Fender Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 I have never read any book(s) three times in a row. I have never joined a forum to discuss any books. I have never felt less intelligent than I have since joining the forum.Yesterday, at the grocery store, I saw a man in his fifties with unnaturally light blond hair ( from a box?) and I immediately wondered, blood of Old Valyria? So I sidled up next to him by the lettuce and checked out the colour of his eyes. Not violet, just hazel. No secret Targ. I wanted to say something like "Valar Morghulis" to see if he would respond in kind, but he was already backing away nervously.Maybe we, of the fandom, should invent a secret sign (like the Freemasons) so that we can identify ourselves to each other.I vote for pinching our noses and making monkey sounds. Or even better, pinching the other person's nose and making monkey sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhaquentis Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Like most, I say: "Oh gods" and "It is known" and I keep trying to get people to read the books and watch the show. So basically it made me a bit of a nuisance to others. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waters Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 These books reduced my chances of getting married (and I didn't have good chances before, so....)It's nice to see I'm not the only one with other language (=not English) as native that uses the phrases! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fender Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 These books reduced my chances of getting married (and I didn't have good chances before, so....)It's nice to see I'm not the only one with other language (=not English) as native that uses the phrases!You know, you could make a thread in this forum to find someone else who's a fan of the series and looking for a date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourIre Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 GEORGE RUINED ME; I'll never think any other set of books has anything on ASOIAF. I continue to compare them to other novels and reamin competely and utterly dissatisfied.A suitable analogy would be having a perfect girlfriend for 2 weeks then her getting hit by a bus after ADwD. After a period of time you start dating again (reading other books) and no other girl, I mean book compares...sigh　I've noticed other things aswell.-I don't take people at face value about anything anymore. I Adopted a sort of "i'll assume your lying until proven otherwise" way of thinking.　-I'm more paraniod than I was previously, and pay a fair amount of attention to my surroundings. Less into doing teenager related activities (18)　-When the moment is right & appropriate I glance sideways at said person and reply, "it is known."　-Sometimes at work my mind goes into this dreamcloud when I'm thinking about something from ASOIAF.　-I've developed something of a nervous twitch, waiting for TWoW.　- I always think "what would Tyrion do" which is disconcerting..cause, as far as I know, Tyrion would rape a bitch.　- Had to stop reading fantasy, as I find it all reads the same as garbage to ASIOAF.　-I keep telling people who watch the show to read the books. Like, what the hell is wrong with you people, seriously(?)Tons of other things too. Mostly the many word expressions from the books/show@Team Dragonstone. A tattoo of Stannis's Lord of Light sigil? OMG NOW I WANT ONE . I may get the Sun & Spear of Dorne on the back of my neck. Not gonna get too hasty though :D__________________________________________________Comic Sans. Get at me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Regent Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 'It is known' is now part of my vocabulary, as well as 'gods be good' and 'seven bloody hells'Also I usually describe bad things as dark and full of terrors.Me too! Those are all part of my vocabulary and no one around me gets it because I know very few people into the series. I do try to convince anyone and everyone I know to either watch it on HBO or read the books, have even offered to lend them mine... but no takers so far!Oh and I am in love with the innatthecrossroads site and really really want to go to the Pensic Wars, but I highly doubt my lovely husband would go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Regent Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Oh and last night I totally had a dream with the Khaleesi in it :cool4: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StannisBamfatheon Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 My favorite over dramatic "NOOOOO!!!!" has gone from Darth Vader at the end of Revenge of the Sith to Stannis Baratheon at the end of Blackwater.Additionally joining this board has forced me to inform my mother I can't go to dinner because someone is wrong on the internet about 40% more than usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Joker Of FunLand Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I walk around with a cloak and a sword and call myself Ser Derek Of Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studlymuffin Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I walk around with a cloak and a sword and call myself Ser Derek Of Canada.Oh, is that not normal? I did that before I read the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordAlexOfTheWolds Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 If I meet any real life 'Freys' I have a line to use about their offspring...Being from the North of England, 'The North Remembers' is frequent, as is 'you know nothing' and 'it is known'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Wedding Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I now know that I can react physically to something I read. I felt sad before when reading a particularly sad scene, I've even cried at one point or two but I've never felt sick and shaky from something I've READ. Never before and never since. I don't trust main characters in books and TV anymore. Even if it's from the POV of a 5 year old girl it's her who I suspect of having killed and raped her 80 year old grandmother.Plus (and this one's from the show), whenever I can't find my glasses, my book, my keys or anything, I start screaming like Dany. "WHERE ARE MY GLASSES?!?!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxony Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I think how lucky I am to have electricity and novacaine.I think about what if civilzation falls and we suddenly have to live in a world without those things.... the need to create warmth, the need to catch food and appreciate a broth of onions with a carrot and potato in it, the need to dig latreens and have weapons.Working in customer service I can appreciate the importance of arming yourself against enemies if the time should come - society is becoming more and more nasty and judgmental by leaps and bounds. I think about forming factions - like the peeps in my neighborhood would form our 'army'....Those are the things I think about.... :frown5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blade of Winterfell Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I try to figure out what family mine would be sworn to in my area, and which would be sworn to us, that sort of thing, and compare my friends to characters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Ragnar Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 My favorite over dramatic "NOOOOO!!!!" has gone from Darth Vader at the end of Revenge of the Sith to Stannis Baratheon at the end of Blackwater.Additionally joining this board has forced me to inform my mother I can't go to dinner because someone is wrong on the internet about 40% more than usual.Don't feel bad. While reading the series the first time I neglected my family and friends for several weeks.As for "ruined my life", I find myself quoting funny remarks and sayings. Like "It is known" or even "Valar Morghulis". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freerider Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I have never read any book(s) three times in a row. I have never joined a forum to discuss any books. I have never felt less intelligent than I have since joining the forum.Yesterday, at the grocery store, I saw a man in his fifties with unnaturally light blond hair ( from a box?) and I immediately wondered, blood of Old Valyria? So I sidled up next to him by the lettuce and checked out the colour of his eyes. Not purple, just hazel. No secret Targ. I wanted to say something like "Valar Morghulis" to see if he would respond in kind, but he was already backing away nervously.Maybe we, of the fandom, should invent a secret sign (like the Freemasons) so that we can identify ourselves to each other.sounds good to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarandor Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 The books have definitely changed the way I look at literature, and I find the books have almost made me a tad cynical. Whereas I used to be a hopeless romantic (very Sansa-ish) I am not much of that sort. Whereas I used to ship characters in other books I've read, I am doing that less, much less, if at all. Love and happy endings, they seem so unrealistic.As far as vocabulary... Winter is Coming is always a frontrunner, even in May. I find myself saying Words are Wind, especially to liars...I've even let out a few "If it please you..." Sometimes certain words come out of my mouth with an accent---though I attribute that to watching nothing but Channel 4 shows on Netflix... The Book Group, Spaced...Black Books, though I'm not sure that's Channel 4. ANYWAY. I wish someone would tell me I was "Kissed by Fire", it may not be natural, but certainly looks it. I hate to disappoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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