I made a comm again, and you're invited!

[yakalskovich]

"I'll wait with the books until the show is finished," I said, and several people agreed with me in various threads.

Now the show is done (OMG where do I start the squeeing and flailing?) for the season, and I'll be starting to read the books on July 1st 2011.

So, I made a comm named thronathon* for everybody who wants to go on this journey with me,  to discuss and squee and flail and speculate and generally share as we go along. Anybody who's reading SoIaF now after the show is done is welcome, but the default for discussion is 'knows the show, hasn't read the books yet but is doing so as we speak'.

Spoilers will abound, but speculations that have been disproven by the later books will be welcome because we talk as we go along. People who have read the books, or are re-reading them, are welcome to snicker along as we slowly lose more and more of a set of illusions and innocence we didn't even think we still had. People who read the books without having seen the show are welcome as well, but must brace for spoilers -- the default comm member will know what the ninth and tenth episode ended with, and think about foreshadowing etc. along those lines.

We'll all read at our own pace**, so I guess we'll just make posts for chapters and then chime in as we reach that point.

Who'll be with me?


* Kudos to _inbetween for coming up with the name!

** I, for example, have two times twenty minutes set aside on every workday when I NEED to read because I'll be sitting in the train to and from work, and having seen the same scenery pass by for almost eleven years now, I need a book to stave off the fatal boredom around the Miserable Village where I work.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

You nearly made me join, but not having seen the show either (and lacking even 20 min) I watch you frollick from afar.

[yakalskovich]

You can join, of course you can! You will just have to live with spoilers, and the occasional discussion of 'why do you think they did this differently in the show'?

[athousanderrors.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely up for that! I haven't seen the last episode yet, though, and won't do until Friday or Saturday because I promised I'd wait until t'boy is back from Perth. :(

[yakalskovich]

I'm not starting to read until Friday week, so that fits!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Sounds great! I already put in my request.

I'm doing my own marathon read and am about halfway through book 2, but that doesn't mean I can't backtrack and comment on older chapters.

[yakalskovich]

Yes, that's totally feasible! Added you already.

[ceitfianna]

I'll join. Its been a while since I read the books so I'll be curious to see what I remember about them.

[yakalskovich]

Yay! Welcome!

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

Here I am! *dire wolf tail thumping*

[yakalskovich]

Yay! And soon, those books of mine will finally emerge from their box.-

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I am currently reading his vampire book "Fevre Dream".

It's wonderful!

[yakalskovich]

I'm still finishing 'On Stranger Tides', the book from 1987 that 'suggested' PotC4 (and with its world of 18th century sailing + pirates + vodun magic, much of the mood and reality of the other PotC movies).

I like it, so far. The one female character is a bit too Damsel In Distress for my taste, but then, it was written by a man in 1987, what can one want?

[gethenian.livejournal.com]

Well I did buy the book, might as well try to actually read it. XD

[yakalskovich]

Yes, especially if there's people to talk about it while you do, which is what the comm is all about.-