Mod Reintroduction and Quote Questionnaire

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone, and welcome to sounis!

My name is Jade, and I am one of the proud mods of this fabulous community. The other mod is the fabulous checkers65477, librarian extraordinaire. (rowana, the third listed mod, is also extraordinary, in that she went to Oxford, but sadly there she lost all free time.) If you ever have any questions, concerns, or ideas for the comm, you are always free to send us a message/drop a comment on our personal LJs/eat cookies/etc. We've both been busy for the past few months, but we would just like to remind you that we are here to help make sure this community is a fun, safe, book-discussion-driven place for everyone! (Y'all really don't need much help from us, which is awesome.)

To celebrate what an intelligent, caring, insightful, and generally fun group of people we have in our tiny corner of fandom, I thought I would resurrect an old set of discussion questions about people's favorite quotes.

So please! Comment away! Consider the question "and why" is attached to the end of all the questions! (It's just like high school English!) Ask questions of your own! EAT COOKIES. :-)



1) What's your favorite line from the books?
(I know, I know, it's difficult. Think hard!)

2) Is/are there any particular line(s) you find yourself repeating to yourself, or that you automatically think of in certain situations?

3) Think of your favorite line by your least favorite character.

4) Is there a line that struck you differently on subsequent rereads than it did the first time you read it?
(That one's kind of hard, too. Did it change the way you viewed a character? Was it in a broader, more life-lesson-y-type sense? Did you breeze right by it the first time, and find it later and wonder how you could have possibly missed it 'cause it's the best line ever? Etc.)

5) If you could, for half a second, channel MWT's brilliance, which line would you have like to have written yourself?



I'm looking forward to seeing how ACoK has changed people's answers. Have fun! :-)

Comments

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

Wow Jade, breaking out the hard questions. Do you know how long it's been since some of us (me) were in high school English?

1. "Diplomacy in my own name."
If I had my hands free the first time I read it I would have clapped. That whole scene is awesome but this was the perfect finish for it. I still smile every time. Irene is the best.

2. I say "Don't be ridiculous." a lot I think I did that before so it probably doesn't count.

3. This one is beyond me after the day I've had.

4. My inability to answer this is making me realize it is time for a reread.

5. All of them but that would take more than half a second's channeling.

I totally fail and don't deserve any cookies.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

1. "Diplomacy in my own name."

I love that scene. I couldn't stand Attolia at all until that scene, but after that, I completely revised my opinion of her. Now, she is my FAVORITE charachter, most ly thanks to that scene :)

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

I admit I liked Attolia from her first scene in The Thief. Even the beginning of QoA didn't make me hate (or even dislike) her. This scene however definitely turned her into my favorite. A good bit of my love for Gen is that he gets her and her loves her so well.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

I had just written a very lovely response when LJ decided to be funny :-(

Any way, I think I started by saying the I didn't really have an opinion one way or the other about her in The Thief. It's funny how that one scene changed my perception 180 degrees.

Also in that scene she says something to the effect of 'I don't execute people for driving hard bargains' and also 'Thank you for showing my barons that if I am a hard ruler to cross, you are a worse one to serve.' I think these two lines helped change my view too. In essence, she was saying that though she did what she had to, she was not heartless, or capriciously ruthless, and she did right by those who were loyal to her. The fact that she then put Nahuseresh completely and inargualby in his very lowly place was just the cherry on top of an already great scene!

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

I remember you bursting into my room to tell me that the Queen of Attolia was, and I quote, "EVIL!"