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Vivian Maier Snaps Chicago
Today on Tablet, a look at bygone Jewish Chicago through the lens
Frances Brent has a wonderful piece on the photographer Vivian Maier. whom he came to know a little bit in his youth.
Vivian was clearly restless in our world, but she lived in Highland Park for 16 years, and her camera (sometimes more than one) was always around her neck. I have two memories of her that stand out, from when I was 7 or 8 years old. The first is from a beautiful, warm afternoon and someone—maybe Vivian—had the idea to enter the gates of Ravinia Park, which wasn't far from where we lived. I was with a group of children, and we were running like crazy. When we exhausted ourselves, we collapsed on the grass near a garden with a fountain and Vivian was at arms-length from us, looking down into her viewfinder. I remember thinking it was strange because she was very still and didn't look up, she didn't look up at us. At the same time, I remember being perfectly comfortable in her silence.
Some of Maier's pictures are included. See it here.
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The "Gold" Standard: Fixing Aortic Aneurysms
February 15, 2013
A doctor is using a little gold and a little ingenuity to help treat a deadly problem. Find out how he's fixing aortic aneurysms and how his work could have a big impact on patients.
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The guys are quick on their feet, too; when an audience member's cell went off on opening night, one of them snarled, "Give me that phone. I'll tell them where you are." How can this show be topped? Well, one of the guys just told me that a friend of his does "bum tricks." Get ready for Puppetry of the Anus.
By the way, Jennifer Coolidge saw the show and told me, "They can do a windsurfer? Well, my boyfriends can put together a music stand!" Even camp legend Charles Nelson Reilly mentions the gonadal drama in his one-man show, Save It for the Stage, in the context of describing how George Maharis's dick was "the biggest thing Off-Broadway" (they worked together). And Reilly mesmerizingly traverses the length of his own life, describing how he triumphed over much unsolicited advice. ("They don't allow queers on television," a producer once told himbut the guy was later killed by a male hustler.) Reilly proved them all wrong by becoming so omnipresent he admits to once thinking, "Who do I have to fuck to get off TV?"
That cute Brooke Shields has taken off from the tube to do Cabaret, and someone I know who saw the show calls it Suddenly Sally Bowles. (I saw it starring Gina Gershon, but had to move upstairs when the tourists at my table started cheerily singing along to "Tomorrow Belongs to Me.") Meanwhile, I hear that the fabulous Brittany Murphy ("I'll never tell . . . ") is negotiating to play Sally, though right now she's making that Eminem movie, which I guess is also about the rise of Nazism, tee-hee.
A wartime escape happens Tuesdays at Marion's, where "human parrot" Lee Byar pops out in drag as a different diva every time you finish a course. Last week, it went like this: soda, Carol, salad, Judy, entrée, Marilyn, dessert, Bette. And suddenly I was Shelley Winters.
Finally, that ditsy diva, Sir V.S. Naipaul, just won a Nobel Prize, but his homophobic views won't cop any awards. In a recent interview, Naipaul said that E.M. Forster had "his own purposes in India. He is a homosexual and he has his time in India, exploiting poor people." As for Forster's pal, economist John Maynard Keynes, "he sodomized [people] and they were too frightened to do anything about it." Gee, I feel sort of raped.
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The Interfaith Couples of ConnectedBy Gerri Miller
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Watching Hanukkah
Some very different videos to start getting you ready for this holiday season.
Let's start with the basics. How do you spell the name of this holiday in English? And what's the deal with latkes? From the senior citizens at the Los Angeles Jewish Home, some of the more pressing questions of the season:
A mashup of top hits from decades past (a different era for each night of Hanukkah?), rewritten to explain the history, story and rituals of Hanukkah:
Then, Sarah Silverman's take on the December dilemma. Warning: her lyrics are, unsurprisingly, explicit. So I'm going to let you click over to it yourself.
Of course, there's our favorite video, Lighting the Hanukkah Menorah:
"It's time to light the hanukkiah, the Hanukkah menorah!" might be my favorite line.
And if you're more a gastronomical celebrant than religious enthusiast, you might enjoy the Potato Tabernacle Choir's performance of Cheryl Wheeler's Potato Song:
(Wondering why there are so few videos here? Check out what our friends at the Jewish Women's Archive had to say about the lack of progressive Jewish viral videos.)
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"Thoughts can kill. Again. Hold onto your head, they're back!" - Scanners II (1991)
"Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurences that many believe to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now." - The Reaping (2007)
"Threatened. Attacked. Jailed. Could you get on the bus?" - Freedom Riders (2010)
"Threatening the very limits of common decency" - A Dirty Shame (2004)
"Three brothers. One dream." - Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads (2006)
"Three brothers. One must live. One must die. One must decide." - The Proposition (2006)
"Three different women married Frankie Lymon. Now as they fight to get a piece of his millions, they will have to prove who married him first and who loved him most. Based on a true story of love, music and money." - Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
"Three generations of dreams." - My Family, Mi Familia (1995)
"Three generations of family. They shared a dream called America in a place called Avalon." - Avalon (1990)
"Three generations... Different lives. One family." - The Amati Girls (2000)
"Three girls vs. the world." - We Are the Best! (2013)
"Three kingdoms - one fate." - Red Cliff (aka Chi bi) (2009)
"Three lifelong friends are out to prove that the best times are still ahead." - The Cemetery Club (1993)
"Three lives. Bound by blood. Divided by fate. Driven by destiny." - Bound by Honor (1993)
"Three lives. One destiny." - Head in the Clouds (2004)
"Three lives... bound together in blood" - Red White & Blue (2010)
"Three minus one equals zero." - Return to Zero (2013)
"Three outlaws. One map. No prisoners." - The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2009)
"Three people... two passions... one choice." - Fires Within (1991)
"Three rebels willing to take on the world. Two lovers risking it all. One story, untold until now." - Little Ashes (2009)
"Three relationships. Three disasters. One last chance." - Definitely, Maybe (2008)
"Three salty dogs seek one spicy kitten" - The Golden Boys (aka Chatham) (2009)
"Three stories, three continents, one commitment to change" - Elemental (2013)
"Three strangers trapped. One killer dying to get out." - Blackout (2008)
"Three strangers with nothing to lose. And everything to find." - The Lucky Ones (2008)
"three strangers. five days. one family" - Owl and the Sparrow (2009)
"Three urban hombres heading west, seeking adventure, craving excitement... and longing for room service." - City Slickers (1991)
"Three virgins. One banned book. No turning back." - Bindlestiffs (2012)
"Three visionary directors. One erotic journey." - Eros (2005)
"Three weddings. One happy couple." - Confetti (2006)
"Three weddings. One happy couple. May the best wedding win!" - Confetti (2006)
"Three women on the run... saving each other... saving themselves." - Vivere (2008)
"Three women. Three cities. Three times the trouble." - Chasing Papi (2003)
"Through DNA experimentation Dr. Moreau has upset the balance of nature. By turning animals into humans, he's turned heaven into hell." - The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1996)
"Through generations of change some will get a second chance" - Steel City (2007)
"Through the good times. Through the bad times. It's for all times." - When A Man Loves A Woman (1994)
"Throughout the ages, one hero has cowered above the rest." - Scooby-Doo (2002)
"Throw him a bone" - Corpse Bride (2005)
"Throw the ball. Catch the girl. Keep it simple." - The Replacements (2000)
"Thrown out of the circus. Separated from his only friend. Accused of a crime he didn't commit.... This shouldn't happen to a dog, but it did." - Bingo (1991)
"Thunder buddies for life" - Ted 2 (2015)
"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done." - The Boondock Saints (1999)
"Tibet's struggle for freedom" - The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (2010)
"Till honeymoon do us part" - You May Not Kiss the Bride (2011)
"Time brings all things to light." - All the King's Men (2006)
"Time can be your worst enemy" - Eternity (2013)
"Time heals all wounds" - Thriftstore Cowboy (2012)
"Time is money" - In Time (2011)
"Time is power" - In Time (2011)
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UNION COUNTY — A parade through the streets of Union will be held Thursday to honor the Union County High School Yellow Jackets softball team and the Union County High School Indoor Percussion Ensemble.
