tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post827039760874282528..comments2024-03-04T13:30:37.333-08:00Comments on Mark Lawrence: Red Sister - The PrologueMark Lawrencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-24370967001947400062017-07-27T10:09:40.586-07:002017-07-27T10:09:40.586-07:00It would be fun if it wasn't but it probably i...It would be fun if it wasn't but it probably is, yes.Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-46854569203346229122017-07-27T10:06:24.218-07:002017-07-27T10:06:24.218-07:00Hi Mark! One question that is nattering at me, em...Hi Mark! One question that is nattering at me, emperor of thorns had the pope talking about a trip to the sisters of mercy, a convent with a checkered past. Nona is brought to this same convent but red sister is a different world and had the same name. Is this just coincidence? Persaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583258664062919633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-47236431159213110292015-08-04T12:10:45.040-07:002015-08-04T12:10:45.040-07:00I've never suffered from depression, but I'...I've never suffered from depression, but I've seen a lot of it close up from the outside.<br /><br />People find the strength/inspiration to battle their demons from many sources, and I'm very glad that my characters have been part of yours. It's a great compliment to hear that there's enough truth in them to serve in that capacity - thanks for telling me.Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-15223408794939002972015-08-04T11:20:54.041-07:002015-08-04T11:20:54.041-07:00Damn, this is good. Can't wait. I love how you...Damn, this is good. Can't wait. I love how your ideas keep flowing, and you don't take 6y long pause.<br /><br />Also, I have something to say (that youtube video you posted on Twitter made me want to give my own of how your book influenced me). It's long, so yeah ... Skip it if it's too much hassle.<br />I have a case of depression. Ever since teenage years. Been to a shrink, got the pills, moved away from my parents ... the whole shebang. I've been trying to write since I was 14, but first I had to do it in a way my parents wouldn't find out (because writing never gets you anywhere, so you better get your head out of that ditch - and even if my mom is a passionate reader, which makes it kind of contradiction, but hey ... I moved out because of stuff like this). But after I started living on my own, I always had 2 jobs + roomies and very little time of my own. You probably know about the feeling of the world crushing you, no matter where you turn or what you do, you can not get a break. Been off the pills, back on the pills, off the pills, and now I'm again on the pills. Just to get through the frikin day.<br />There are couple of authors and movies and games that make me want to get through the day, week, year, just so I could experience them. And while I enjoy reading and fangirl all around at those points, your books are the ones that not only give me the strength to get through the day, so I can read more, but actually give me the energy to FACE the world. Because in your books there is always this personal fight of a character AGAINST the world. It's not just happening and plot, it is downright A PERSON versus THE WORLD and everything it throws at you. <br />On one hand you've got Jorg, and that is me whenever I face something that sends other people screaming. And I'm just standing there: do whatever you want, I'm already in hell, you can't possibly do worse than my head does to me every day. (actually, I once scared away a big, twitchy mugger away with my: "Seriously, this is a hard as you can squeeze my forearm?") And Jorg has that never-give-up, "I shall break before I bend", and sometimes it really gives me the strength to face the day and everything it'll dump on me.<br />Then you've got Jal, who is this cotton wrapped prince and expects to get whatever he wants and just sees the world differently, with so many more options. And that too gives me will to get out and face the day, perhaps I shall discover and see something I didn't before. I shall observe people and perhaps I will learn some special trick. The world could be interesting. There isn't only one path, and even if there is, you need TO SEARCH out in case there are some well hidden.<br />Then you have Snorri, who is just broken inside, but his shell remains the same and he is my inspiration in a sad sort of way. That I will still function somehow like my normal self (even if I don't really know what that is), connect with people, even though my mind can be a black hole.<br /><br />So, from a fan who doesn't just read but LEARNS how to face the day with your books, thank you. I am in the cluster-fuck of the month (new job, old job, roomies partying through the weekend when it's my only time to really have a rest, trying to move to the new apartment with minimum income, my Mom's health problems, not having time to sit down in peace and write, and my head just offering really stupid and unhelpful solutions), so I started reading my favourite scenes from Prince of Thorns again and I think I'm ready to get up again tomorrow and try all over again. Daraknahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01670158886839618095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-75210713715794573682015-06-27T01:58:59.952-07:002015-06-27T01:58:59.952-07:00There's a link right at the top that should an...There's a link right at the top that should answer your question (& more!)Mark Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877925828353073272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-49017934835862559892015-06-27T01:00:48.020-07:002015-06-27T01:00:48.020-07:00Will this be in the same apocalyptic version of Ea...Will this be in the same apocalyptic version of Earth that Jorg lives in?Because when she said that the dead watch her, it seemed quite similar to how Jorg is haunted by the dead (ghosts of his family and people he has killed or failed). Obviously we (the readers) don't know much more about the character or the world, but with the reference to 'the dead' the world seems similar (although, the character could of course be saying the thing about the dead in a poetic way).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-89937841242545928942015-05-12T15:55:36.149-07:002015-05-12T15:55:36.149-07:00Not enough bad ass ladies in the world, looking fo...Not enough bad ass ladies in the world, looking forward to this one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06301893583913958836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-15888131460690955502015-05-01T16:47:46.335-07:002015-05-01T16:47:46.335-07:00Thoughts on the prologue: excellent use of anaphor...Thoughts on the prologue: excellent use of anaphora; vivid imagery; a cinematic vignette; foreshadows intrigue; opening two sentences snare the reader—and the last succinctly portends an ominous snare snapping shut in the story. All in all, a dark, bloody-good, stellar prologue worthy of Jorg's creator. Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01152678374147671883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-42888231606498640442015-04-30T10:25:34.079-07:002015-04-30T10:25:34.079-07:00This is *so* good...
ScarletBeaThis is *so* good...<br />ScarletBeaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-9212691015153315032015-04-29T18:29:22.275-07:002015-04-29T18:29:22.275-07:00Rock out with that review. I want to read this boo...Rock out with that review. I want to read this book, but sigh my TBR is ridiculous. Maybe I can get this on for a book club or something.Piano Lessons for Beginnershttp://www.learnpianoonline.com/start.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529725084811715233.post-17211567842094115552015-04-29T09:32:45.350-07:002015-04-29T09:32:45.350-07:00You really know how to tease your readers! Looking...You really know how to tease your readers! Looking forward for the new trilogy. And I have to complete and read all of Red Queen's War trilogy first (The Liar's Key is almost up for grabs)!Kernel's Cornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08926792369022533867noreply@blogger.com