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[kcf]

So, has anyone read it?

I just got a review copy in the mail today. While I enjoy satire, mockery and the like, I don't really have any desire to read this one. But I'd love to hear the thoughts of any on this board who have.

[BLU-RAY]

I skimmed a little bit of it in a bookstore yesterday. I was... not amused.  Maybe if I gave it a more serious read, I'd laugh, but somehow I doubt it.  The writer came off as someone who mistakenly thought they were hilarious.

[RedEyedGhost]

Graeme couldn't finish it.

[pat5150]

I also received it, but haven't flipped through it yet...

Patrick

[BLU-RAY]

Glad it wasn't just me, REG.  The blurb in your link? The whole fucking thing reads exactly like that.

[Myshkin]

Ah these type of fantasy parodies usually suck.  The only good ones I've ever found are the Goodkind parodies.  Probably because they were written by fucking geniuses.

[Arbor Goldson]

DVD ROTS, on 11 April 2012 - 10:00 PM, said:

Glad it wasn't just me, REG.  The blurb in your link? The whole fucking thing reads exactly like that.

Jesus Christ.  How does this get published?  That blurb reads like the rejected first draft of Your Highness.

[BLU-RAY]

I assumed it was self-published; but then, how did it work its way into a B&N?

[Roose Bolton's Pet Leech]

Myshkin, on 11 April 2012 - 10:05 PM, said:

Ah these type of fantasy parodies usually suck.  The only good ones I've ever found are the Goodkind parodies.  Probably because they were written by fucking geniuses.

To be fair, Goodkind is a self-parody.

[kcf]

DVD ROTS, on 11 April 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:

I assumed it was self-published; but then, how did it work its way into a B&N?

Not selfpublished. Published by Virgin Books. Maybe not the biggest player out there, but still a traditional publisher.

[Happy Ent]

There are probably more laughs in a single page of “If ASOIAF were written by …”  thread on this board.

[GoodGuyA]

Happy Ent, on 12 April 2012 - 10:45 AM, said:

There are probably more laughs in a single page of “If ASOIAF were written by …”  thread on this board.

Dammit! Now I can't stop reading!

http://asoiaf.wester...-other-authors/

[SkynJay]

I don't even have to pick this up to know how it goes.  A few sample passages.

"Ned Shark swam through the frozen moat at Wintershell while waiting for King Robert the Fat to arrive"

"Jaimie was going to go hunting with the boys, but Cersei incested  he stay."

Note:  These are not real passages, just my assumption on how the whole book will be.

Edited by SkynJay, 12 April 2012 - 08:26 PM.

[jagilki]

This is really a thing?

[Greybeard]

jagilki, on 13 April 2012 - 07:20 AM, said:

This is really a thing?

Unfortunately, yes. It's just the latest manifestation of a sub-genre that started (and probably should have ended) with The Harvard Lampoon's Bored Of The Rings. Every so often, someone reads Bored, finds it really amusing and then thinks that they can toss off a parody of another well-known work, in a similar style.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/The_Soddit (subtitled Let's cash In Again, which says it all really! )
http://en.wikipedia....riter)#Parodies
http://www.barrytrotter.com/

[Arthmail]

AHHHH. And people with real writing talent have a hard time getting published? Fuck, cats and dogs living together, the province of Alberta is going to go even more right wing in todays election, and i've started nodding my head in agreement to some of the stuff that Sci says. Shitballs man, this is all starting to swirl the drain.