In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Jeff Stribble, Director of Personnel and Student Services for the Union County School District, announced that a parade will be held in honor of the UCHS Yellow Jackets softball team and Indoor Percussion Ensemble on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. The parade will begin on Main Street at the Union County YMC and end at the Union County Courthouse.
Stribble said that the parade will be followed by a brief ceremony at the courthouse. He said that Union County Supervisor Tommy Sinclair, City of Union Mayor Harold Thompson, UCHS Principal Floyd Lyles, and Softball Coach Tommy Petty will each make brief remarks.
The parade is being held to honor the Lady Jackets who on Saturday became the 2014 3A State Softball Champions after defeating Hartsville in the second of two championship games. The best-of-three state championship series began this past Wednesday at the Timken Sports Complex where the Lady Jackets defeated Hartsville 4-3. The series continued and concluded on Saturday at Hartsville where the Lady Jackets gained the championship with a winning score of 8-5.
Also being honored Thursday is the UCHS Indoor Percussion Ensemble which in April placed 14th in the WGI World Championships in Dayton, Ohio. This was preceded in March by the ensemble winning the State Championship at the South Carolina Band Director's Association Winter Ensemble State Championships.


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As our collective affection for apps on smart devices grows, the Internet-connected TV app marketplace has become another big opportunity for publishers, advertisers and individual developers. Industry analysts project that by 2014, global sales of TVs with Internet access will reach 123 million sets. And as flat screens in our homes come online with Internet capability en masse over the next few years, we know that bringing Web content to your set in a personally relevant and easy-to-use way will be the key to making it the magical, convergent experience the industry has fantasized about for, well, decades.
Your TV Just Got Smarter: Yahoo! Introduces Dozens of New Connected TV Apps
Yahoo! has been at the forefront of the burgeoning Internet-connected TV landscape since 2009, when we first introduced Yahoo! Connected TV. We currently power the TV app experience for more than 8 million households on leading brand TVs including VIZIO, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba and LG. We created a personalized TV experience by combining your favorite Web content with the TV programming you're already watching. This contrasts with other approaches that make you search for that content using a PC browser model. We want to bring you more of the content you love, and as the world's premier digital media company, we are uniquely positioned to make that happen in partnership with our global developer and publisher community.
Today, we're introducing more than 30 new TV apps available across the Yahoo! Connected TV platform, bringing the total to more than 120 available TV apps. Connected TV apps range in purpose from fun to functional, including social networking, streaming music, casual games, personalized financial quotes, locally relevant news, weather and sports, and more than 75,000 movies and TV shows on demand.
New TV apps recently made available on the Yahoo! Connected TV platform, represent a variety of top brand and more niche, long tail content. Examples include:
- NHL GameCenter™ – The free NHL GameCenter™ app makes a great companion to watching live NHL hockey on television. People can keep track of live playoff scores, stats, news, and highlights from around the league without leaving the game they are watching. Full-length archived and classic games dating back to the 1960s can also be accessed by linking an NHL Vault™ or NHL GameCenter LIVE™ subscription.
- Vimeo – Host your videos in high quality on Vimeo.com and watch them with the Vimeo TV app, along with thousands of other inspiring works from talented creators.
- BIGSTAR Movies On-Demand – People can stream from a selection of thousands of feature-length independent movies and foreign films, all for less than 17 cents a day through a monthly membership.
- Home Shopping Network – HSN Shop by Remote interactive shopping gives you the ability to purchase items using just a remote control. It's easy, secure, and the fastest way to buy HSN products.
- SGNL by Sony – SGNL by Sony provides a close-up look at Sony's gadgets, games, music, and movies.
Photo Sharing:
- Joomeo – View Web-based photo and video albums in a Joomeo space on the TV.
- Ford – Ford Edge, 2012 Ford Focus, and Lincoln MKX – these Ford TV apps display information and videos about the hottest new cars from Ford. As a broadcast interactivity pilot program partner, Ford plans to integrate these TV apps with live TV commercials later this year.
Television Stations:
- TVO Kids and TVO Internet TV – Quality educational video content for kids and grown-ups from TVO, Ontario's public educational media organization.
- Trinity Broadcast Network – Watch full-length feature films, specials, and TV programs from the world's largest religious network and America's most-watched faith channel.
- Local TV stations (20) providing on-demand local weather, news, and sports from the following markets and more:
- Atlanta – WGCL (CBS)
- Detroit – WXYZ (ABC)
- Houston – KHOU (IND)
- Kansas City – KSHB (NBC)
- Las Vegas – KVVU (FOX)
Today, app developers can create free or paid TV apps for the Connected TV platform. The Yahoo! Connected TV Store, featuring a gallery of for-fee TV apps, is expected to launch in the near future. Yahoo! is also preparing a pilot program for a new feature called broadcast interactivity, which will sync TV apps with live broadcast content, as announced at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Shrink4Men Radio will be back this Monday, February 20, 2012 at 9pm EST.
My co-host for the evening, Paul Elam of AVoiceforMen, and I will be speaking with Daddy Justice (Ben Vonderheide) about his role in exposing one of Pennsylvania's corrupt judges, Kelly S. Ballentine. We'll also be discussing Mr. Vonderheide's continued activism and what you can do to get involved if you'd like to help fight the rigged, corrupt and gender biased family court system.
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The museum will be Closed for the winter from Dec 8th to the first part of April 2015. Opening date will be announced at a later date. If you need a winter tour or do genealogy or work on a history topic. Call Maxine at 402 274-3735 & leave a message if she doesn't answer or Ruth at 402 274-8318.
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Hark, "the Angels" are playing and singing thoughout the afternoon.
