One of my friends told me to try The Name of the Wind.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

i'd rather read lovecraft or matheson than either of them.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

When it comes to the Bears, America is just a slobbering shitwagon. Every single opinion of his regarding this team is the most pristine of doomsday horseshit.

Just finished it. Tremendous cocktease, but otherwise it was yet another book that took way too long to set the table for nothing. At least until the next book, which is, in my opinion, bad writing. Or brilliant, I can't decide.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Aegon didn't bother me.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

When it comes to the Bears, America is just a slobbering shitwagon. Every single opinion of his regarding this team is the most pristine of doomsday horseshit.

Finally.

This one took the longest to read. Several...several reasons. First, let me point out some things from that review that this thread started with:



I could not disagree more with this. This book, to me, was littered with fits and starts. EVERY time things got going, we wound up at court with Dany again. There are chapters that literally go nowhere. One more chapter? How about, maybe tomorrow I'll pick this book up and something will HAPPEN. There were 3 points in this book that I started to question my loyalty to the series.

Now, a lot of readers thought that way about "Feast". I thought "Feast" was at least entertaining. It was full of amusing little characters and backstabbing. Cersei vs. Margaery was entertaining. And it was about 300 pages shorter than this.




Was this reviewer paid by Martin's publicist? He's back? To what, running his readers in circles? Say what you want about JK Rowling, RR, she at least kept her pace with *her* seven books.

You've got a big audience. You have a TV show now. You have a fucking obligation to see this series through. ENOUGH ABOUT THE GODDAMN SLAVERS! Every time I got to her chapters, I rolled my eyes. Here we go again...and again...and again.

Now, I still overall think the book is well written and it's got plenty of Martin's signature style and his regular characters are given plenty of life to breathe. But good Lord did he have to include POV's for every one of these characters? The Kingbreaker, The Queen's Hand...it got out of hand toward the end of this book, when I was really hoping things would start to HAPPEN.

Then what did happen annoyed me more than upset me. Is Jon Snow dead? I can just feel fanboy nation crying out. Well, we don't know...we can only speculate...for God knows how long. I'm pretty sure that ref's got the right of it. Besides, there is a concensus that Snow and Dany represent Ice and Fire, so how can Snow just die?

I really believe when this series is all said and done, that this one will be one of the hardest to get through for a reader who is trying to get through them all at once. This was 3 bitches and a bastard, Martin? You said a mouthful. Did you try reading what you wrote before you sent it to the publisher?

The meandering is obnoxious. This really DID feel like filler. I just don't care enough about Dornish history I guess.

Things I did like...

obviously, Tyrion.

Selmy. I've always liked him. Tormund. And I love Val.

I think the Reek chapters were some of my favorite. This is classic Martin. He's the author equivalent to dog's nose shoved in shit. You don't like the smell? (reek reek it rhymes with bleak) KEEP READING, ASSHOLE. I like that about him. And, it makes you really torn about how you feel about Theon.

So, this book was tough. It took me 7 weeks to finish reading. It was about as long as "Storm" and it took me 2 weeks longer to finish reading.

I think Martin better have a manuscript ready in the next year or so though...because now the clock is ticking if the HBO show continues. And it's time to get the story moving again. Books 4 and 5 were enough stand still. We need another "Storm"...the drought is a wasteland.

When fans complain about a character killed off, what do you say to them?

In some cases I sympathize. It’s hard to kill characters, they’re my children. Obviously some were marked for death in the beginning like Ned. There are plenty of books out there for fans who want comfort reading, who want to enjoy an exciting story with nothing to upset or disturb them. It’s fun to go to an Indiana Jones movie and watch him kill 40 Nazis, but there’s a place for Schindler’s List too. Schindler’s heroism resonates more with me than Indy’s — one is fun, but the other is profound and says something about human nature. I don’t know if I’m achieving it, but that’s what I’m striving for. I think fantasy after Tolkien had become Indiana Jones. They were imitating a lot of Tolkien’s tropes without capturing the spirit of Tolkien. His books are not all happy fun books.

Do you feel like you owe your fans anything? At end of the day, is there a responsibility?

I think owe is the wrong word. I try to give them a good story. And I like my fans — the vast majority are great. I probably have more interaction with fans than any author I know. By and large, I’m very nice to my fans. But I don’t owe it to them to be nice. And if I wanted to withdraw, that would be my right. I certainly believe it’s my right to take off Sundays and watch NFL football and go to conventions and work on other projects — the more hardcore trolls, that’s what they object to. You met [his assistant] Ty, he think it’s generational. That people who are angry [about Book 5 taking six years] are younger people from what he calls The Entitlement Generation. They want instant gratification — something that they’re used to from the Internet. I’m from the Baby Boomer generation, and we had to wait for s–t, man. If I heard about a book, it might never come to the spinner rack at the local drugstore. If I wanted to see a movie, we’d have to hope they’d show it on television at some time. It’s Ty’s theory, not mine, but maybe it’s true.

You intended the story in Book 5 to go further, I hear?

It’s always difficult to know where to break each book. You’re walking a fine line. Like Lord of the Rings, you’re writing one story. At the same time, I want each book to represent a phase of the journey. I try to end each character with a cliffhanger or some kind of resolution. And I try to make the cliffhangers the smaller portion — I don’t want eight cliffhangers. [Dance] had more cliffhangers than I ideally would have liked.

When it comes to the Bears, America is just a slobbering shitwagon. Every single opinion of his regarding this team is the most pristine of doomsday horseshit.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

I agree Hank.

Jon Snow, Dany, and Aegon will be the riders of the three dragons.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Or Jon is the child of a Stark and a Targaryen and he is the Ice and Fire and we dont really need anyone else but him. That would probably be the easiest and cleanest way to fix the fucking mess he got himself into. Let him be reborn after he 'died' at the end of DwD and he can begin kicking everyone's ass in Westeros and across the sea.

Oh...Eastern Illinois. They contacted me. I didn't take the entrance exam because I had 64 crayons instead of 3. But I loved going through Central Illinois. Watching people on bad cooked up Tide is the best.

In response to Shakes question, I dont think GRRM has any clue where he is headed. I think the Red Wedding totally fucked him up. It was a watershed moment in the books but it derailed his whole plot line. After that event the story became way too fractured. In the end I think Jon Snow and Danerys have to be together to unite the kingdom and save them from the Others. A song of Fire and Ice.... But to be honest I dont know how he gets there from here. He fucked up and I dont know if he will ever finish. 7 books will become 10 and he will die before it's done.

I don't like white rappers.