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A Song of Fire and Ice
Nov. 3rd, 2011 06:38 pmSo I'm probably the last person on my f'list to be reading this series, or playing the associated games. I happened on the first book in the series as I was exploring the Kindle app on my new little Droid that replaced my drowned Blackberry. "Buy with one-click", it said -- and I wondered what would be involved in setting up the one-click on the Droid, so I clicked, and it said "starting download." Whoa!
So now I'm reading A Game of Thrones on a screen the size of an index card, flicking pages at the rate of approx one every seven seconds. It's an interesting experience. I think my focus on the story is better for my eyes not being able to wander fore and aft very far. But I do get tired of the steady flick - flick - flick.
Perhaps there may be a proper Kindle in my future -- I'm not sure yet. The Kindle Fire entices, because of the possibility that it could become my tablet as well, and for a lot less than an iPad.
But I digress. How nice to find that George R. R. Martin is otherwise known as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grrm so I can follow him here. Apparently he does not yet do Teh Facebooks.
There is something very familiar about Martin's characters; the only new fiction I've read recently is by Sharon Kay Penman, who wrote the (as yet unsurpassed) definitive modern historical novel about Richard III and who has moved back to the Angevins, and whose characters always have a strong bond with their dogs (as does Sharon herself, who has a sideline in helping to facilitate rescue of white German Shepherds and who is kind enough to write me occasionally condoling with me for the loss of Mr. D. and suggesting, slyly, that it may be time for me to let another shepherd into my life). So I felt quite at home in Winterfell, and wasn't at all surprised when I read somewhere that one of Martin's models was the Wars of the Roses.
But I think this may be the last new novel I ever read on an index card. If I need to read on the train using my Droid, Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice, of which I have multiple real copies, will do nicely.
(Looks like Fire and Ice is going to be my temporary short-term focus. I hope I don't run screaming from the series when a certain melancholy event takes place.)
So now I'm reading A Game of Thrones on a screen the size of an index card, flicking pages at the rate of approx one every seven seconds. It's an interesting experience. I think my focus on the story is better for my eyes not being able to wander fore and aft very far. But I do get tired of the steady flick - flick - flick.
Perhaps there may be a proper Kindle in my future -- I'm not sure yet. The Kindle Fire entices, because of the possibility that it could become my tablet as well, and for a lot less than an iPad.
But I digress. How nice to find that George R. R. Martin is otherwise known as
grrm so I can follow him here. Apparently he does not yet do Teh Facebooks.There is something very familiar about Martin's characters; the only new fiction I've read recently is by Sharon Kay Penman, who wrote the (as yet unsurpassed) definitive modern historical novel about Richard III and who has moved back to the Angevins, and whose characters always have a strong bond with their dogs (as does Sharon herself, who has a sideline in helping to facilitate rescue of white German Shepherds and who is kind enough to write me occasionally condoling with me for the loss of Mr. D. and suggesting, slyly, that it may be time for me to let another shepherd into my life). So I felt quite at home in Winterfell, and wasn't at all surprised when I read somewhere that one of Martin's models was the Wars of the Roses.
But I think this may be the last new novel I ever read on an index card. If I need to read on the train using my Droid, Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice, of which I have multiple real copies, will do nicely.
(Looks like Fire and Ice is going to be my temporary short-term focus. I hope I don't run screaming from the series when a certain melancholy event takes place.)