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This weekly course covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré. Authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman will also help you understand the impacts of compression and the difference between cropped (or micro 4/3rds) and full-sized sensors in cameras, and much more. This continual FAQ guide is a handy way to find the answers to the questions that plague you the most.
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The current population of Pittsburg County is 48,022 with the median age of 39. Pittsburg County's median household income is $42,173, and the average household net worth is $300,033. 35% of Pittsburg County's population are long term residents having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 17% of Pittsburg County's population have moved in the last year.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Pittsburg County by age group. In Pittsburg County, the male-to-female ratio is 24,338:23,684, which is 5% higher than the ratio of Oklahoma, which is 1,932,033:1,974,628. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Oklahoma, has 13% more property crime than the national average, and has 5% more personal crime than the national average
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Pittsburg County that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Pittsburg County, 75% of people are married and 25% of people are single. The percent of people married is 1% higher than the ratio of Oklahoma, which is 74%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Pittsburg County income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Pittsburg County is $42,173, which is 6% lower than that of Oklahoma ($44,851). Income data for Pittsburg County is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Pittsburg County. In Pittsburg County, 18% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 15% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 8% lower than that of Oklahoma. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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Coupe of the Year: GT86 vs BRZ
Toyota GT86 and Subaru BRZ. Which one is the evil twin? Dan Read finds out...
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And with the benefit of hindsight or, rather, no sight, other things are revealed. The Toyota has a deeper, more resonant sound. Both pipe induction noise into the cabin through a rubber hose, but the Toyota does it better. Then again, this BRZ had done twice as many miles as the GT, so maybe that has something to do with it. The GT's damping felt a touch firmer too. These might seem like tiny things, but such marginal differences can be explained like race-car set-up: Lewis might prefer a lively rear end, where Jenson prefers something less playful. Essentially, they still drive the same car.
So what if I was forced to choose? One of these must become our Coupe of the Year. And it's going to be the Toyota. Partly due to that extra playfulness, partly because the more aggressive styling suits it better than the BRZ's. But here's the thing: you can get your hands on one sooner. Whatever the engineering input, there was an agreement that Toyota got the lion's share of stock. That, plus big demand in Japan and the USA, means there's currently a six-month waiting list for a BRZ in the UK.


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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry uncovered over 5,000 proteins that are present in mouse embryonic stem cells. Around 1,700 proteins have already been identified in stem cells.
Using mass spectrometry and special heavy amino acids made with carbon-13, the Max-Plank team report that they quantified 5,111 distinct mouse stem-cell proteins. As expected, a good portion of these proteins are involved in rapid cell growth, but overall, the proteome encompassed a broad range of cell functions.
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"A splendid saga . . . . Inventive and intricately plotted."—BookPage
"Magic . . . George R.R.Martin's first fantasy epic [is set] well above the norms of the genre."—Locus
"Such a splendid tale and such a fantasticorical! I read my eyes out and couldn't stop 'til I finished and it was dawn."—Anne McCaffrey
"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead."
"Do the dead frighten you?" Ser Waymar Royce asked with just the hint of a smile.
Gared did not rise to the bait. He was an old man, past fifty, and he had seen the lordlings come and go. "Dead is dead," he said. "We have no business with the dead."
"Are they dead?" Royce asked softly. "What proof have we?"
"Will saw them," Gared said. "If he says they are dead, that's proof enough for me."
Will had known they would drag him into the quarrel sooner or later. He wished it had been later rather than sooner. "My mother told me that dead men sing no songs," he put in.
"My wet nurse said the same thing, Will," Royce replied. "Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit. There are things to be learned even from the dead." His voice echoed, too loud in the twilit forest.
"We have a long ride before us," Gared pointed out. "Eight days, maybe nine. And night is falling."
Ser Waymar Royce glanced at the sky with disinterest. "It does that every day about this time. Are you unmanned by the dark, Gared?"
Will could see the tightness around Gared's mouth, the barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. Gared had spent forty years in the Night's Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. Yet it was more than that. Under the wounded pride, Will could sense something else in the older man. You could taste it; a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear.
Will shared his unease. He had been four years on the Wall. The first time he had been sent beyond, all the old stories had come rushing back, and his bowels had turned to water. He had laughed about it afterward. He was a veteran of a hundred rangings by now, and the endless dark wilderness that the southron called the haunted forest had no more terrors for him.
Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise. Nine days they had been riding, north and northwest and then north again, farther and farther from the Wall, hard on the track of a band of wildling raiders. Each day had been worse than the day that had come before it. Today was the worst of all. A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. All day, Will had felt as though something were watching him, something cold and implacable that loved him not. Gared had felt it too. Will wanted nothing so much as to ride hellbent for the safety of the Wall, but that was not a feeling to share with your commander.
Especially not a commander like this one.
Ser Waymar Royce was the youngest son of an ancient house with too many heirs. He was a handsome youth of eighteen, grey-eyed and graceful and slender as a knife. Mounted on his huge black destrier, the knight towered above Will and Gared on their smaller garrons. He wore black leather boots, black woolen pants, black moleskin gloves, and a fine supple coat of gleaming black ringmail over layers of black wool and boiled leather. Ser Waymar had been a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch for less than half a year, but no one could say he had not prepared for his vocation. At least insofar as his wardrobe was concerned.
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. "Bet he killed them all himself, he did," Gared told the barracks over wine, "twisted their little heads off, our mighty warrior." They had all shared the laugh.
It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at in your cups, Will reflected as he sat shivering atop his garron. Gared must have felt the same.
"Mormont said as we should track them, and we did," Gared said. "They're dead. They shan't trouble us no more. There's hard riding before us. I don't like this weather. If it snows, we could be a fortnight getting back, and snow's the best we can hope for. Ever seen an ice storm, my lord?"
The lordling seemed not to hear him. He studied the deepening twilight in that half-bored, half-distracted way he had. Will had ridden with the knight long enough to understand that it was best not to interrupt him when he looked like that. "Tell me again what you saw, Will. All the details. Leave nothing out."
Will had been a hunter before he joined the Night's Watch. Well, a poacher in truth. Mallister freeriders had caught him red-handed in the Mallisters' own woods, skinning one of the Mallisters' own bucks, and it had been a choice of putting on the black or losing a hand. No one could move through the woods as silent as Will, and it had not taken the black brothers long to discover his talent.
"The camp is two miles farther on, over that ridge, hard beside a stream," Will said. "I got close as I dared. There's eight of them, men and women both. No children I could see. They put up a lean-to against the rock. The snow's pretty well covered it now, but I could still make it out. No fire burning, but the firepit was still plain as day. No one moving. I watched a long time. No living man ever lay so still."
"Did you see any blood?"
"Well, no," Will admitted.
"Did you see any weapons?"
"Some swords, a few bows. One man had an axe. Heavy-looking, double-bladed, a cruel piece of iron. It was on the ground beside him, right by his hand."
