yakalskovich | Game of Thrones

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Just now, a UPS guy bearing a heavier-than-expected package toppled over my threshold and almost fell into my entrance area. It was an unusually large package from Amazon, and it contained a doorstopper, which you can see on this picture (while the cats are making short work of the leftover milk from my bran flakes, as usual).

Yep, I caved and bought the books after all. They were only 20 Euros, in a box with Ned Stark on the one side, Daenerys on the other. I thought that was worth it.

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Oh what fun! And what a bargain!

Happy reading.

Heh.

Thanks! I'm not yet decided whether I'll just start reading right away, or do what

athousanderrors is doing and wait for the end of the first series on TV (only three more episodes, after all) so I won't be spoilered for that, and then read the books.

I actually am doing the TV series first and then the books. I did that with Pillars of the Earth and wound up loving the series. It's been my experience that if I read the books first, I hate the movie rendition. I always have an idea of what the film should be like in my head (I essentially create the scenes for film while I am reading -- quirky, and invariably I am disappointed.

The only exception to that rule has been Harry Potter because I accepted them as children's books and was determined to like them.

We can do a read-a-long of Song of Ice and Fire when the series finishes?

Oh, absolutely, that sounds like a brilliant idea. We can make a comm and invite Scot!Jen (who plans to do the same) along, and then read it and chat about it while we do...

YAY! I did a read-a-long for all the HP books and then for Carlos Ruiz Zafon's other works (non- Shadow of the Wind) and it was so much fun.

:D

It'll be fun, yes!

I'd recommend, at this point, finishing the series and then starting the books. I see a read-along is being planned post-series, which would be absolutely awesome.

Yes -- you'll be welcome to watch that, too!

Ha ha! welcome to the dark side. and i'm glad its not just me who lets my cats get away with murder.

It's not murder, it's just breakfast. Because cats can get tummy upsets from milk, especially cold milk, I thin it with hot tea. They get that almost every morning while I have my breakfast, and never get any problems with their digestion.-

The cats have the right attitude! :D

Mine are assorted shapes and sizes because I have picked them up over the years at book sales (just never read them -- I have several shelves in that category), but I do like the nice, neat look of a proper set.

Enjoy!

Well, I wouldn't have gone for the matching look, but it was a good bargain.

And the cats find the milk more important than the books which they can't read, because they're cats.

**grins**

I foster feral and homeless cats and they NEVER drink milk! I can get the kittens to drink the formula (and actually the cats like that too), but milk? They just look confused.

Well, mine are different. They both drink milk (warmed and thinned with a bit of tea) almost every morning when we have breakfast together, sort of thing.

They are admittedly a bit odd; also, they're brothers (same mum, different litters) born in the stables a colleague of mine keeps with her partner somewhere in the wilderness beyond the Rimfall, where Bavaria is really Bavarian. Who knows what kind of woodsy or even Austrian ancestors might have been in that line...

Ah! Austrian.

It just goes to show that cultural relativism exists even in the feline species.

Mine would never condescend to have breakfast with me. The only time they are affectionate is when I am making chicken soup -- at which point, everybody loves me. :)

Well, you foster the cats; you're not their permanent human. Mine are quite affectionate -- Lucifer (the big red one) is usually lying with his back against me part of every evening, and Mephisto cuddles up to him. It's how we work, rank-wise -- Lucifer is my cat, and Mephisto is Lucifer's little brother. It means that he raised him from a nine-week-old kitten, trained and disciplined him, without me having to do much work, too.

This is true. I tried to catch one of the kittens yesterday (I have actually been able to get close enough to stroke its head while it eats) and he tore me up so badly, I almost had to get stitches. They aren't just feral - they are Siamese, inbred and feral!

Nasty combination.

Ow. That sounds hurtful.-

K, I am making Tex-Mex right now (type of food) --

my cat is eating avocado.

???

Oh how strange!! I know about dogs eating more or less everything, but cats are usually pickier...

Must be a cultural thing...

:)

Probably. Cats do seem to do cultural at times, as we already found à propos suspicions of Austrian-ness...

**grins**

I can hear you, you know!!!!

You can!

Do you think Austrian cats are culturally different? In ways that might explain for the comparative strangeness of mine?

Or do you think that's all due to Bavarian hillbilly weirdness?

I'm told it's nearly the same country. And of course you know as every babe that all normal cats crave milk, belly ache or not. But mine as you know likes all long thing things and crunchy vegetation, hence capsicums, asparagus peel, etc. I just got a tumblr and posted into the void that "late today for work was -i- / had to catch my cat a fly".

It's still WORRYSOME that you conduct cat nationalism ;P snakes and bears, that seem to roam towns and woods, not that I might have understood - you killer cucumber panderer!

I'm constantly being told that the countries are totally different... **grins**

I was really sorry about the bear, by the way. We get one bear back after a hundred years or so without them, and what do people do? The ruling Amigo Party creates a panic and then allows some well-chosen cronies to kill the poor beast. I found that really shameful and haven't yet been to the museum where they show off his stuffed hide.

As for the killer cucumbers, that's Hamburg. With which I have nothing to do. That reminds me, I forgot to ask my folks if they really still plan to go to killer cucumber country for holidays in less than a month's time. I think it might a bit dangerous, and if one of them had an accident, all the intensive care wards might still be full up with killer cucumber victims and have no capacities free for them...

What is your tumblr?

Yeah, mostly by my colleague despite him being constantly surprised why i'm -not- like "all the other of your kind".

Yeah, shame, same as always.

Actually it wasn't the cucumbers at all, they don't know what, last suspect is banana, so I bought two.

That word that Dave McKean prefers to apocalypse and I keep forgetting, though my non-URL name is same as here, -inbetween-

Sorry, that doesn't turn up anything for me.

Bananas? But that makes no sense as to why mostly in Hamburg. They don't grow bananas in Hamburg, and that outbreak is mostly localised, so it's something that's either been grown there or a delivery of something that's gone into the food chain there. As for bananas, you don't even eat their peels, so external contamination wouldn't be all that bad...

Yeah, but it's no worse than my colleague smilingly (you never know) telling me that in his country/our employer, three small boys died in one area at the same time, and Germans love to holiday there. The only "good" news there is that it might not be Ebola but extremely bad hygene in his hospitals. Why not speculate it's the pharma companies again? A new one each year! First cows then birds then pigs and finally they snapped and created killer VEGETABLES. As mad as this sounds, I'd not put it past them. Though mostly the juxtaposition of killer and vegetable is funny.

I'll be really curious to hear what you think of them and that's an incredibly good deal.

I just suggested making a comm for the reading of the books after the series is finished, because now, we're already three of us planning to do that.-

Oh that sounds interesting. I have no desire to read these books again but I love discussions about books.

There's also a reread or maybe just a read, I forget which on tor.com that you might want to look at when you start them.

Well, you can join the comm if/when I make it and be along for the discussion?

You can also post it to a Hunger Games comm and see if there are any takers there?

I know quite a few people watching who have yet to read the books.

I think I'll make the comm when the series is over, and then the people who are interested can link to it from their LJs, and then we start?

Perfect. We start after the series is over, eh?

Exactly!

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