Comments on: A Game of Hormones

By: sirfwalgman

sirfwalgman — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:47:14 +0000

The Times is a rag.. and I reaaaaalllllyy wish he would come out with the next book. *sigh*

By: ladyerinia

ladyerinia — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:23:58 +0000

oh boy…I haven’t watched GoT yet, but I’m really looking forward to Daenerys . GoT isn’t boy fiction. That idea is ridiculous. Sure, there is a lot of using sex as a weapon early on, but damn….Daenerys is so strong. *rolls eyes*

It’s going to be okay. I won’t kill the ignorant lady.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 04:27:21 +0000

This is a somewhat better review:

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_liberals_guide_to_middle_earth

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:24:04 +0000

It certainly means you’re open to various scifi/fantasy elements in your entertainment. I’m never sure entirely what defines someone as a geek, other than I’m sure I’d make most requirements ;p

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:08:51 +0000

As a man, I’s offended by Ms Bellafonte’s notion what I cain’t enjoy watching a bit of hot and sweaty between the sheets action just as much as a woman. Such stereotypes belong back in the 20th…. I mean the 19th… 15th? Wait, when the hell was it fashionable fer ta think what soft-core porn was just fer the wimmenz?

As far The Hobbit goes, the reason nobody in her book club ain’t demanding it is prolly ’cause every single damn member (except fer our snobby critic) already done read it.

By: Stabs

Stabs — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:17:36 +0000

I think there’s a real case against the genrification of sci fi and fantasy fiction anyway.

Homer is full of harpies and gorgons, Shakepeare full of ghosts and witches. People before about 1930 really didn’t distinguish between fiction where some of the characters were made up creatures and fiction where the characters were made up people.

It started of course with the pulps, which as the name suggests were written as throwaway cheap fiction and I believe the divide is almost wholely rooted in publisher profits rather than any intellectual rigour.

And that leads us to the current circular arguments that fantasy isn’t literature, that books with witches and goblins in but which are undeniably good are not fantasy but that the definition of fantasy is books with made up creatures like witches and goblins.

Future generations will laugh at our pseudo-intellectual academics and literary critics and be astonished that the rest of us respect the word of people who are only arguing from the standpoint of their sinecures.

By: AliPally

AliPally — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:58:44 +0000

I have to admit to not liking Science Fiction. I have read quite a few fantasy books, but I prefer something along the lines of Harry Potter to anything with a lot of fighting and descriptions of blood spurting etc. I don’t read horror or war stories either for that matter.
I do like watching things like Trueblood and Doctor Who, though, and I love to play WoW. Does that make me a geek?

Anyway, I have not heard of Game of Thrones before now, but that review was pretty awful; after reading it I still have no idea what GoT is about (or what her article was trying to tell me). Did the reviewer even watch it?

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:52:13 +0000

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14175229

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/22/women-reading-books-study

Based on work experience, we do have more women in the library in general, but the guys that come in always take out the max possible!

By: Shintar

Shintar — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:10:13 +0000

Another female Song of Ice and Fire fan here. And that review just made me go: “What?” It doesn’t even make any sense. The writer already lost me when she referred to the series as a “global-warming horror story”.

By: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Brian 'Psychochild' Green — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:18:41 +0000

Let me summarize the NYT piece in one sentence, “GIRLS shouldn’t like all that icky BOYS stuff!”

*sigh*