"Did you make note of the position of the bodies?"
Will shrugged. "A couple are sitting up against the rock. Most of them on the ground. Fallen, like."
"Or sleeping," Royce suggested.
"Fallen," Will insisted. "There's one woman up an ironwood, half-hid in the branches. A far-eyes." He smiled thinly. "I took care she never saw me. When I got closer, I saw that she wasn't moving neither." Despite himself, he shivered.
"You have a chill?" Royce asked.
"Some," Will muttered. "The wind, m'lord."
The young knight turned back to his grizzled man-at-arms. Frost-fallen leaves whispered past them, and Royce's destrier moved restlessly. "What do you think might have killed these men, Gared?" Ser Waymar asked casually. He adjusted the drape of his long sable cloak.
"It was the cold," Gared said with iron certainty. "I saw men freeze last winter, and the one before, when I was half a boy. Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns, it does. Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it. It's easier just to sit down or go to sleep. They say you don't feel any pain toward the end. First you go weak and drowsy, and everything starts to fade, and then it's like sinking into a sea of warm milk. Peaceful, like."
"Such eloquence, Gared," Ser Waymar observed. "I never suspected you had it in you."
"I've had the cold in me too, lordling." Gared pulled back his hood, giving Ser Waymar a good long look at the stumps where his ears had been. "Two ears, three toes, and the little finger off my left hand. I got off light. We found my brother frozen at his watch, with a smile on his face."
Ser Waymar shrugged. "You ought dress more warmly, Gared."
Gared glared at the lordling, the scars around his ear holes flushed red with anger where Maester Aemon had cut the ears away. "We'll see how warm you can dress when the winter comes." He pulled up his hood and hunched over his garron, silent and sullen.
"If Gared said it was the cold..." Will began.
"Have you drawn any watches this past week, Will?"
"Yes, m'lord." There never was a week when he did not draw a dozen bloody watches. What was the man driving at?
"And how did you find the Wall?"
"Weeping," Will said, frowning. He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. "They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."
Royce nodded. "Bright lad. We've had a few light frosts this past week, and a quick flurry of snow now and then, but surely no cold fierce enough to kill eight grown men. Men clad in fur and leather, let me remind you, with shelter near at hand, and the means of making fire." The knight's smile was cocksure. "Will, lead us there. I would see these dead men for myself."
And then there was nothing to be done for it. The order had been given, and honor bound them to obey.
Will went in front, his shaggy little garron picking the way carefully through the undergrowth. A light snow had fallen the night before, and there were stones and roots and hidden sinks lying just under its crust, waiting for the careless and the unwary. Ser Waymar Royce came next, his great black destrier snorting impatiently. The warhorse was the wrong mount for ranging, but try and tell that to the lordling. Gared brought up the rear. The old man-at-arms muttered to himself as he rode.
Twilight deepened. The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black. The stars began to come out. A half-moon rose. Will was grateful for the light.
"We can make a better pace than this, surely," Royce said when the moon was full risen.
"Not with this horse," Will said. Fear had made him insolent. "Perhaps my lord would care to take the lead?"
Ser Waymar Royce did not deign to reply.
Somewhere off in the wood a wolf howled.
Will pulled his garron over beneath an ancient gnarled ironwood and dismounted.
"Why are you stopping?" Ser Waymar asked.
"Best go the rest of the way on foot, m'lord. It's just over that ridge."
Royce paused a moment, staring off into the distance, his face reflective. A cold wind whispered through the trees. His great sable cloak stirred behind like something half-alive.
"There's something wrong here," Gared muttered.
The young knight gave him a disdainful smile. "Is there?"
"Can't you feel it?" Gared asked. "Listen to the darkness."
Will could feel it. Four years in the Night's Watch, and he had never been so afraid. What was it?
"Wind. Trees rustling. A wolf. Which sound is it that unmans you so, Gared?" When Gared did not answer, Royce slid gracefully from his saddle. He tied the destrier securely to a low-hanging limb, well away from the other horses, and drew his longsword from its sheath. Jewels glittered in its hilt, and the moonlight ran down the shining steel. It was a splendid weapon, castle-forged, and new-made from the look of it. Will doubted it had ever been swung in anger.
"The trees press close here," Will warned. "That sword will tangle you up, m'lord. Better a knife."
"If I need instruction, I will ask for it," the young lord said. "Gared, stay here. Guard the horses."
Gared dismounted. "We need a fire. I'll see to it."
"How big a fool are you, old man? If there are enemies in this wood, a fire is the last thing we want."
"There's some enemies a fire will keep away," Gared said. "Bears and direwolves and...and other things..."
Ser Waymar's mouth became a hard line. "No fire."
Gared's hood shadowed his face, but Will could see the hard glitter in his eyes as he stared at the knight. For a moment he was afraid the older man would go for his sword. It was a short, ugly thing, its grip discolored by sweat, its edge nicked from hard use, but Will would not have given an iron bob for the lordling's life if Gared pulled it from its scabbard.
Finally Gared looked down. "No fire," he muttered, low under his breath.
Royce took it for acquiescence and turned away. "Lead on," he said to Will.
Will threaded their way through a thicket, then started up the slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree. Under the thin crust of snow, the ground was damp and muddy, slick footing, with rocks and hidden roots to trip you up. Will made no sound as he climbed. Behind him, he heard the soft metallic slither of the lordling's ringmail, the rustle of leaves, and muttered curses as reaching branches grabbed at his longsword and tugged on his splendid sable cloak.
The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground. Will slid in underneath, flat on his belly in the snow and the mud, and looked down on the empty clearing below.
His heart stopped in his chest. For a moment he dared not breathe. Moonlight shone down on the clearing, the ashes of the firepit, the snow-covered lean-to, the great rock, the little half-frozen stream. Everything was just as it had been a few hours ago.
They were gone. All the bodies were gone.
"Gods!" he heard behind him. A sword slashed at a branch as Ser Waymar Royce gained the ridge. He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.
"Get down!" Will whispered urgently. "Something's wrong."
Royce did not move. He looked down at the empty clearing and laughed. "Your dead men seem to have moved camp, Will."
Will's voice abandoned him. He groped for words that did not come. It was not possible. His eyes swept back and forth over the abandoned campsite, stopped on the axe. A huge double-bladed battle-axe, still lying where he had seen it last, untouched. A valuable weapon...
"On your feet, Will," Ser Waymar commanded. "There's no one here. I won't have you hiding under a bush."
Reluctantly, Will obeyed.
Ser Waymar looked him over with open disapproval. "I am not going back to Castle Black a failure on my first ranging. We will find these men." He glanced around. "Up the tree. Be quick about it. Look for a fire."
