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Post by zutara21 on Jun 13, 2012 20:09:42 GMT -6
The Hunger Games was the last series fantasy book that I've read. That was great, except it fell off a bit for me in the last book...  I LOVE THE VAMPS IN TRUE BLOOD! SMEXY AND ALL! LOL |
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Post by Gospar on Jun 13, 2012 20:09:48 GMT -6
I saw a portion of an episode of the Game of Thrones just the other day, so you aren't the only one that's been under that rock too, Tasha. My friend offered me the first season to borrow, so I may get into it myself.
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Post by Ookami on Jun 13, 2012 20:14:19 GMT -6
It's intense. So intense.
Also... We need April!! She needs to post o3o;;
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Post by Panda on Jun 13, 2012 20:15:26 GMT -6
Troo!!
Glad I'm not alone, Mark. ^^
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Post by zutara21 on Jun 13, 2012 20:20:33 GMT -6
GoT is too gory for me. Not a gore fan...
I am a tv whore. >.>
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Post by Gospar on Jun 13, 2012 20:25:17 GMT -6
Yes, it does have quite a bit of gore in it... but nothing that I haven't seen before.
Quite honestly, I thought that Korra being bloodbended was a bit creepier. Yeah, I'm weird... Haha.
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Post by zutara21 on Jun 13, 2012 20:42:49 GMT -6
Haha, I guess I can see what you mean? I have a schedule of shows I try and watch every night so I am really into my programming.  |
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Post by Ookami on Jun 13, 2012 20:50:51 GMT -6
I love how brutal Game of Thrones is. >:3 ... It's not overly gory. I think it shows how gruesome and bloody life was during a time period like the one its set in. It is bloody though.
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Post by Flying Piranha on Jun 13, 2012 23:57:09 GMT -6
I didn't really think of The Hunger Games as fantasy, more post-apocalyptic and what not. I enjoyed the books, but I kind of wish it would've been written with a more mature audience in mind - it was rife with potential to make more social commentary and could have been much darker (I like brutal, dark shit >_>).
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Post by greenphoenix on Jun 14, 2012 4:47:51 GMT -6
Just one thing to remember about Game of Thrones: don't get attached to anyone.
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Post by zutara21 on Jun 14, 2012 7:22:34 GMT -6
I have a weak stomach so I can't do gory, bloody or dark, LOL.
I am such a girly girl when it comes to that stuff! >.<
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Post by Ookami on Jun 14, 2012 8:41:16 GMT -6
Yeah the Hunger Games are not fantasy. Game of Thrones is, but it really isn't super, heavily fantasy and has such a great plot driven by political ntrigue in a feudal type society that it has really been able to reach past genre boundaries and appeal to non-fantasy fans as well as fantasy fans. I've always been a HUGE fantasy geek myself. I love high, dark fantasy
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Post by greenphoenix on Jun 14, 2012 9:20:27 GMT -6
Game of Thrones is more low fantasy than high. Fantasy world grounded in reality with only slight deviations from what we consider to be reality.
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Post by zutara21 on Jun 14, 2012 10:40:47 GMT -6
Mockingjays are part of reality? Humanoid beast? That's fantasy
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Post by Ookami on Jun 14, 2012 13:48:03 GMT -6
Yeah, GoT is low famtasy. I'd consider the Malazan books to be high.
And yeah, I still wouldn't call Hunger Games fantasy. Fantasy tends to involve magic and myth. Hunger.Games has things like Mockingjays through the science of genetics and such. It's not magic. I guess I'd call it more sci fi if anything, but it's much more of an apocalyptic dystopian type of series
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Post by Ookami on Jun 14, 2012 13:53:14 GMT -6
Double post but these are the genres Hunger Games would fit into (from wikipedia)
Series The Hunger Games trilogy
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Adventure Dystopian Science fiction Young adult Alternative history Action novel Publisher Scholastic Press
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Post by zutara21 on Jun 14, 2012 19:13:13 GMT -6
Tired...
Where is everyone??
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Post by Gospar on Jun 14, 2012 20:05:03 GMT -6
I'm here! Just got home from my friends. Debating on finishing up my character sheets... I DO want to RP, but why do I have to be so lazy?
EDIT: Aaaand of course when I get on, everyone is off! </foreveralone>
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Post by Flying Piranha on Jun 14, 2012 21:16:07 GMT -6
Just one thing to remember about Game of Thrones: don't get attached to anyone. Yeah, my internet buddy Cesar who finally nagged me into reading the series told me this a while back, and I learned that early on with (oh fuck why does this forum not have a spoiler tag [that I can find] D:)...I'LL JUST CALL IT "SOMEONE'S FALL". >_> Late edit: On a side note, The Hunger Games has some slight fantasy elements to it, but they're not a huge part of the story, and are attributed to science in the books, like someone else said...it's more dystopian/sci-fi, really. |
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Post by greenphoenix on Jun 15, 2012 5:11:11 GMT -6
Ah yes, about that fall... Yeah, I'm saying nothing right now.
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