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[rusty_halo]

I have no internet access at home. It's so depressing. Stupid Time Warner Cable. Someone is coming to fix it on Tuesday, but until then I can only get online from work. (During which time I should really be, y'know, working.) So no fic reading and no website updates until next week. (It's sort of like being in solitary confinement, cut off

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[mahaliem]

Sorry about your lack of internet access.

I love those books. There's so much pain and passion. I tried to get my daughter to start reading them and found myself describing them as "fascinating, like passing a car crash and wanting to look away, but being unable to."

Jaime Lannister is your favorite character? I should have known. :)

[rusty_halo]

fascinating, like passing a car crash and wanting to look away, but being unable to

Totally. There are moments when it's so unrelentingly dark that I start to lose interest, to be honest (sort of like with Spike--what unimaginably horrible thing is going to happen to the characters next?) That's tempered by the fact that the only characters I really care deeply about are Jaime and Tyrion, and Jaime's story has been one of the most positive. Yes, horrible things happened to him, but unlike most of the other characters, his experiences made him a better person.

Jaime Lannister is your favorite character? I should have known.

Of course! Jaime is the Spike of that series. Except that his story is much more coherent and well-written than Spike's, and it's genuinely about free will and the power of human choice instead of about some mystical deus ex machina.

[mahaliem]

Tyrion Lannister is my favorite, though I'm a bit worried about having favorites in these books since no one is safe from being killed off.

Yes, Jaime does become a better person. Of course, he was so terrible at the beginning, he couldn't possibly have become worse. Tyrion, I'm afraid, is heading in the opposite direction.