Will turned away, wordless. There was no use to argue. The wind was moving. It cut right through him. He went to the tree, a vaulting grey-green sentinel, and began to climb. Soon his hands were sticky with sap, and he was lost among the needles. Fear filled his gut like a meal he could not digest. He whispered a prayer to the nameless gods of the wood, and slipped his dirk free of its sheath. He put it between his teeth to keep both hands free for climbing. The taste of cold iron in his mouth gave him comfort.
Down below, the lordling called out suddenly, "Who goes there?" Will heard uncertainty in the challenge. He stopped climbing; he listened; he watched.
The woods gave answer: the rustle of leaves, the icy rush of the stream, a distant hoot of a snow owl.
The Others made no sound.
Will saw movement from the corner of his eye. Pale shapes gliding through the wood. He turned his head, glimpsed a white shadow in the darkness. Then it was gone. Branches stirred gently in the wind, scratching at one another with wooden fingers. Will opened his mouth to call down a warning, and the words seemed to freeze in his throat. Perhaps he was wrong. Perhaps it had only been a bird, a reflection on the snow, some trick of the moonlight. What had he seen, after all?
"Will, where are you?" Ser Waymar called up. "Can you see anything?" He was turning in a slow circle, suddenly wary, his sword in hand. He must have felt them, as Will felt them. There was nothing to see. "Answer me! Why is it so cold?"
It was cold. Shivering, Will clung more tightly to his perch. His face pressed hard against the trunk of the sentinel. He could feel the sweet, sticky sap on his cheek.
A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood. It stood in front of Royce. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep grey-green of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took.
Will heard the breath go out of Ser Waymar Royce in a long hiss. "Come no farther," the lordling warned. His voice cracked like a boy's. He threw the long sable cloak back over his shoulders, to free his arms for battle, and took his sword in both hands. The wind had stopped. It was very cold.
The Other slid forward on silent feet. In its hand was a longsword like none that Will had ever seen. No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor.
Ser Waymar met him bravely. "Dance with me then." He lifted his sword high over his head, defiant. His hands trembled from the weight of it, or perhaps from the cold. Yet in that moment, Will thought, he was a boy no longer, but a man of the Night's Watch.
The Other halted. Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice. They fixed on the longsword trembling on high, watched the moonlight running cold along the metal. For a heartbeat he dared to hope.
They emerged silently from the shadows, twins to the first. Three of them...four...five...Ser Waymar may have felt the cold that came with them, but he never saw them, never heard them. Will had to call out. It was his duty. And his death, if he did. He shivered, and hugged the tree, and kept the silence.
The pale sword came shivering through the air.
Ser Waymar met it with steel. When the blades met, there was no ring of metal on metal; only a high, thin sound at the edge of hearing, like an animal screaming in pain. Royce checked a second blow, and a third, then fell back a step. Another flurry of blows, and he fell back again.
Behind him, to right, to left, all around him, the watchers stood patient, faceless, silent, the shifting patterns of their delicate armor making them all but invisible in the wood. Yet they made no move to interfere.
Again and again the swords met, until Will wanted to cover his ears against the strange anguished keening of their clash. Ser Waymar was panting from the effort now, his breath steaming in the moonlight. His blade was white with frost; the Other's danced with pale blue light.
Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It steamed in the cold, and the droplets seemed red as fire where they touched the snow. Ser Waymar's fingers brushed his side. His moleskin glove came away soaked with red.
The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking.
Ser Waymar Royce found his fury. "For Robert!" he shouted, and he came up snarling, lifting the frost-covered longsword with both hands and swinging it around in a flat sidearm slash with all his weight behind it. The Other's parry was almost lazy.
When the blades touched, the steel shattered.
A scream echoed through the forest night, and the long sword shivered into a hundred brittle pieces, the shards scattering like a rain of needles. Royce went to his knees, shrieking, and covered his eyes. Blood welled between his fingers.
The watchers moved forward together, as if some signal had been given. Swords rose and fell, all in a deathly silence. It was cold butchery. The pale blades sliced through ringmail as if it were silk. Will closed his eyes. Far beneath him, he heard their voices and laughter sharp as icicles.
When he found the courage to look again, a long time had passed, and the ridge below was empty.
He stayed in the tree, scarce daring to breathe, while the moon crept slowly across the black sky. Finally, his muscles cramping and his fingers numb with cold, he climbed down.
Royce's body lay facedown in the snow, one arm outflung. The thick sable cloak had been slashed in a dozen places. Lying dead like that, you saw how young he was. A boy.
He found what was left of the sword a few feet away, the end splintered and twisted like a tree struck by lightning. Will knelt, looked around warily, and snatched it up. The broken sword would be his proof. Gared would know what to make of it, and if not him, then surely that old bear Mormont or Maester Aemon. Would Gared still be waiting with the horses? He had to hurry.
Will rose. Ser Waymar Royce stood over him.
His fine clothes were a tatter, his face a ruin. A shard from his sword transfixed the blind white pupil of his left eye.
The right eye was open. The pupil burned blue. It saw.
The broken sword fell from nerveless fingers. Will closed his eyes to pray. Long, elegant hands brushed his cheek, then tightened around his throat. They were gloved in the finest moleskin and sticky with blood, yet the touch was icy cold.
Copyright © 1996 by George R. R. Martin
Posted May 23, 2011
For anyone new to this series, whether you've just heard of it, or you've seen Game of Thrones on television, the first thing I would say is that these books are certainly not for children or the faint of heart. The violence is graphic and the sex (some would say) is pornographic. Rape is commonplace (often heard of, but rarely witnessed). A Song of Ice and Fire pulls no punches. It depicts a brutal world of treachery, murder, lust, and greed, in which even the good characters have to be ruthless if they wish to survive. Time Magazine has called Martin "the American Tolkien," but that is a superficial judgment. These books are nothing like Tolkien. Imagine the Sopranos in Middle Earth, and you'll get the picture.
And yet, as dark and twisted as these books are, they are compelling. No sooner did I finish one book than I started the next, and I am eager for the publication of "A Dance With Dragons" in July 2011. This is because Martin's greatest strengths are plot and character. He weaves his tale out of many threads. The perspective shifts from chapter to chapter, as his main characters take their turns at center stage in Dickensian profusion. Some of them know what the other characters are up to, some think they do, and some don't know much at all. But each advances the complex plot, driving the story and the reader forward.
There are two areas in particular where Martin does an excellent job. First, he is more ruthless to his characters than Steven King. No one is safe. No one. Second, almost all of his main characters are quite well rounded. They can surprise you. One character, for example, commits a horrific crime early in the series, and is known to have committed another. As the books go on and the portrait of his character develops, however, it becomes more difficult to pass a simple judgment because he begins taking actions the reader wants to admire him for. I had to keep reminding myself of what he had done before, and that, as someone says in one of the books, sins can be forgiven, but crimes must still be punished. The good guys aren't simply good, and the bad guys aren't simply bad.
All in all, a good, fun read, if you're up for it. There is no middle ground.
