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#1 User is offline   Archeokat 

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 02:14 PM

I don't care if this sounds as miserable as I think it does, but is anyone else getting sniffy with their non-fantasy reading friends over their new found love for the genre, after GoT? I had a friend email me last week to say 'Hey! You read fantasy! Let's talk about GRRM!' and I honestly felt like going to the airport, getting on a plane and going to his house, just so I can pointedly ignore him when he answered the door. A couple of years after giving up reccomending books to my friends that I know they'd love, which they don't read because they're 'not really into fairies and shit', I'm finding this change in attitude more than a little bit galling.

Is this bothering anyone else? And if so, can you please let me know how to be polite about it?
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 02:22 PM

i remember feeling the same with Jackson's LotR film. just ignore them they'l soon move on
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 02:25 PM

I know exactly what you mean., I put something on my facebook status about looking forward to GoT and got absolutley ripped apart for it!! lo and behold a couple of episodes into the series half of those people were emailing me or talking to me about how good it was.

I agree it is annoying but if that's what it takes for those people to realise that Fantasy isn't all about 'fairies and shit' I think its a good thing!!

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Posted 14 October 2011 - 02:31 PM

Don't be hating. CONVERT them...

'If you like GoT, you MUST read the actual books. And then GGK's LIONS OF AL'RASSAM or maybe UNDER HEAVEN. And then hey, there's this Erikson guy...'
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 02:51 PM

I'm not bothered as long as they understand that they will never, ever, ever know as much, or be as big a fan, as me. Posted Image

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Posted 16 October 2011 - 08:46 PM

Most of my friends are geeks so I don't have this problem.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 10:22 AM

I love the internet; whatever did people do in the past when they wanted to bitch about their friends publicly?
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 11:24 AM

View PostD, on 17 October 2011 - 10:22 AM, said:

I love the internet; whatever did people do in the past when they wanted to bitch about their friends publicly?

tHey bitched about their friends publicly.
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 12:07 PM

Or bitched about one set of friends to another set
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 01:10 PM

There's like 50 year old sales guys at my office who say things like "Hey, you read fantasy right? That Game Of Thrones show is awesome..." and then they start to blather on or ask me questions about how the Starks will get revenge immediately at Joff and Cersei...and how evil and irredeemable Jaime is...LOL...and the BEST part? I get to be condescending to them in my head, wondering why the fools only bother to listen to me about good stories when the mass media tells them it's good.

Still, Abyss is right, a slow, deliberate conversion is a GREAT idea!
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Posted 17 October 2011 - 01:47 PM

I had a couple of friends tell me, "hey they're making a TV series of those books you read" as if I didn't know from the moment it was optioned
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 07:40 PM

yeah, thats always happen to me, but not only on books, its the same with music, series, etc
the first time that happend I thought they were making fun of my. ;)

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 07:48 PM

"Oh, I liked it before it was on TV/was cool!"

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 08:18 PM

Greymanekas its was cooler because you can imagine the characters as you like, but when TV´s puts real persons you cant.

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 08:57 PM

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Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:22 PM

View PostAbyss, on 14 October 2011 - 02:31 PM, said:

Don't be hating. CONVERT them...

'If you like GoT, you MUST read the actual books. And then GGK's LIONS OF AL'RASSAM or maybe UNDER HEAVEN. And then hey, there's this Erikson guy...'


I am totally doing this with several of my friends at the moment. They discovered the T.V. series, then found the books, and then I was all "hey, if you like that, there is this other fantasy author, a bit harder to get into but totally worth it, and incidentally, I have Gardens of the Moon right here!"
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