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thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Trip To The Abandoned North Brother Island
I just went to iTunes to download A Song of Ice and Fire and it's $42 -Doesn't that seem ridiculous?




notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Kind of, but A Dance with Dragons is almost 50 hours long, that's a lot of recording time and audiobooks are a bit of a niche still.

The books flew by for me, and the first one was £5.

thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I suppose if you break it down to cost-per-hour, it isn't that ridiculous.
notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's loads though, and I spent about that long reading the books or something like that anyway, it all became a bit of a blur…
thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Do you read a lot of Sci-Fi/Fantasty? What do you make of the list kleinb100 linked to? http://brainz.org/the-10-greatest-fantasy-series-all-time/

I'm just getting in to the genre, I've read the LOTR and some Harry Potter but the others on the list are new to me.

I am currently reading Mythago Wood, which so far I'm enjoying.

notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
From that I've read LotR, ASOIAF, Harry Potter, and some Discworld books. I don't avoid it but i don't seek it out either, I've heard bad things about how long the Dark Tower and Wheel of Time books are taking to finish, and ASOIAF could go the same way. The list is fine I guess, and there's some good stuff that I've not read but I'm not sure how much time I want to invest in a series that might never end after realising that I've already done that with ASOIAF.

I'm reading some J.G. Ballard at the minute because it's architectural but also seems like science fiction/fantasy too and it's really enjoyable.

ASOIAF is great, it's more enjoyable that LotR in my opinion as it seems to be a lot more accessible. It may as well have been set in New York gangs instead as the fantasy element is just a setting and it's the politics that drive the narrative.

If you're unsure of it you could check out the TV show which I watched first, and subsequently ordered all the books and read them in quick succession (no internet to distract me either).

thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks noseamus, I appreciate the response. ASOIAF... more enjoyable than LotR...? Now I have to check it out. I've read the LotR series a couple of times and was pretty obsessed for a while.
notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, LotR kind of drifts I guess, ASOIAF is pretty pointed for a lot of it although the last two books were more diffuse than the first three, hopefully it picks up again for the last two.
kleinbl00  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Completely.

Audible: 1 credit a month for $15 a month, 2 credits a month for $22.95 a month. Rule of thumb, books over 1000 pages are 2 credits, most other books are 1. And then, they often do "2 for 1" and things like that.

I've been an Audible member for four years now. I have 48 days of audiobooks. Granted, by my math I've given them something like a thousand dollars... which makes me feel not particularly bad about ripping lots of things down to mp4 so I can lend them out.

I'd upload Game of Thrones except I generally keep my audiobooks at stupid-high resolution so it's 2.9 GB. Sorry.

http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002UZZ93G&qid...

thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks for the suggestion and the link. I'm going to try it out, it seems reasonable and you get a free download for signing up. No worries on the upload, I wasn't fishing for that.

Cool, I'll check out that series it received some pretty high praise on Amazon.

kleinbl00  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks. Would you consider this to be a credible list regarding the other 9?
kleinbl00  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No idea. I'm a sci fi guy; the fact that so many fantasy lists put Game of Thrones ahead of LoTR and Harry Potter blew me away. Then I found out HBO was making it into a series and thought "I need to jump on this."
thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Game of Thrones the HBO series seems to have had 1 season so far... how was it?
notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Really good. Pretty faithful to the show and pretty well made to boot. The second series is being made at the minute, it only has one because they've only started it.
thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks, we need a new TV series to watch. It's been a while since we've embarked upon a new one. Last one was Dexter.
notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Have you watched The Wire or Breaking Bad? They put Deter to shame really. Dexter's ok and drops off, The Wire has ruined most of the rest of TV for me.
thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
No to both, but I realize that they both need to be on the top of our list of series to watch. Dexter was good but it was hard for it to compete with the series I watched before it...Battlestat Gallactica. -best series ever.
notseamus  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'm jealous that you get to experience both with fresh eyes.
kleinbl00  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Lord of the Rings as told in the style of The Sopranos.

That's pretty much Game of Thrones in a nutshell.

thenewgreen  ·  4773 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Sold.