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Posted June 12, 2012
I truly am disgusted at about half of the reviews being written about this book. People are trying to compare the book to other books that it should most deffinitaly not be compared to; like The Lord of The Rings. Did you ever come across any elves, orcs, dwarves, or talking trees while reading this book? No, no, no, and no. A Game of Thrones is not the Lord of The Rings, its a 100% different story. And if you are not mature enough to handle the sex, incest, and rape of this book, then it is obviously not a book for you. Those of us who enjoy this book are not perverts who masturbate to the sex, thats not what its there for... though some of you seem to think so. A Game of Thrones is about corruption and the evilest of evils, and its not exactly full of happy endings. Will you be anxiously waiting for a character to get out of an impossible situation, only to find that they don't? Yes. Will many of your favorite characters be killed off without much warning? Yes. You will even find yourself wanting to kill a few of the characters yourself. The author does such a great job portraying the problems of the 7 kingdoms, that you actually feel like you want to fix them yourself. All that being said, this story is not a fantasy filled with gallant knights who always triumph over evil, it is a book where happy endings are hard to come by. But does all this evil make this a bad book? Quite the opposite. I greatly recommend this book to anyone who thinks they can handle it.
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Posted May 9, 2009
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Martin has created a masterpiece with this series.
Never have I read any novel of any genre with so many characters, all so brilliantly lifelike, believable and richly detailed. He doesn't introduce them too quickly, giving the reader time to get to know and love them, and as soon as a side is chosen, he takes us into the world of the opposing characters, and we come to love them equally!
The scope of the series is truly epic, and while this is technically fantasy, the reader may forget that it's not historical fiction! The style is so gritty and unforgiving that one has no choice but to believe. The fantastical elements creep in slowly and undeniably - a skeleton in a closet, terrifying and mostly unseen.
With character drama like this, you don't have to be a fantasy buff to love this series. All who like sweeping drama will enjoy this fantastic journey.
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Posted April 12, 2011
I work at a book store and tons of people have recommended this series to me. I finally decided to give it a chance-all I can say is...what the hell? The plot was boring and it was downright degrading to women. All of the characters were nasty and corrupt and there was not a single cause for the good in this book. It was an altogether depressing lot of characters. I will not read Martin again.
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Posted November 19, 2011
As a lifelong reader of fantasy books and committed enough to them to have a six-year-old daughter named Eowyn, I found this series a unique approach to the genre. Martin has crafted a world with depth surpassing that of Tolkien himself, but whether or not this is a virtue is a matter for individual readers to decide. GoT easily has four times the characters of Lord of the Rings, and readers will get bogged down in trying to keep them straight, remembering whether or not they've been encountered before, and caring enough about them to remember them the next time they surface. Furthermore, I wasn't too far into the series before I realized the Martin's books have no true protagonist. The main character, if there is one, is the realm itself. That became a problem for me. I want to root for a character as he struggles to overcome obstacles, injustices, and moral dilemmas. However, that's very difficult to do in GoT because a significant portion of the characters are inherently despicable, and there is no place in his world for the idealistic, loyal, or principled. Such characters in his books inevitably fall prey to machinations of the ruthless. If Martin were to craft a Looney Tunes story, the Roadrunner would have his legs broken, braised, and then fed to him piecemeal by the Coyote while Bugs Bunney was forced to watch. Sure, there do remain a few admirable characters five books into the series but one must empathize with them cautiously since Martin will undoubtedly kill them off eventually. I read about Martin's characters with a sort of learned detachment and too often I'm forced to read simply in order to find out what happens next and not because I particularly care about that specific storyline. Still, the series is enjoyable and some of the characters are amazing. You'll grow to love them, even though you'll sometimes fear to turn the next page.
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Posted March 29, 2011
Based on the high ratings of this book, I ventured into fantasy for the first time. I am an avid reader and read probably 50 books a year, mostly historical fiction (i.e. Diana Gabaldon, James Mitchener) and adventure (i.e. James Rollins and Harlen Coben) In all fairness, I have to say I didn't even finish this book. I read to relax and lose myself in a story. This book made me feel like I needed to be taking notes the many many characters, lineage, places, non-humans, etc..I just can't enjoy a book when I feel like I need to go back to remember who was who and what they did and who they're married to, etc... Plus reading the gruesome details of rape and murder in just about every chapter is disturbing. I think the author is a disturbed individual.
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Posted April 30, 2012
I'm only giving this book 1 star because that is the lowest score possible. I'm sorry, but this book is horrible! I've heard so many people rave about it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Let me see if I can sum it up: foul language, death, beheading, more foul language, incest, murder in the middle of an orgy, rape of a minor, more foul language, more incest, attempted murder of a child who witnessed incest, loving family torn apart, additional foul language, some boring history about the kingdoms that is pretty much useless info, rape of a minor again, still more foul language, innocent beloved pet killed, lots of animal slaughter, idealic dreams shattered, more murder, and more foul language, all described in graphic and appalling detail. Did I miss anything? Oh yes, more deceit and betrayal than you can wrap your head around. Plus, the style in which is written makes the story, such as it is, beyond confusing. The book jumps from character to character and from storyline to storyline with each chapter and with no continuity whatsoever. You never know who or what you'll be reading about next. That type of writing works when shown on TV or in movies, but not in books. (Hmmm...was someone ambitious and looking towards the future as he wrote? Admittedly, the TV series DOES make more sense, but then you actually have to WATCH everything written above.) There are way too many characters with weird names and places and plot lines to keep straight. And for the love of the gods, why can't this man spell any words like normal?! For example, "Sir" is "Ser", and "Master" is "Maester". Misspelled words does not a fantasy novel make! Which, by the way, I'm not seeing much fantasy here. Okay, there are some zombie-like creatures that pop up here and there, and there's a little bit about dragons at the end, but that's it. The direwolves are big and smart, but not enough to really be considered fantasy. There are no wizards, no spells, no non-human races, other fantastical creatures, or anything else you'd associate with fantasy books. I read a lot, averaging 40-50 books a year, almost all fantasy or historical fiction. Typically, I can't put a book down until I'm barely awake, and even then I don't stop until I get to a good stopping point, like the end of a chapter. With this book, I repeatedly found myself reading the same few sentences over and over again because my mind kept wandering to other things, like what errands I needed to run or what I was making for dinner. I never read to exhaustion, but rather would stop in the middle of a sentence and think, "That's enough. I can't take anymore right now." Stopping at the end of a chapter or the middle of a sentence was essentially the same thing. You're confused and can't remember anything when you pick it back up anyway. I forced myself to finish the book, and I even forced myself to start the second one. But I got 260 pages into the second one and couldn't take it anymore. I have serious doubts about the mental health of the author, and I absolutely cannot see how anyone could not be sickened by this filth. Do yourself a favor: save your time and money and SKIP this awful series!
