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pinky0926
10/16/24 8:32:30 AM
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Things were just getting good and then you finish the chapter and the next one is the boring guy and his depressing storyline

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ultimate_reaver
10/16/24 8:33:29 AM
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Is this a Brandon Sanderson reference

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GiftedACIII
10/16/24 8:38:10 AM
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Happens all the time on TV too.

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R1masher
10/16/24 8:40:05 AM
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Probs the main reason why I stopped ingesting 87.3% of media

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havean776
10/16/24 8:43:37 AM
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Not as much as I hate when it enters the filler arch. Wheel of time...*shudders*.

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masterpug53
10/16/24 8:43:58 AM
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A big part of the reason I never cared for Stannis in the ASoIaF books is that book-Davos (who serves as the Stannis storyline's PoV, in case that needed clarification) is such a profoundly bland character imo.

The GoT show certainly had a mountain of flaws, but show-Davos is one of those rare instances where the adaptation vastly improves upon the source, and Liam Cunningham deserves a heap of praise for selling the character.

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JustaSandwich
10/16/24 8:48:03 AM
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ultimate_reaver posted...
Is this a Brandon Sanderson reference

Pretty sure he learned it from Robert Jordan.

Fucking Elayne and her fucking boring ass politics plotline.
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havean776
10/16/24 8:57:19 AM
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JustaSandwich posted...
Pretty sure he learned it from Robert Jordan.

Fucking Elayne and her fucking boring ass politics plotline.
Or Periin. "I must save Fale!" For 4 fucking books.

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saspa
10/16/24 8:59:20 AM
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masterpug53 posted...
A big part of the reason I never cared for Stannis in the ASoIaF books is that book-Davos (who serves as the Stannis storyline's PoV, in case that needed clarification) is such a profoundly bland character imo.

The GoT show certainly had a mountain of flaws, but show-Davos is one of those rare instances where the adaptation vastly improves upon the source, and Liam Cunningham deserves a heap of praise for selling the character.

This, word for word and the first thing I thought of.

It's insane how much better show Davos is from the milquetoast book character.

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DodogamaRayBrst
10/16/24 9:00:37 AM
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Sansa chapters are rough.
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Compsognathus
10/16/24 9:05:08 AM
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JustaSandwich posted...
Pretty sure he learned it from Robert Jordan.

Fucking Elayne and her fucking boring ass politics plotline.
I'd rather read a dozen Elayne bath scenes than read a single Perrin chapter after like book 7.

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JustaSandwich
10/16/24 9:17:38 AM
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havean776 posted...
Or Periin. "I must save Fale!" For 4 fucking books.

Made even more annoying by the fact that the whole "Rescue Faile" plotline was extremely chronologically detached from the rest of the narrative for no apparent reason. I guess other than the fact that there was just so damn much of it, so Perrin's story just kept stalling more and more as every else's kept progressing into the future.
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ReturnOfDevsman
10/16/24 9:31:18 AM
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I have a giant list of writing pet peeves.

Remember that guy that died? He didn't really die.

Remember that guy that died? He's still dead but here's a new episode about him anyway.

BTW, now that this rival/secondary antagonist is dying, here's how he was actually a good guy all along.

Mwahaha, it was me all along! What do you mean you've never seen me before; I had like four seconds of screen time in season three.

Mwahaha, now that I've been outed as a bad guy, I've never actually liked you.

Mwahaha, here's the truth about your past that for some reason only I, the bad guy, want to tell you even though literally everyone but you knows, and of course I'm telling the truth because evidently telling the truth is what bad guys do.

Oh no the world is ending in three days unless we stop it; let's go spend 30 hours playing minigames in the casino and tracking down random worthless junk for random NPCs.

Oh no the world is ending in three days unless we stop it; for real though, we all need to spend some time figuring out why we want to save it.

The church is the bad guys! I bet you sure are surprised!

Grr I'm evil, but you should feel bad for me anyway because something sad happened to me a long time ago.

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spanky1
10/16/24 10:26:11 AM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
I felt this way about Cersei's chapters in the Feast for Crows. It felt like every other chapter was her viewpoint. She's so profoundly awful and all the decisions she makes are unhinged and stupid that it almost made me quit the book.

She's literally the best part of that book.

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LonelyStoner
10/16/24 10:27:39 AM
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Im rereading The Dark Tower series at the moment and I loathe the Jake chapters. Theyre written really well, but the character doesnt do much for me.

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Kai_Laguna
10/16/24 10:40:34 AM
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This is why I never followed Preston and Child's series after Relic and Reliquary. Agent Pendergast was just completely unlikeable.
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kirbymuncher
10/16/24 10:45:39 AM
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pinky0926 posted...
Things were just getting good and then you finish the chapter and the next one is the boring guy and his depressing storyline
and then just when you're starting to come around to it and things are actually somehow becoming interesting despite being about the boring guy, it switches perspective again

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LonelyStoner
10/16/24 10:47:33 AM
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kirbymuncher posted...
and then just when you're starting to come around to it and things are actually somehow becoming interesting despite being about the boring guy, it switches perspective again
George Railroad Martin is the greatest offender of this.

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jumi
10/16/24 10:52:23 AM
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masterpug53 posted...
A big part of the reason I never cared for Stannis in the ASoIaF books is that book-Davos (who serves as the Stannis storyline's PoV, in case that needed clarification) is such a profoundly bland character imo.

Stannis the Blandest.

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Baron_Ox
10/16/24 10:55:09 AM
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The Count of Monte Cristo is tied for being my favorite book, but when I was reading it (the unabridged version), the perspective changed to this young couple in a relationship.

I almost quit reading.

