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I have been reading like a mad woman. I finished Hogfather by Terry Pratchett which has so many funny moments I won't burden you with retelling them. I'm also rereading Thud!, which is better this time around because I feel like I know the watch characters better.
I'm just over a hundred pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. So far it is disturbingly addictive. Although the entire book is written in third person, each chapter has a "point of view" character, whose thoughts and experiences are the focus of that chapter. I like this technique but I also wish the "point of view" characters were spread out better amongst the different families. As is, the Starks (including the illegitimate one) have six characters with point of view chapters, the Lannisters have one, and the Targaryens have one. The royal family Baratheon has no characters (although due to incest, technically several Baratheons are actually Lannisters) with point of view chapters. This creates the effect of the Stark family being depicted as far more noble and sympathetic than the other characters. So far, the villains, if there are any, would be the Lannisters and the Targaryens prince.(his sister is the point of view character) However, even these characters are given understandable motivations most of the time.
So far, I really like the character of Jon Snow, the Snark "bastard." I like calling him that because he's actually a really nice guy, so far anyway. As of now, his story is interesting because although he was illegitimate, he was raised in his father's house, with his father's "trueborn" (the novel's wording) children. Out of his five half-siblings, he has good relationships with three. He doesn't get along with his older sister and the baby doesn't count. His relationship with his stepmother, Caetlyn, is strained for understandable reasons. Caetlyn, another point of view character, hostility towards Jon is understandable but at the same time I have a harder time being sympathetic since Jon is so far a really nice guy and loyal to his siblings. Another cool part of his family is that each child has a direwolf that mirrors his or her owner's personality. Jon's is an albino.
Other then reading, I haven't done much. I need to start organizing and packing this week. The cruise is coming up, which I am looking forward to. My sister is an amusing brat and my family isn't driving me too crazy so things are pretty good. Oh, and funny story. At my parent's church, the slide show projection thing that the church does to post announcements and song lyrics had an amazing amount of typos, one of which was a "bad word." It made me giggle.
I'm just over a hundred pages into "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. So far it is disturbingly addictive. Although the entire book is written in third person, each chapter has a "point of view" character, whose thoughts and experiences are the focus of that chapter. I like this technique but I also wish the "point of view" characters were spread out better amongst the different families. As is, the Starks (including the illegitimate one) have six characters with point of view chapters, the Lannisters have one, and the Targaryens have one. The royal family Baratheon has no characters (although due to incest, technically several Baratheons are actually Lannisters) with point of view chapters. This creates the effect of the Stark family being depicted as far more noble and sympathetic than the other characters. So far, the villains, if there are any, would be the Lannisters and the Targaryens prince.(his sister is the point of view character) However, even these characters are given understandable motivations most of the time.
So far, I really like the character of Jon Snow, the Snark "bastard." I like calling him that because he's actually a really nice guy, so far anyway. As of now, his story is interesting because although he was illegitimate, he was raised in his father's house, with his father's "trueborn" (the novel's wording) children. Out of his five half-siblings, he has good relationships with three. He doesn't get along with his older sister and the baby doesn't count. His relationship with his stepmother, Caetlyn, is strained for understandable reasons. Caetlyn, another point of view character, hostility towards Jon is understandable but at the same time I have a harder time being sympathetic since Jon is so far a really nice guy and loyal to his siblings. Another cool part of his family is that each child has a direwolf that mirrors his or her owner's personality. Jon's is an albino.
Other then reading, I haven't done much. I need to start organizing and packing this week. The cruise is coming up, which I am looking forward to. My sister is an amusing brat and my family isn't driving me too crazy so things are pretty good. Oh, and funny story. At my parent's church, the slide show projection thing that the church does to post announcements and song lyrics had an amazing amount of typos, one of which was a "bad word." It made me giggle.