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Posted June 7, 2011
Want to buy this series but not gonna pay extra to get it on my nook. Doesn't barnes and noble understand ebooks should be cheaper. Might just return my nook and get an ipad. It will be the same price in the long run to not have to buy from only bn ebooks
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Posted December 6, 2002
Let me start by saying if you like plot twists and EVIL evil doers then is a good story. but if you like to see heros and hero quests and trials then this book fails miserably. I am really into fantasy and enjoy stories of characters rising over their opositions but in a game of thrones its not about succeeding over your advisary but being totally crushed by him. I am almost finished with this book and thinking back not once has a "good" guy won. if you like seeing evil characters kick the **** out of everying good in the world then this book is for you. but if you want to see good guys rise above once...just once.. you are going to have to keep looking.
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I loved reading this book. It has a story that is original and keeps you entertained for hours.
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Posted May 23, 2011
Intriguing... addictive... leaves you wanting MORE!!! Many unexpected twists, mysterious happenings, and counterplots. Highly recommended, yet not for the faint of heart.
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I enjoyed reading this wonderful book. The characters are well developed, the plot fascinating. I can only recommend this one.
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I never considered myself an admirer of the whole Fantasy genre. There was always a fine line I would never cross over. However, I think I stumbled onto something very special with A Game of Thrones and the whole A Song of Ice and Fire series. I was pleasantly surprised with this work. Never have I read a book where the chapters are separated into individual characters points of view, centered around that one character and their whole environment-it was very refreshing and brilliant of the author. I have found a little patience is asked of the potential reader when first entering the world of the Seven Kingdoms. The separate chapters and introductions of key characters may seem never ending, but with some interest and an open "trusting" mind follow Mr. Martin into his ever growing epic. However, if you find yourself completely lost with keeping which characters are "direwolf", "lion", or "stag"--flip to the back of the books and discover complete lists of houses, families, alliances, brief descriptions (believe me it will serve the new reader well to reintroduce themselves after finishing one book and moving onto the next).
In A Game of Thrones, I overall adored the plot and was fascinated with the research that paid homage to medieval elements: the weapons, clothing, feudal system, battle scenes, war tactics, geography etc. It all just flowed beautifully where you believed you entered into a realistic world with minute touches of whimsy. I am happy, relieved and thankful to report to any interested readers that there were no to a few cliché fantasy characters/species. A Game of Thrones (as well as the whole series) is full of betrayal, adventure, drama, mystery, and classic revenge. I found myself gasping when thrilling and dismal surprises touched heroes and villians alike. Throughout the novel(s) the evidence of "grey" characters was an unexpected change from the usual light and dark personalities. The reader will also find that Mr. Martin has a talent to capture and bottle the element of foreshadowing (every "symbol" has a meaning that will resurface with a flash as the reader progresses into the ever growing plot). The only part(s) in this book (and series) that keeps it becoming a solid 5 star rating (for me) are the graphic sex sections and modern vulgar language. At first, I tried to remember history/ancient beliefs, human conditioning from the Medieval stand point and the warped entertainment expectations of today (sadly, sex sells). All of the needless scenes and language all seemed to sum back to something that unfortunately had to be there to push the realism and sell the product. Realism and product marketing aside, I must confess after awhile the graphic scenes and cussing (that seemed to come out of nowhere) started to wear on me and I desperately wished them gone from my vivid imagination. All negative aspects aside, I am very happy I stumbled upon this series and highly recommend for those readers who wish to escape from the stereotype of "fantasy".
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Posted May 31, 2011
I cant get enough. Absolutely wonderful
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Posted March 29, 2012
It disgusts me how many people can give a good rating to such a piece of trash that degrades women and enforces the ideas that rape and pedophilia are what make good literature. Honestly, with the lack of focus or real plot, as well as the disgusting acts of it's characters, it givesvthe impression that it was written by a sociopath.
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Posted June 8, 2011
I only was able to get into this book about 100 pages before I was too depressed to go any further. I had high hopes since this looks to be a long series I could have read for a long time. I know things need to be set early in this sort of epic novel but this was just too heavy. There didn't appear to be anything beautiful or noble for the protagonists to work for. Very disappointing!
Spoiler alert--don't read any further if you actually intend to read this book and series--one lady goes crazy, a kid falls off the roof (was actually pushed) and is paralyzed, and the nicest wolf is killed by the girl's father, death, death, death and no end in sight.
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Posted May 31, 2011
I cannot put these books down! The characters are fantastic and the settings take your imagination to unthinkable places. This is my first "Fantasy" Series I am mostly into Bio's but as I said before I cannot put them down.
The first few chapters of the Game of Thrones was alittle slow but get past that and you wont regret it.
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Posted May 30, 2011
I first read this book long before it became an HBO series and loved it back then. Now, I am so far pleasantly surprised with the series and have started re-reading the books. I just hope this motivates the release of the latest book in the series- A Dance With Dragons! A must read. My favorite high fantasy series to date!
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Posted July 13, 2013
Absolutely fantastic historical fiction. I enjoy that it is written from the perspectives of multiple characters, and that the action is so intense. I once had to put this book aside for a week because I had to recover from my shock & outrage at what happened to one of the characters...now that's some good writing!!
This series is definitely not for readers who want clearly-defined heroes and villains, as the GoT characters are much too complex for that. Nor is it for those who want to think that the medieval world was full of honorable lords and knights, fair maidens and well-fed, well-cared for peasants rather than one of ruthless and prevalent violence werein those with power and titles took advantage of their positions (ever hear of Henry VIII?). Our modern-day ideas of civil rights, equality, justice, even basic human rights were non-existent, and Martin works within those realistic parameters.
The unexpectedness of events is what I love and hate most about this series. You cannot hope to predict what's going to happen next, and what does happen may break your heart and leave you re-reading the page just to be sure that that actually just happened. This, to me, is keeping it real, and makes for some of the most exciting reading ever.
If you can leave your modern-day sensibilities at the door, NOT compare this to any other fantasy series you may have read before, and immerse yourself entirely into the Game, you will thoroughly enjoy this book and the complete series.
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Posted January 23, 2013
This book felt like it had potential to do cool things, it really did. Both times I started, it did. But after really struggling and plodding through to a point where I just couldn't keep going, I have to conclude that this just isn't the book for me.
Though I did get 100pgs further than last time. So big ol' pat on the back for me with that.
So, about what I did read..
I hated the characters. They were either flat and boring without any distinguishable traits that were endearing, or they were overdone and predictable. The plot itself is rather convoluted, which doesn't help with boring characters, since it provides no sense of definition, but there was no urgency, no sense of originality.
A patriarchal setting where woman are sold, traded, and treated like second-class citizens is not original, nor it is compelling. Much of the compulsions for the characters and their roles are gender-driven, especially the females, and that creates a very limited sense of power within the plot; women are defined as strong when acting inside their realm of womanhood in spite of the restrictions, or if they act like a man and run around with swords. There is no sense of a character's ability to stand on their own without their gender being applied; switch characters around to opposite genders and the characters would no longer have dynamics that set them apart as being noteworthy. In fact, doing so would create a very jumbled, awkward plot that no longer made sense. Which means the characters don't stand out in their own right, and that's just lazy.
