On March 25 2011 08:16 ChoRds wrote: hey guys, I'm really excited for this show! so far I've only read the first two books in the series. I've got a lot of other books to read before I buy the third. however, I have a quick question. I know that people always talk about the "trilogy" but there is also a 4th book. I looked and saw that it doesn't have that good of a rating, but I don't want any spoilers so I didn't look into it. so, I was just curious, without giving away any spoilers - is the 4th book not very good or something? I don't want to get excited to read it and then be let down! thanks.
I personally enjoyed A Feast For Crows. The reason it gets lower reviews is that it is a thousand page half book. That is it is only from the viewpoint of half the characters, and some of those characters people find boring. Dance With Dragons is supposed to have the other half of the characters in the same timeline.
I think that's about all I can say without any spoilers.
ohh okay, thanks man! I was worried that maybe the story was starting to get watered down or something. is the story still epic and awesome, etc etc etc in the fourth book?
AFFC is the book with the most character development. GRRM was perhaps too liberal with the "awesome" scenes in the other books, and left much of his character development to be done in one book - AFFC.
On December 10 2010 05:30 lac29 wrote: With so much hype makes me believe this will be another The Walking Dead ... where those who have read the original prints will be disappointed with the TV conversion ... but those who haven't will probably love it.
(a) plenty of hyped programmes have gone on to be successes (Boardwalk Empire for example) and (b) absolutely no one like The Walking Dead, fans of the comic ot otherwise, because its terrible.
On March 25 2011 08:16 ChoRds wrote: hey guys, I'm really excited for this show! so far I've only read the first two books in the series. I've got a lot of other books to read before I buy the third. however, I have a quick question. I know that people always talk about the "trilogy" but there is also a 4th book. I looked and saw that it doesn't have that good of a rating, but I don't want any spoilers so I didn't look into it. so, I was just curious, without giving away any spoilers - is the 4th book not very good or something? I don't want to get excited to read it and then be let down! thanks.
I personally enjoyed A Feast For Crows. The reason it gets lower reviews is that it is a thousand page half book. That is it is only from the viewpoint of half the characters, and some of those characters people find boring. Dance With Dragons is supposed to have the other half of the characters in the same timeline.
I think that's about all I can say without any spoilers.
ohh okay, thanks man! I was worried that maybe the story was starting to get watered down or something. is the story still epic and awesome, etc etc etc in the fourth book?
Ya basically it's just everybody's favorite character's(except tyrion) weren't in the 4th book. It's not like Martin's ideas or writing or story got worse.
Just finished reading the book in about 3 days. Great stuff. Blows LOTR out of the water. Going to start on A Clash Of Kings right now. Can't wait for the HBO series.
Kong and I are still dancing round the Empire State Building... but meanwhile, some big news from my editors and publishers at Bantam Spectra. In view of the ever-increasing size of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, they have scrapped their original plans for one single massive hardcover tome, and instead announced that they will divide the novel into five smaller books.
"We warned George that A STORM OF SWORDS was as long a book as we could possibly publish in one volume, and now he's gone ahead and made this one a hundred pages longer," a Bantam spokesman said. "Worse, the thing's still growing! Besides, we have all these different covers we've designed and paid for over the years, we might as well get some use out of them."
Rather than simply divide the text into five segments, Bantam has decided to follow the precedent established with A FEAST FOR CROWS and "unbraid" the novel, publishing each character's adventures as a separate volume.
The five parts of DANCE will each be released with a subtitle, as follows: A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DAENERYS A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: JON SNOW A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: TYRION A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: THE MEEREENESE KNOT
"If this format proves to be as popular as we think it will be," the Bantam spokesman said, "we will go back and re-release all the older books as individual 'character volumes' as well. Each of Martin's books is really seven or eight novels woven together, so there's no reason why they shouldn't be published individually, to give each character his moment in the sun. This will allow each reader to follow his favorite characters, and ignore the ones he finds tedious, whiny, or annoying."
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Bantam is also making a study of the feasibility of publishing subsequent volumes of Martin's series as individual single-volume chapbooks, to be released at the rate of one chapter a month. "It worked wonderfully for Stephen King with THE GREEN MILE," said the Bantam spokesman. "Even GRRM should be able to write a chapter a month, and if we get them into print as quickly as he writes them, maybe that will stop him from going back and rewriting them so damned much. Serial publication was good enough for Charles Dickens, it should be good enough for Martin, and will get all those impatient Ice & Fire fans off our backs."
The first installment of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS will still be published on July 12. It will be either the Daenerys segment or the Jon Snow, Bantam says.
Man these wallpapers are some epic fail. The wolf looks halloween/cartoony, the salmon looks like it belongs in a bass fishing shop, and the baratheon just looks puny. Who did they hire to design this? They could have been a 100x cooler.
i cant wait longer.... i look my books, then i go to hbo site, then youtube, my books... oh god, i really think after april 17th my life will get better XD
On April 02 2011 23:09 StorkHwaiting wrote: Man these wallpapers are some epic fail. The wolf looks halloween/cartoony, the salmon looks like it belongs in a bass fishing shop, and the baratheon just looks puny. Who did they hire to design this? They could have been a 100x cooler.
Only decent one is the Targaryn
Want to draw how you thought they should look? I didn't expect more from Tully (great idea of a fish for a mascot), and I think the Lion could have been much better, but Greyjoy, Targaryen and Arryn are pretty much spot on. Remember these are banners from the medieval period. Simple and striking. Stark is a bit pointy and I feel it should have been more tame and calm, fitting their motto. It's very good, but maybe too hysterical if you look at it a lot.
On April 03 2011 01:42 Jyvblamo wrote: Only the Tully one I found kind of lame, the others are pretty baller.
What do you expect? It's a frickin' trout. I mean, I get that they're lords of the trident and all, but they seriously could've picked a better coat of arms.
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