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shadowkat1. Back sciatia is better, apparently steroid shots do work in relieving this. Lower back is still a problem, but hey, one step at a time, right?
2. Reading meme, which I haven't been doing....
Currently reading?
A Dance With Dragons - yes, still, a page-turner, it's not. Plus it's quite on the grim edge of the fence. Made it to...
Davos chapter. And yes, I thought he was dead too. In Feast of Crows - I clearly remember a side reference to Davos being be-headed and his head being sent to Cersei.
I remember, because I thought at the time - wait, he killed him off-stage? After all those pov chapters? Really? Not that I mind, on the bright side - I'm spared more Davos point of view. But apparently I spoke too soon - we get it in A Dance With Dragons. I was confused, until I realized the Davos chapters are like the Jon Snow chapters, they take place either before or at the same time as the events in Feast of Crows. Really, Martin, if you wanted to do that - you should have published both at the same time or at the very least put the pov's that happen concurrently in the same book - saves on the confusion factor. It's not like there aren't enough things to keep track of. I think he likes to make his readers work.
Not a series of books for the faint of heart or the Harlequin crowd.
Am rather loving the Tyrion chapters, Dany's, and oddly Jon Snow - who has become a bit harsh. He just behead Janos Slynt. Not that Janos did not deserve it, but still.
Stannis has the oddest effect on people.
This series takes a turn in Storm of Swords...and just gets more and more twisted as you go.
Also reading Anne Rice's Exit to Eden more or less as an anti-dote.
Just finished reading The Captive Prince -- Volumes I & 2 - which was better than I expected. Like reading a really good I Claudius meets Lymond slash fanfic.
3. I need to stop reading the Metro newspaper on the way to work. It's starting to annoy me.
Apparently personnel assistants are just for the wealthy any longer - anyone can hire a personnel assistant for one day - to do everything from taking out the trash, shopping to sitting around for a repair guy or the Time Warner Cable guy to show up.
4. Been considering story tropes...but I have no idea what my favorites are. They seem to change like the wind. Or the weather...which went from the 80s to the 50s in less than two days. We had a brilliant thunder storm to announce the dip.
Story tropes I tend to like?
* reluctant hero who has a bit of an attitude, preferably snarky.
* rogue with a heart of gold (prefer male variety, but like female too - but more of a Xenia fan than a Faith fan)
* messiah complex or savior complex - this fascinates me for some reason, possibly because a dear friend had it in college and he died far too young of leukemia.
* super-powers - someone who had no power, who discovers suddenly they do.
* Redemption arcs - again depends, and mainly because I was a criminal defense attorney once upon a time, if that doesn't do it to you, nothing will
* outsider tales - people who feel like they are outside the group, excluded for some reason
* abusive relationships - because I want to understand how people get entangled in them and how they resolve them
* survival tales - surviving against incredible odds
* Female hero/male damsel - or gender flips - where the girl save the guy - I call it the Snow Queen trope.
* group of people who face a disaster and have to survive it working together
* anti-war tropes
* voyages
* memory loss
* back from the dead
* personality change or metamphorsis
Tropes am sort of sick of:
* anti-hero who can't ever be redeemed and his downfall - ie. Macbeth
* star-crossed lovers
* moralistic heroes who sacrifice themselves in christ-like fashion.
* Cinderella stories
* Nerds get the pretty popular girl
* last survivor female/male trope
* sacrificial girl....or guy trope for evil religion
* redeemed rapist
* mad scientist
There's more, but time for bed.
2. Reading meme, which I haven't been doing....
Currently reading?
A Dance With Dragons - yes, still, a page-turner, it's not. Plus it's quite on the grim edge of the fence. Made it to...
Davos chapter. And yes, I thought he was dead too. In Feast of Crows - I clearly remember a side reference to Davos being be-headed and his head being sent to Cersei.
I remember, because I thought at the time - wait, he killed him off-stage? After all those pov chapters? Really? Not that I mind, on the bright side - I'm spared more Davos point of view. But apparently I spoke too soon - we get it in A Dance With Dragons. I was confused, until I realized the Davos chapters are like the Jon Snow chapters, they take place either before or at the same time as the events in Feast of Crows. Really, Martin, if you wanted to do that - you should have published both at the same time or at the very least put the pov's that happen concurrently in the same book - saves on the confusion factor. It's not like there aren't enough things to keep track of. I think he likes to make his readers work.
Not a series of books for the faint of heart or the Harlequin crowd.
Am rather loving the Tyrion chapters, Dany's, and oddly Jon Snow - who has become a bit harsh. He just behead Janos Slynt. Not that Janos did not deserve it, but still.
Stannis has the oddest effect on people.
This series takes a turn in Storm of Swords...and just gets more and more twisted as you go.
Also reading Anne Rice's Exit to Eden more or less as an anti-dote.
Just finished reading The Captive Prince -- Volumes I & 2 - which was better than I expected. Like reading a really good I Claudius meets Lymond slash fanfic.
3. I need to stop reading the Metro newspaper on the way to work. It's starting to annoy me.
Apparently personnel assistants are just for the wealthy any longer - anyone can hire a personnel assistant for one day - to do everything from taking out the trash, shopping to sitting around for a repair guy or the Time Warner Cable guy to show up.
4. Been considering story tropes...but I have no idea what my favorites are. They seem to change like the wind. Or the weather...which went from the 80s to the 50s in less than two days. We had a brilliant thunder storm to announce the dip.
Story tropes I tend to like?
* reluctant hero who has a bit of an attitude, preferably snarky.
* rogue with a heart of gold (prefer male variety, but like female too - but more of a Xenia fan than a Faith fan)
* messiah complex or savior complex - this fascinates me for some reason, possibly because a dear friend had it in college and he died far too young of leukemia.
* super-powers - someone who had no power, who discovers suddenly they do.
* Redemption arcs - again depends, and mainly because I was a criminal defense attorney once upon a time, if that doesn't do it to you, nothing will
* outsider tales - people who feel like they are outside the group, excluded for some reason
* abusive relationships - because I want to understand how people get entangled in them and how they resolve them
* survival tales - surviving against incredible odds
* Female hero/male damsel - or gender flips - where the girl save the guy - I call it the Snow Queen trope.
* group of people who face a disaster and have to survive it working together
* anti-war tropes
* voyages
* memory loss
* back from the dead
* personality change or metamphorsis
Tropes am sort of sick of:
* anti-hero who can't ever be redeemed and his downfall - ie. Macbeth
* star-crossed lovers
* moralistic heroes who sacrifice themselves in christ-like fashion.
* Cinderella stories
* Nerds get the pretty popular girl
* last survivor female/male trope
* sacrificial girl....or guy trope for evil religion
* redeemed rapist
* mad scientist
There's more, but time for bed.
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Date: 2013-04-11 03:11 am (UTC)I loved it when Jon ordered Slynt beheaded. "Edd, fetch me a block" is one of the great moments for me.