G.R.R. Martin - Page 8

bropous · 03-27-2007, 07:09 PM

Halfway through book #3, and all I can say is:

WOW!!!!!!!!!

I checked with Barnes and Nobles today. Martin's next novel, "Hedge Knights", due out in August.

bropous · 04-15-2007, 11:35 PM

Well, I misspoke. "Hedge Knights" is not the book I'm waiting for.

"A Dance With Dragons" is the one I am waiting for. And it is still not written yet.

As a writer, Martin is fantastic. I think he is a jackass politically. Typical whining liberal, loves his own rights, but hey, screw those who live in oppression, can't be bothered to extend freedom to those who are living with the iron boot on their throats. His screeds on the 2004 election made me want to vomit.

Oh well, fine, I can appreciate his writing and his books while thinking he has his head up his fat rear end on other issues, part of the duality of man, "you know, the whole Jungian thing".

Some of the books did bog down here and there, and I found the whole Ironborn succession sidestory a tad on the boring side. His obsession with food (and it shows in his photos) gets a bit wearying, and some of the genealogies of minor characters is unnecessarily detailed.

I'd say, all in all, that this is some of the best fantasy fiction that I have read in recent years, and I am really looking forward to the next book.

03-27-2007, 07:09 PM	#141
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Halfway through book #3, and all I can say is: WOW!!!!!!!!! I checked with Barnes and Nobles today. Martin's next novel, "Hedge Knights", due out in August. __________________ "...[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.

04-15-2007, 11:35 PM	#142
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Well, I misspoke. "Hedge Knights" is not the book I'm waiting for. "A Dance With Dragons" is the one I am waiting for. And it is still not written yet. As a writer, Martin is fantastic. I think he is a jackass politically. Typical whining liberal, loves his own rights, but hey, screw those who live in oppression, can't be bothered to extend freedom to those who are living with the iron boot on their throats. His screeds on the 2004 election made me want to vomit. Oh well, fine, I can appreciate his writing and his books while thinking he has his head up his fat rear end on other issues, part of the duality of man, "you know, the whole Jungian thing". Some of the books did bog down here and there, and I found the whole Ironborn succession sidestory a tad on the boring side. His obsession with food (and it shows in his photos) gets a bit wearying, and some of the genealogies of minor characters is unnecessarily detailed. I'd say, all in all, that this is some of the best fantasy fiction that I have read in recent years, and I am really looking forward to the next book. __________________ "...[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.

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