I liked Clash of Kings better, although the ending was a downer. I wanted more Daenerys chapters too... Spoiler wtf was with the fake killing of bran and rickon? I was pissed for a few chapters!
Just finished The Terror of Living: Urban Waite. I found it pretty unremarkable, really wouldn't recommend it.
havent read a book in awhile, keep hearing about this hunger games book/series worth checking out? heard they're easy reads as well.
Dude. Read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and 1984 by Orwell. And hot zone about ebola. You wont regret it.
Glad you're liking it. I can't wait to read that book again right before The Prisoners of Heaven is released.
Aquariums of Pyongyang is a good read too. Currently reading Flaw of Averages. Oh how deceiving averages can be.
Just finished reading this ... Savages was a good not great book. Oliver Stone is making a movie from it, which should be quite good. Just started ... A bit of a slow starter.
There's a teaser trailer out for Joe Abercrombie's A Red Country. The tentative jacket description is also out: Shy South comes home to her farm to find a blackened shell, her brother and sister stolen, and knows she’ll have to go back to bad old ways if she’s ever to see them again. She sets off in pursuit with only her cowardly old step-father Lamb for company. But it turns out he’s hiding a bloody past of his own. None bloodier. Their journey will take them across the lawless plains, to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feuds, duels, and massacres, high into unmapped mountains to a reckoning with ancient enemies, and force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, a man no one should ever have to trust… <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w1A7g0mM1qI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> There's a nice little reveal at the 20 second mark. Spoiler The Bloody Nine is back! I really don't know which book I'm most looking forward to this year: A Red Country, The Prisoner of Heaven, or The Providence Rider. Some mighty fine reading in store for later this year.
Storm of Swords was good. I liked the rapid plot twists at the end. 200 pages into a Feast for Crows and it's a bewildering mess of name-dropping. I'm not complaining about the story (yet), but the damn glossary of names is a b**** to page through. Alphabetically would have been soooooo much easier.
His original editor stopped him from having a glossary of characters in alphabetical order by the image on their banner.
I presume you meant the above edit. It's quite annoying. And 3.5 books into the series and I don't care at all about the banner images lol. Feast for Crows is sllllllooooooowwwww. I can see the setups but the pacing is languishing. And all this emphasis on cersei's intrigues is tiring to read.
I meant it the way I wrote it. I just didn't write it very clearly (violating the no posting before coffee rule). This is how he wanted the glossary to read originally Aardvark - Lord Jyker of House Blah Blah Blah Badger - Baron Not Important of House WTF? Badger - Lady Not Important, formerly of House Blah Blah Beaver - ... The man loves his banners. I guess during the time period they were important, but sometimes he'll describe armies by them. I know Lions and Wolves at this point. However, when he describes a group of soldiers as flying the fierce turtle banner but doesn't mention their name, it is frustrating because I can't remember every minor house let alone what was on their banner. There is one very nice banner joke in the fifth book. It's definitely slow. I started getting Martin fatigue by the fourth novel.
Yeah...but I don't want to stop now that I am at least familiar with a good percentage of the characters. le sigh.
