/lit/ - Literature

I believe this is what you were looking for?

Thrown around /lit/ quite a bit.

i like how this one refers to the horn in the exact same way as the other one

"and she knew it was a question"

>>4835705
>Stannis is come

>>4835705
Stanis is come, and so am I.

>>4835700


>>4835707
Are these really legit Martin writing?

>>4835759
yes

you can download the pdfs and see for yourself. i don't remember which books they are all from though

>>4835707
>He cupped her face ... and looked into his eyes
err?

someone post the clip of the brother finding out his sister is on her period and fucking her anyways

someone post the one that says 'the more she drank the more she shat'

>>4835691
bumping for grrmartin hate!

>>4835705
>>"its voice as long and long and chilling as a cold wind from the north"
>>"A long low moan, it seemed to hang above the battlements, lingering in the black air, soaking deep into the bones (...)"

>in the exact same way
>comparing a very silly image of a horn(have you ever heard a warhorn sounding high, chirpy and cirps?)
>comparing a silly passage of two books written 15 years apart.

10/10 reading analysis you've got there m8.


>>4835708
It's like you've never read sword & sorcery prose before.
Surpringly, they don't comply with literary fiction's standard grammar and syntax.

>>4836128
>cirps
*crisp

>>4835700
>>4835705
>>4835707
I don't see what is wrong with any of this.

>>4835691
>passenger airbag off
>preemptive murder

>>Men are seldom as they appear. You look so very guilty that I am convinced of your innocence. Still, you will likely be condemned. Justice is in short supply this side of the mountains. There has been none for Elia, Aegon or Rhaenys. Why should there be any for you? Perhaps Joffrey's real killer was eaten by a bear. That seems to happen quite often in King's Landing. Oh wait, the bear was at Harrenhal, now I remember.


>>“What’s the use of a candle that casts no light?”
>>“It is a lesson,” Armen said, the last lesson we must learn before we don our maester’s chains. The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serves, and it is sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble. The glass candle reminds us of that as well. Even after he has said his vow and donned his chain and gone forth to serve, a maester will think back on the darkness of his vigil and remember how nothing that he did could make the candle burn...for even with knowledge, some things are not possible.”

>one of his passages about shit
>one of his passages about sex

>>4836160
>“What’s the use of a candle that casts no light?”
It's obvious for magical use.

>>4836261
>spouting some nonsense about magic

>>think back on the darkness of his vigil and remember how nothing that he did could make the candle burn...for even with knowledge, some things are not possible.
>impossible things (i.e., magic) are not possible

That's precisely the point, with 'magic' between quotes.

Jeez, your comprehension is abysmal.

>>4836372
>nothing that he did could make the candle burn
someone made it burn though

>>4836432
Yes, so?

>>4836160
What's bad about these?

>>4836840
Not much. There is much, much, MUCH worse prose out there. /lit/ just likes to shit on GRRM now because he's popular.

>>4835782
karl droger looks over her shoulder at the mirror

>>4836840
I posted those and I did so because I thought they were well-written.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the first 3 posts either, btw. They accomplish what they absolutely must: make the reader immerse with the setting and its chaos through the sounds, lighting and the motions of the characters and also understand the tone of those scenes. And GRRM managed to do that with some wit and a minimum of poetry in his images. I mean, seriously, those similes are not half bad.

>>4836840

They're popular, and you're on a board filled with forlorn teenagers.

>>4836851
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>>4837080
plebs detected
>>>/reddit/ is that way

>>4837096
ebin redirect :^)