William Goodall's Blog » Books http://blog.williamgoodall.name Occasional mutterings Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:37 +0000 en hourly 1 Finished http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/08/05/finished/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/08/05/finished/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:36:43 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/08/05/finished/ IMG_5650.JPG

Well. That managed to surprise me. More than once.

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]]> http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/07/14/todays-post/feed/ 0 A Dance With Dragons http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/07/07/a-dance-with-dragons-2/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/07/07/a-dance-with-dragons-2/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:42:02 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/07/07/a-dance-with-dragons-2/ I probably won’t have finished my reread by the time this arrives. I’m spoiler free but if you haven’t read all the published volumes the following speculation is spoilery since it’s about who is alive at the start of the new volume and who might not be at the end :-)

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Much closer than any other adaptation I can think of, and the better for it.

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I’ll have to read them all again first.

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Discussion of the show here and here and here.

[Edit]

And after just one episode has aired HBO has picked up a second season of the show!

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]]> http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2011/03/27/a-dance-with-dragons/feed/ 0 I write like David Foster Wallace http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/07/16/i-write-like-david-foster-wallace/ http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/07/16/i-write-like-david-foster-wallace/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:47:06 +0000 William_T_Goodall http://blog.williamgoodall.name/2010/07/16/i-write-like-david-foster-wallace/ Flattering if it were true :-)

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