G.R.R. Martin - Page 7

Millane · 10-24-2005, 07:02 AM

ohhhh its ssoooooo good, dont wait BoP, **** exams

im only about 350 pages into it, and i wont say to much about it but ill spoilerise it anyway...

its a bit wierd to start off with, a lot of chapters from characters who havent had chapters before, and not so many from older characters arya and sansa have had 2 and Cersei's had a couple and Brienne, but thats about it. There have been some awesome chapters, the Kingsmoot to see who will replace Balon, a nice prologue in Oldtown, and my favourites of all, Arya in Braavos becoming a faceless man!!!!! Wish thered been a bit more Tyrion in the story though, theres been nothing except for Cersei bitching about him, and since when has Cersei been madly in love with Rhaeger?

anywho ill finish the book and then write a bit more...

BeardofPants · 10-24-2005, 03:04 PM

Last time I did that, I almost failed... It'll be my reward for all this crap work. Which reminds me, better get back to it.

Falagar · 10-24-2005, 03:10 PM

At least you got it, BoP.

Still a week until I can even think of affording to get myself a copy. :-/ Must...resist...spoilers...

BeardofPants · 10-25-2005, 01:46 AM

Well, it turns out that my exam isn't until NEXT friday (4th nov). Now all I have to do is persuade the BF to tell me where he hid the book. Hmm... perhaps I'll try sexual favours.

Pytt · 10-25-2005, 03:19 AM

I've already read the first one. I liked it very much, though I fancy WoT

But I think I will read it trough later. I have some other books to read now.

Millane · 10-28-2005, 01:49 AM

not to many spoilers but anyway...

id forgotten that he was splitting this book differently to Storm of Swords, and half of the characters are in this one and half in the next one hence why i was feeling a bit lost about half the characters and stories not being there

i tend to think that it might have been better if hed just split the story in half like SoS rather than just put half the characters in one book half in another. it could be good when the next one comes out (next year my arse

) but its just annoying me having waited so long to not have a single Tyrion chapter or anything to do with Stannis or the Wall or Dany...
im predicting the next book will be much better than this one...
as for this book, still not done but its had its fair share of awesomeness. the new High Septon seems pretty fanatical and funky, Arya is just ****ing cool, Briennes chapters (so far) tend to get a little boring, Cersei is just becoming more messed up, and Jaime's chapters havent been to eventfal either...
hopefully able to finish it this weekend...

Jabberwock · 12-07-2005, 05:19 PM

I'm just about through Feast for Crows and it hasn't disappointed me in the least. The good thing is that next year we get Dance of Dragons because he had to split Feast for Crows into two books due to length issues. This new book is just as good as the others so it's nice to know 3 years wait hasn't been for nothing.

Elemmírë · 02-02-2006, 12:26 PM

I think a lot of people believe that nothing much happened in this book, but to me it seems that so much was built up for the next one (okay, the one after the next

). I'm glad we got to see Dorne, though.

And I'm wondering if the Lannister twins are really Lannisters... once could have been a fluke, but I caught two allusions that Jaime wasn't Tywin's son: Genna's words and then the dream with Joanna.

The Telcontarion · 06-14-2006, 08:22 PM

Great series, however I'm disappointed at how long it for the feast of the crows to come out and from what I here it wasn't worth the effort; I know he likes detail but it was probably over done. I'll wait for it on paper back.

BelegS · 06-14-2006, 11:17 PM

Quote:

from what I here it wasn't worth the effort; I know he likes detail but it was probably over done. I'll wait for it on paper back

Eh. Obviously it's up to you, but for what it's worth, I thought the book was excellent and moved the story forward very nicely.

The Telcontarion · 06-14-2006, 11:58 PM

ok belegS, but I'll stilll wait for it on paperback (cause I'm broke).

Curubethion · 12-27-2006, 01:21 AM

Aha! Found you, elusive GRR Martin thread! And only for the sole purpose of saying...

I'VE READ THE FIRST BOOK, AND I LOVE IT!!

brownjenkins · 12-27-2006, 11:39 AM

It's an awesome series with the potential to be the best among modern fantasy series. A talented writer with the ability to self-edit in a way you don't find too often among even good writers. Very few dull moments.

Curubethion · 12-27-2006, 10:44 PM

Indeed, and I love the way he sets up the characters and their beliefs...I love the Starks, BTW...there's just something extremely awesome about their whole...flavor, if you will. Winter is coming...love it! My favorite scene so far was when Ned went down to the crypts at Winterfell...I felt that captured the essence of the North perfectly!

The Telcontarion · 12-28-2006, 12:01 AM

Welcome to the club, and wait unti you actually read the other books. awesome series indeed.

Falagar · 12-28-2006, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

Indeed, and I love the way he sets up the characters and their beliefs...I love the Starks, BTW...there's just something extremely awesome about their whole...flavor, if you will. Winter is coming...love it! My favorite scene so far was when Ned went down to the crypts at Winterfell...I felt that captured the essence of the North perfectly!

