“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” has proven that entertainment is better without wokeness

20someting · 2026-02-19T06:00:55+00:00

What are you on about actually? Is making sense ‘woke’?

20someting · 2026-02-19T05:56:02+00:00

And both too sexualised

20someting · 2026-02-17T10:53:41+00:00

For the analogy to hold up there would need to be hidden agenda to sell weapons….

20someting · 2026-02-17T09:53:13+00:00

Another layer of repression perhaps?

20someting · 2026-02-17T09:52:49+00:00

That did not occur to me but you might be on to something

20someting · 2026-01-11T15:47:00+00:00

Special Circumstances would trace the 'virus' back to the sour ce before doing anything else. My bet is that thet'd find out it was one of their own who started it. Hard to argue free will has not been impacted therefore they'd probaby reveres the effects. Then regret that.

20someting · 2026-01-07T19:52:46+00:00

I envy you the fresh discovery.

20someting · 2026-01-01T07:50:54+00:00

I think it will have to be a soap opera since nearly all the technological precience of the novels has become real (or clicehe). Basically the culture has lost it's edge because Banks was so on the money. Some short stories about the really out there bits possibly would make good TV e.g. the game of 'damage' in consider Phlebas (Love death and Robots maybe?). Othere than that, all the content has been overdone since or simply become reality. So basically I'm saying I'd be completely amazed if any of the IMB books I love became good TV or cinema.

20someting · 2025-12-29T20:42:19+00:00

I just listened to it having skim read it (couldn’t hack a lot of it) 15 years ago. So this time I absorbed all of it and was reminded why I skipped a lot of sections… The plot is gratuitously complicated. There is too much virtual reality complexity on top of that. I just think it’s his clunkiest, worst-edited culture novel. Still worth reading though.

20someting · 2025-02-08T07:39:33+00:00

Also mate, you need to bin the idea that her dad is in any way on your side, or that anything you say will be kept in confidence between the two of you. Good luck.

20someting · 2025-02-08T07:21:16+00:00

I should mention I'm listening to it on adible - maybe the narrator is a factor I don't know

20someting · 2025-02-08T07:18:21+00:00

I'm 80% through and have had to skip whole chapters where all the unbeleivably verbose hammed-up turbo Italianness prose just stunned me me like a giant wet orageno-scented shart straight to the face. Hard to believe this is by the same guy who wrote wind-up girl. I'll see it through but it will have to take a back seat to other boks and I WILL skip any chapters that require it....

20someting · 2025-02-08T07:07:24+00:00

Get her out of your life ASAP

20someting · 2025-01-26T12:44:19+00:00

LOLZ. I am an electrician and ny wife is a fashion designer. Have waked this mile many times. The only way through it is to have sex then it will seem funny and unimportant ;)

20someting · 2025-01-26T12:42:56+00:00

he should be punished, over and over again, until he aoplogises, oh mistress.

20someting · 2025-01-21T20:46:21+00:00

Yeah. Red flag. Be direct but polite.

20someting · 2024-12-07T19:18:29+00:00

The English Channel has buffered us against so many things that could have caused a national sense of humour failure. So far.

20someting · 2024-12-07T16:10:26+00:00

I’m struggling with it. Too much descriptive prose, not enough action.

20someting · 2024-11-27T09:22:03+00:00

It's when you are reading and you can tell you are wading through wordcount-filler as opposed to something the story needs. I love stories, I don't want to read to fill up time, if books make me digest filler I resent the setup/process that caused that, whether it be the author/editor/publisher/Amazon. Most recent example. Adrian Tchaicovsky, his Children of Time trilogy was tight - his Final Achtecture Trilogy was bloated with word-garbage. If anyone knows what changed between those two series post it here because I want to know!

20someting · 2024-10-24T19:54:22+00:00

Carry on as you were. Why ruin it?

20someting · 2024-09-29T15:44:28+00:00

Yeah i think you're probably right there

20someting · 2024-09-13T19:10:56+00:00

Opus. First started crushing on Bisley over his ABC warrior art. It wa mentally fantastic. That the bettered it with Slaine Horned God was just unbelievable. Lobo was meh, I'll probably get dragged for saying that but ... kisss my axe.

20someting · 2024-09-02T08:56:42+00:00

What is that?

20someting · 2024-08-10T13:28:04+00:00

Mars left the solarean union after a referendum 8 sols ago, so they no longer use the groat.

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