel of Time after Lord of Chaos because I knew he wasn't going to beat "Kneel before the Dragon Reborn, or you shall be knelt" unless he killed Faile painfully which was never going to happen and half-heartedly read maybe two more before going okay, Egwene, how fucking long are you going to camp the White Tower without attacking, plus I hate everything that is happening to mah boo Mat, so I was seriously done then. But you know what? As irritating as all that braid-yanking and skirt-rearranging was, I had no problem keeping up with all those characters. Clumsy, but effective. Perrin's interior monologue? Dumb as a sack of hair, so distinguishable from Mat, whose thoughts were quicker, and from Rand, with his moping and whinging.
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It nagged him, in particular, that none of the girls he’d known so far had given him a sense of unalloyed triumph.
aesir ( member #17210) posted at 3:49 PM on Thursday, June 21st, 2012
I am still wondering if SerJR is going to have to return his Engineering diploma if he gets caught reading for pleasure. 
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SerJR ( member #14993) posted at 12:27 PM on Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
My diploma is the one with the pictures so I can read it too!
Me: BH - Happily remarried.
Hope is never lost. It exists within you - it is real. It is not a force in and of itself - it is something that you create with every thought, action, and choice you make. It is a gift that you create for yourself.
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