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Sun Jul-24-11 11:15 AM
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Anyone reading A Dance With Dragons? |
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Though I bet if anyone is, they aren't online here, LOL. As one of the scriptwriters said at Comic Con, "It's like crack on paper."
I just finished it....at 3 a.m. I was reading from noon until 3 a.m.
Magnificent work. I kept reading sentences and paragraphs to my husband (non-spoilers as he is on Book 1) just to share his exquisite writing. I wish I'd saved some quotes, just for the pleasure of reading them again. And once again, he had me yelling out OMG in a number of places. Especially at the end, of course.
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Sun Jul-24-11 11:18 AM
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1. I just started it. I guess I'm going to be really tired at work tomorrow huh. |
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Sun Jul-24-11 12:10 PM
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2. I'm reading the 2nd book now. |
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I had never read anything by Martin before, never knew he wrote so many books (aside from the Fire and Ice series)!
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Sun Jul-24-11 09:26 PM
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3. Finished it last week sometime. |
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I kept telling myself not to read it so quickly, but it did no good. Now it'll likely be six years until the next one. I didn't start reading them until I saw it on HBO, so this will be my first A Song of Ice and Fire lull, something I was quite used to when reading The Dark Tower.
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Sun Jul-24-11 10:50 PM
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5. Same here, about the HBO series. I had a thought for an |
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actor choice if they get to the later books on HBO.
Dick Cheney could play Ramsay Snow.
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Sun Jul-24-11 11:18 PM
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6. Given the sex scene in book 5 |
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I just threw up in my mouth a LoT.
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Sun Jul-24-11 11:19 PM
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Nah - Bush should play the bastard. Cheney should play Roose Boston.
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Sun Jul-24-11 11:24 PM
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8. And who should play the Turncloak? There are so many |
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I would like to see reduced to that.
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Sun Jul-24-11 09:36 PM
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Just loved it for the most part, Martin is really hitting his writing stride.
Yes, I know the "OMG!" feeling...that happened multiple times. The oldest son is reading it now, I have to keep quiet for him to finish.
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Mon Jul-25-11 12:48 AM
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9. I'm really pacing myself |
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i waited 6 years for it. I'm savoring every page.
oh, and I get to meet GRRM this coming Sunday....! BOO YA!
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Mon Jul-25-11 10:32 AM
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Wed Jul-27-11 02:09 PM
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24. At the Tattered Cover in Denver? |
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Mon Jul-25-11 11:02 AM
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11. I didn't like it as much as previous books. |
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Mon Jul-25-11 02:21 PM
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16. I liked it much better than Crows, though. I think Crows left |
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me with that unresolved feeling you speak of.
I'm enjoying the series but I hope it is resolved in two more books.
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Mon Jul-25-11 05:05 PM
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18. "Feast" was just awful. |
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Mon Jul-25-11 07:23 PM
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Game of Thrones I did read reviews on Amazon of the latest book and some were very disapointed
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Mon Jul-25-11 11:09 AM
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12. I'm hoping to start A Feast for Crows later this week |
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or early next week. Then, on to Dance after that.
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Mon Jul-25-11 11:19 AM
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Got about 300 more pages in Storm of Swords. Got behind by actually going to a movie yesterday...;)
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Mon Jul-25-11 01:23 PM
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14. I'm down to about 150 left |
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Edited on Mon Jul-25-11 01:23 PM by NewJeffCT
is 300 pages left somewhere around Joffrey's wedding?
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Mon Jul-25-11 01:33 PM
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15. Just after the wedding |
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when Tyrion is trying to find his "champion"
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Mon Jul-25-11 05:27 PM
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at how much I forgot from when I read it 10-11 years ago. But, Feast for Crows & Dance with Dragons will both be entirely new to me, and hopefully the first 3 books will be fresh.
Hopefully, I won't have to re-read the books if Martin doesn't put book 6 out until 2017 or so.
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Wed Jul-27-11 07:10 PM
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26. There are four weddings in "A Storm of Swords" |
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Well five, if you count the one that takes place offstage. And none of them end well! "So then, children, they got married, and those that survived lived miserably ever after..."
Makes the American traditions of Bridezillas and divorce look downright appealing.
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Wed Jul-27-11 07:25 PM
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28. One might say that Littlefinger's wedding turned out VERY well for him |
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Thu Jul-28-11 04:05 AM
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29. Ah, but the blushing bride... |
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Thu Jul-28-11 05:51 AM
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ended happily - for most of the readers..., and for most of Westeros.
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Mon Jul-25-11 03:58 PM
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17. finished a few days ago |
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I started a spoiler discussion thread in the Fantasy group, but nobody's replied. :(
I loved it. The major character death was shocking, the suspense regarding the revolution in the east was amazing, and the state of the plot lines is fascinating.
I think "Major Character" is coming back, though. :evilgrin:
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Wed Jul-27-11 09:53 AM
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21. I was very upset by that loss. n/t |
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Wed Jul-27-11 10:34 AM
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Wed Jul-27-11 06:58 PM
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George RR Martin: please don't kill my favorite characters, please don't kill my favorite characters, please don't kill my favorite characters...
It's a lost cause. He bumps at least one off in every book, and by the end of "Feast for Crows" virtually everyone he started with is now maimed/imprisoned/exiled/disfigured or dead, and some are rapidly turning into hopeless alcoholics. Westeros is in dire need of some AA meetings. And a good disability rights group, not to mention a decent funeral home.
Don't know why I continue. Every time a sympathetic character gets killed or permanently crippled I weep. But I gotta find out if Jon Snow's parents are who I suspect, and the real nature of the Others. It really is "crack on paper"!
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Wed Jul-27-11 07:20 PM
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27. I'm a third of the way through Storm Of Swords |
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Thu Jul-28-11 05:52 AM
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31. it really picks up later in the book, too |
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One chapter, in particular, had me gaping in surprise the first time I read it.
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Thu Jul-28-11 09:45 AM
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32. I finished it last night. I'm certain now that GRRM hates his readers |
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Not even Joss Whedon is so cruel.
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Thu Jul-28-11 06:12 PM
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33. Got it in the mail on the evening of Wednesday the 13th. |
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Edited on Thu Jul-28-11 06:18 PM by BreweryYardRat
Finished it by Friday or Saturday night. If I'd had a day off (had to work that Saturday), I could have ripped through it in one sitting.
Much love for Lord Manderly -- he's significantly moved up on my list of favorite characters. Balls. Of. Steel.
Now I need to find time to re-read it and look for any subtleties/foreshadowing that I missed. (I understood the implications of Manderly's pies -- although that wasn't exactly subtle, by Martin's standards.)
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