Agreed.

Ned is one of my favorite characters in any fantasy-series ever.

BelegS · 12-29-2006, 09:06 PM

Arya > Bran > Jon > Lyanna > Benjen > Rickon > Eddard > Sansa.

All of 'em are pretty awesome though, with the exception of Sansa. Arya is the greatest character I have ever encountered in fiction.

Falagar · 12-30-2006, 10:49 AM

Pfft, Sansa ftw.

bropous · 03-15-2007, 05:58 PM

I've just started these books, little Bran has been pushed off the building, and I am HOOKED. This is a really good book. I'm staying away from this thread until I've gotten through the series, to avoid spoilers. Martin is an excellent writer.

Mark of Cenla · 03-20-2007, 01:33 PM

I recently bought the fourth book, so I started by re-reading the first one for the second time. I am almost done with it. Peace.

10-24-2005, 03:04 PM	#122
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Last time I did that, I almost failed... It'll be my reward for all this crap work. Which reminds me, better get back to it. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-24-2005, 03:10 PM	#123
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	At least you got it, BoP. Still a week until I can even think of affording to get myself a copy. :-/ Must...resist...spoilers... __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 10-24-2005 at 03:12 PM.

10-25-2005, 01:46 AM	#124
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Well, it turns out that my exam isn't until NEXT friday (4th nov). Now all I have to do is persuade the BF to tell me where he hid the book. Hmm... perhaps I'll try sexual favours. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

10-25-2005, 03:19 AM	#125
Pytt The Supreme Lord of The Northern Eagles Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: trondheim, norway Posts: 1,388	I've already read the first one. I liked it very much, though I fancy WoT But I think I will read it trough later. I have some other books to read now. __________________ Don't Panic!

12-07-2005, 05:19 PM	#127
Jabberwock Enting Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Canadian temporarily in USA. Posts: 55	Feast for Crows I'm just about through Feast for Crows and it hasn't disappointed me in the least. The good thing is that next year we get Dance of Dragons because he had to split Feast for Crows into two books due to length issues. This new book is just as good as the others so it's nice to know 3 years wait hasn't been for nothing.

06-14-2006, 08:22 PM	#129
The Telcontarion The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: By the shores of cuivinien Posts: 694	Great series, however I'm disappointed at how long it for the feast of the crows to come out and from what I here it wasn't worth the effort; I know he likes detail but it was probably over done. I'll wait for it on paper back. __________________ Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ecclesiasticus 2:1-5 1 My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation... ...4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate. 5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

06-14-2006, 11:58 PM	#131
The Telcontarion The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: By the shores of cuivinien Posts: 694	ok belegS, but I'll stilll wait for it on paperback (cause I'm broke). __________________ Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ecclesiasticus 2:1-5 1 My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation... ...4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate. 5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

12-27-2006, 01:21 AM	#132
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Aha! Found you, elusive GRR Martin thread! And only for the sole purpose of saying... I'VE READ THE FIRST BOOK, AND I LOVE IT!! __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-27-2006, 11:39 AM	#133
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	It's an awesome series with the potential to be the best among modern fantasy series. A talented writer with the ability to self-edit in a way you don't find too often among even good writers. Very few dull moments. __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

12-27-2006, 10:44 PM	#134
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Indeed, and I love the way he sets up the characters and their beliefs...I love the Starks, BTW...there's just something extremely awesome about their whole...flavor, if you will. Winter is coming...love it! My favorite scene so far was when Ned went down to the crypts at Winterfell...I felt that captured the essence of the North perfectly! __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-28-2006, 12:01 AM	#135
The Telcontarion The one true King of the human race, direct descendant of Adam and heir to the kings of old. "You owe me your fealty." The Tar Minyaturion Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: By the shores of cuivinien Posts: 694	Welcome to the club, and wait unti you actually read the other books. awesome series indeed. __________________ Proverbs 21:3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. Ecclesiasticus 2:1-5 1 My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation... ...4 Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate. 5 For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. Romans 5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

12-29-2006, 09:06 PM	#137
BelegS Enting Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 64	Arya > Bran > Jon > Lyanna > Benjen > Rickon > Eddard > Sansa. All of 'em are pretty awesome though, with the exception of Sansa. Arya is the greatest character I have ever encountered in fiction. __________________ Member of Guild of Bumbling Toilet Cleaners.

12-30-2006, 10:49 AM	#138
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Pfft, Sansa ftw. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle.

03-15-2007, 05:58 PM	#139
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I've just started these books, little Bran has been pushed off the building, and I am HOOKED. This is a really good book. I'm staying away from this thread until I've gotten through the series, to avoid spoilers. Martin is an excellent writer. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-20-2007, 01:33 PM	#140
Mark of Cenla Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: central Louisiana Posts: 105	I recently bought the fourth book, so I started by re-reading the first one for the second time. I am almost done with it. Peace. __________________ Mark Wellman ><>

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