valca
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Post by valca on Sept 11, 2007 14:29:51 GMT -5
It's worth mentioning, especially in more recent fantasy books, that sex scenes have a tendency to work themselves in somewhere. Looking at the fantasy books I own, at least half have sex scenes in them. So if you're going to read fantasy, accept that there is a fair chance that there will be a sex scene somewhere in there.
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darkhyuuga
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D.gray man... enough said.
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Post by darkhyuuga on Sept 13, 2007 17:10:31 GMT -5
lol... agreed. the hobbit would've been ten times more exciting if there were scenes like that... although that would be a little hard to picture Bilbo and unknown hobbit lady.... *runs to da toilet and throws up* lol.
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Post by GhostEggplant on Sept 13, 2007 18:30:20 GMT -5
There coulda been some dwarf women. 0_-
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Post by zemira on Sept 14, 2007 7:45:18 GMT -5
Yah, but the dwarf women looked like dwarf men...so it'd be like just men-dwarf, which is scary. *doesn't like hairy people*
And are you people blind? Sam and Frodo were hot and heavy every stinkin' day in those books. >_< And if you don't believe, go rent the old 80's cartoon version of the Lord of the Rings. And watch when Strider tells them a story about this couple. They were looking at each other so creepily. (creepily is so a word). And there are a ton of "looks" in the movies too. Sam and Frodo had hobbit-smex almost constantly. >_<
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Post by shyviolet on Sept 14, 2007 10:36:45 GMT -5
What?? There's nothing like that in the books, you lunatic! It's just the writing style Tolkein used, it's very old-fashioned. I like to avoid sex scenes when I can, just because I've read too many promising books that have been ruined by them. That's why I'm such a huge fan of period dramas, modern romance novels always seem to involve sex, it just seems so much less... I dunno... I like the idealised romance in the old ones. Sex kind of ruins it. It seems to lower the tone a bit to describe it to the reader, and often it doesn't seem to have any motivation beyond "heh, I feel like screwing someone, you'll do!".
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Post by GhostEggplant on Sept 16, 2007 10:38:16 GMT -5
Yah, but the dwarf women looked like dwarf men...so it'd be like just men-dwarf, which is scary. *doesn't like hairy people* And are you people blind? Sam and Frodo were hot and heavy every stinkin' day in those books. >_< And if you don't believe, go rent the old 80's cartoon version of the Lord of the Rings. And watch when Strider tells them a story about this couple. They were looking at each other so creepily. (creepily is so a word). And there are a ton of "looks" in the movies too. Sam and Frodo had hobbit-smex almost constantly. >_< Hey, that was purely a loving master/sevant relationship. Most of the time. As far as romance goes in LotR, I was very happy with the canon.
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Post by iamthelizardqueen on Jan 11, 2008 18:08:29 GMT -5
But why couldn't there by any Kaiku/Tane sex?!? *spoiler for book3* Well, there was dream sex when Kaiku was in the Forest of Xu...well, dream rape really, but we all know the real Tane would never do that. So it counts as dream sex.
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darkhyuuga
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D.gray man... enough said.
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Post by darkhyuuga on Jan 11, 2008 21:53:29 GMT -5
sex scenes make the book realistic... (looks like i've grown up a little within the intervals of my last post) But I dont think The Braided Path need the sex scenes as much as The Fade did (the scenes in that book made Ornas job seem more realistic)
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Post by shyviolet on Jan 12, 2008 5:44:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I think the Fade would have been weird without any. Chris's sex scenes are usually well-placed and believable though, it's in other fantasy novels that they've wrecked it for me.
*coughBlackMagicianTrilogycough*
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Jan 24, 2008 21:40:12 GMT -5
sex scenes make the book realistic... (looks like i've grown up a little within the intervals of my last post) But I dont think The Braided Path need the sex scenes as much as The Fade did (the scenes in that book made Ornas job seem more realistic) No more about the fade please.
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Post by iamthelizardqueen on Jan 25, 2008 19:44:16 GMT -5
No more about the fade please. It's not really much of a spoiler. It's just mentioned a couple of times in the book in passing
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Post by Aryeec {E.F. Forester} on Jan 25, 2008 20:34:51 GMT -5
No more about the fade please. It's not really much of a spoiler. It's just mentioned a couple of times in the book in passing and i don't want to know anything about it until i read it
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Post by silitha on Feb 11, 2009 15:18:47 GMT -5
Being older and having read several books with "smut" in them I wasn't overly surprised. The fact that it was "girl on girl" action kind of caught me off guard since I hadn't picked up that theme in any of his other books. But for me it still fit nicely I mean in real life people ahve sex esspecially at the age Kaiku and her gang are at. When I was younger I was wholey innocent on the fact of that. But now its a fact of life and if people don't bang in books after a reasonalbe amount of time *cough*twilight*cough* it comes across and not very human to me....
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Post by missbobby on May 4, 2009 14:40:46 GMT -5
Weirdly I was having a discussion about sex scenes in books recently with a group of people and my friend told me when he saw one coming on in a book he skipped ahead a couple of pages and read from there because he felt uncomfortable reading them and I actually used The braided path as an example of why you should NOT do that... Just like in real life lots of very important things happen behind *cough* closed doors (as an aside I feel I have to add that I had an enraptured audience when I was talking about Kaiku/Asara.... and I'm fairly sure that was a "sex thing" regardless of the reasons behind the attraction it did exist). Also I find it quite refreshing to have a bit of sex and cuddling inbetween the violence and backstabbing. keep it up Chris!
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Post by lisajane on May 4, 2009 21:48:22 GMT -5
But now its a fact of life and if people don't bang in books after a reasonalbe amount of time *cough*twilight*cough* it comes across and not very human to me.... I thought they'd never get around to it in Twilight.
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