And I get that Martin was trying to create a world like medievil England. Cool, fine, whatever, but if he wanted to write historical fiction, he could have done the same thing. This is fantasy. Characters can be kick-ass all on their own in whatever world he wanted them to inhabit. He isn't being "historically accurate"; it's his world, and he's making his characters act within whatever confine he enjoys. Relying on old trite gender-driven dynamics is just.. Boring. People who claim this is original stuff clearly haven't read much in the way of actual history.
Also, the idea that women are going to be sold off into whatever realm someone else wants them to be in, but then be fine with the sex because oh, the dude is big, bad and has magical hands that make her want to have sex and enjoy it is crap. I hated that portrayal, and all of it's unrealistic implications on romance/sex/women/men and the power within those actions. No, no, no.
Shelving this one.
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US Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc plans to expand its footprint in new markets by revamping its international e-commerce platform, a media report said today.
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The move underlines the increasing globalisation of online retailing, with companies such as Walmart, the world's largest retailer by sales, and US clothing retailer Gap looking to use e-commerce sites and cross-border shipping to reach a wider audience.
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Djokovic Battles Past Simon To Begin Career Golden Masters Bid
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World No. 1 Novak Djokovic opened his bid for the Career Golden Masters by overcoming Frenchman Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in a second-round battle, Tuesday night at the Western & Southern Open.
"I think I did well for the most of the match," he said. "End of the second, start of the third wasn't that great, but I try to take positives from every match. I know I'm not playing at the level yet where I want to be and it's obvious, but I keep on pushing myself.
"Every day is a new challenge to try to look out for a better game tomorrow and after tomorrow, and hopefully it's going to come."
The top-seeded Serbian, who had fought past Gael Monfils before losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga last week in Toronto, fell behind an early break against his third straight French opponent. He quickly reversed the momentum, reeling off four straight games to claim the opening set in 29 minutes.
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Djokovic broke for a 2-1 lead in the second set before Simon made a late charge to extend the match. He got back on serve at 4-all, and capitalised on his second set point in Djokovic's next service game.
Simon saved six break points to start the decisive set, but lost serve on Djokovic's next opportunity to fall behind 3-4. Djokovic saved Simon's break point chance in the eighth game, and after waiting out a brief delay due to rain, served out his eighth straight victory over the Frenchman. He improved to an 8-1 mark in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.
"His lateral movement behind the baseline is very good," said Djokovic. "He's making players play an extra shot, so try to mix it up, change the pace, get the right angle.
"Was working quite well, and then suddenly I start making unforced errors and backed up a little bit and he started dominating the rallies. Then it was a pretty even third set up to the end. But again, it's a fight. I'm just glad I managed to win this one."
Djokovic is attempting to win his first Cincinnati title after four runner-up finishes. Should he triumph this week, he would become the first singles player to complete the career sweep of all nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournaments. In his first attempt at the Golden Masters last year, he lost to American John Isner in the quarter-finals.
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If NYC, London and Milan Fall 2014 collections are a yardstick to go by then Fall 2014 is all about the orange palette. Burnt orange, flickering flashes of rust, fruity tones and soothing ombré — this colour has dazzled the ramps at Narciso Rodriguez, Franceso Scognamiglio, Preen, Betsy Johnson, Giles Deacon, Alberta Feretti and Zac Posen. After Hrs spoke to Indian designers if this Indian staple will be a major trend in the domestic scenario too.
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Designer Nikhil Thampi says, "This year orange has broken the stereotypical rules on the runway. Orange as a colour has allowed for experimentation with new looks and combinations this Fall season. From strong bold statements to soft feminine looks, its versatile tones make it an ideal pick for Fall 2014."
Big in India as well?
"For sure, though not many people own orange as a colour, however, if you mix saturated colours but stick to the same tonal family such as red for instance, it's a fabulous recipe for a great look. The uniqueness of this colour is that it ranges from sophisticated to lively and fun and can add that particular element that's been missing from ones wardrobe," adds Thampi.
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Designer Varun Bahl adds, "Bright colours do seem to be the trend this year. Red and shades of orange are going to be strong this season. These colours have always been strong in India, rather internationally it has been adopted from our palette."
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Asmita Aggarwal, fashion columnist says, "The love affair with tangerine has continued the world over for a little over a year. Maybe it is due to the vibrancy the hue brings along with it. Internationally the colour is big, it represents growth and vivacity. It is a hue that will linger on like a fragrant memory on global catwalks. It will again be seen in India, as we as a nation love everything bright and beautiful; fruity colours are making a swift comeback. I do not think India works according to seasons, unlike the West. So there is always an overlap of themes and references."
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Olympic charter specifically says that its Winter Games events should happen in conjunction with snow and ice.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman wasn't aware of that when he once asked Juan Antonio Samaranch, formerly the head of the International Olympic Committee, if hockey could be included in the summer Games.
"I didn't get to finish the sentence," Bettman said Thursday.
Now the concept of NHL players in the Olympics, a phenomenon that has lifted the hockey competition from an occasional Miracle to nightly magic, is also hanging out there like a dead participle.
With the next Winter Games slated for the Russian resort of Sochi in 2014, there is no guarantee, and maybe not much chance, that the pros will play.
Well, at least one will. Alex Ovechkin has already informed the world and his Washington Capitals employers that he will be in Sochi, consequences aside. Presumably other Russian NHL players will join him.
Bettman preferred to push the issue into the sideboards because, after all, the tournament that Canada coach Mike Babcock called "maybe the best of all-time" has barely started.
"It doesn't mean we're going to go, it doesn't mean we're not going to go," the commissioner said. "We have plenty of time. The IOC hasn't even awarded the broadcasting rights yet.
"At Torino (in 2006) we basically went at the last minute. We were just coming off our lockout and we didn't know what we were going to do. So it isn't timely. We need to debrief and make it better and figure out what makes sense."
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What doesn't make sense, from the standpoint of excellence and the pursuit of it, is to turn the Games back over to North American amateurs and European professionals.
The NHL Olympic experiment is a stupendous hit. There have been six semifinalists in the three competitions. By chance, all those rematches will happen here Sunday: Canada-U.S., Finland-Sweden and the Czech Republic-Russia.
There also have been seismic upsets, like Switzerland over Canada in 2006 and Belarus over Sweden in 2002. There have been huge contributions from the Euro pros, like Dominik Hasek's helpers on the victorious Czech team in 1998, and there has been controversy and raw emotion.
Do we really want a return to pre-1998, when the U.S. kept fumbling its chance to re-create Lake Placid? Do we really want amateur coaches who squirm under the worldwide glare, and college players who should be developing themselves in 2,000-seat rinks?
It's up to Bettman and the players, and their collective bargaining agreement is done after the 2011 NHL season.


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