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jumi
10/16/24 10:56:25 AM
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Baron_Ox posted...
The Count of Monte Cristo is tied for being my favorite book, but when I was reading it (the unabridged version), the perspective changed to this young couple in a relationship.

I almost quit reading.

The two girls? That's one of the funnest parts.

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Baron_Ox
10/16/24 10:59:42 AM
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nah, it's been a long while since I've read it, but one of them was the young dude in the military(?)

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UltimAXE
10/16/24 11:00:12 AM
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A Feast for Crows was a tough read because it follows literally every character that you (or at least I) didn't give a shit about and saved all of the ones that have interesting stuff going on for the next book. I dropped it fairly early on the first go around.

spanky1 posted...
She's literally the best part of that book.
As memory serves, I probably agree with that. Getting into Cersei's head for the first time was eye-opening because you realize how bat-shit fucking crazy she is.

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DodogamaRayBrst
10/16/24 11:05:58 AM
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I really like Feast because I find the Dorne and Iron Islands stuff super interesting.

Dance has a more appealing character set, but my god the story in it is so shitty.
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K181
10/16/24 11:07:00 AM
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*reads Huck Finn*
Me: This is great!
*Tom Sawyer shows up*
Me: Fffffffffffffffffffffffffff-

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ReturnOfDevsman
10/16/24 11:36:15 AM
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Baron_Ox posted...
nah, it's been a long while since I've read it, but one of them was the young dude in the military(?)
Maximilian Morrel and Valentine Villefort.

Yeah, it did come completely out of left field and didn't feel particularly relevant until later, so I can understand why you'd consider bailing. That chapter is very difficult to read when you don't know where it's going. But it actually becomes one of the most important subplots in the story.

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UnholyMudcrab
10/16/24 11:38:11 AM
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I skipped the last half or so of Bran's chapters in A Dance With Dragons. Just could not bring myself to give a fuck about him.

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Baron_Ox
10/16/24 12:11:05 PM
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ReturnOfDevsman posted...
Maximilian Morrel and Valentine Villefort.

Yeah, it did come completely out of left field and didn't feel particularly relevant until later, so I can understand why you'd consider bailing. That chapter is very difficult to read when you don't know where it's going. But it actually becomes one of the most important subplots in the story.
yea, I appreciated it in retrospect, but as a first time reader, it was really off putting.

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Stagmar
10/16/24 12:49:02 PM
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And then the epilogue is from the viewpoint of the shit character and he suddenly has a harem.


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masterpug53
10/16/24 1:52:12 PM
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DodogamaRayBrst posted...
I really like Feast because I find the Dorne and Iron Islands stuff super interesting.

Dance has a more appealing character set, but my god the story in it is so shitty.

Yeah, after two readthroughs I definitely prefer Feast over Dance. Seeing how the war affected the smallfolk was very interesting, and became increasingly intriguing with how the Sparrows were spearheading a usurpation of the ruling class (which of course the show absolutely trashed by turning the faction into one-dimensional gay-bashers).

Dance focused on the 'good' characters, but it was really egregious how most of the plots were ultimately just setup for a sixth book that we're likely never going to get (Feast has its share of cliffhangers too, but doesn't leave the bitter taste in my mouth that Dance does).

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ZaruenKosai
10/16/24 3:37:21 PM
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masterpug53 posted...
A big part of the reason I never cared for Stannis in the ASoIaF books is that book-Davos (who serves as the Stannis storyline's PoV, in case that needed clarification) is such a profoundly bland character imo.

The GoT show certainly had a mountain of flaws, but show-Davos is one of those rare instances where the adaptation vastly improves upon the source, and Liam Cunningham deserves a heap of praise for selling the character.


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"If he commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil! I loved that girl, like she was my own. She was good, she was kind, and you killed her!"

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masterpug53
10/16/24 3:42:01 PM
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ZaruenKosai posted...
Major Game of Thrones Spoilers, Do not Look if you have not seen the show completely.

"If he commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil! I loved that girl, like she was my own. She was good, she was kind, and you killed her!"

Yeah, Liam Cunningham fucking slayed in that scene. One of the many reasons that the s6 finale was an uncharacteristic beacon of excellence in the morass that was the latter half of the show.

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havean776
10/16/24 3:44:02 PM
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ZaruenKosai posted...
Major Game of Thrones Spoilers, Do not Look if you have not seen the show completely.

"If he commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil! I loved that girl, like she was my own. She was good, she was kind, and you killed her!"
I doubt that will happen in the books.

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Vengeance29
10/16/24 3:44:36 PM
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A Feast for Crows suffers from this.

Generic prologue character -Aeron -Areo. It takes 50 pages to get to a familiar character.
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lilORANG
10/16/24 3:45:40 PM
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Nasuada in those Eragon books. Whole chapters dedicated to making silk to fund the resistance.

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DrizztLink
10/16/24 3:50:06 PM
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*tugs braid*

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Robot2600
10/16/24 3:59:51 PM
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Hello,

I'm The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien. My first half is about 3 heroes: a man, elf, and dwarf having crazy adventures, traveling to different locations, also some horse people. Also ENTS! Motherfucking ents. This shit is engaging, it's exciting, and it's well written.

However, for the second half...

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Shamino
10/16/24 4:12:43 PM
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havean776 posted...
Or Periin. "I must save Fale!" For 4 fucking books.

It's this. I could tolerate Perrin alone, but once Fail showed up I ended up hating him (and her obviously).
Now I just skip any chapters with them, aside from the last few books where Perrin is mostly on his own.

DrizztLink posted...
*tugs braid*

Nynaeve that you?


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