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I just read it and even though it's mostly setting up the scene for book 6, I pretty much liked it as well as the previous books. Arya chapters were pretty kickass and so were the ironmen (I had had doubts about them mainly based on how annoying Theon was, but Martin's certainly taking them to an interesting direction.) Also, A Dance With Dragons should be great (considering there's going to be plenty of Tyrion and Daenerys) and - better yet - come about shortly, since it's mostly written already.
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is his middle name "RailRoad" ?
"RamRod"?
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IIRC, there was a thread on this.... somewhere...“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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But there were only 4 replies
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Though that may have been because most people hadn't read it.
As for me, I've just started Storm of Swords, and Feast for Crows is on my bookshelf waiting (which is dangerous, I peeked at it when I bought it and spoiled some stuff for myself
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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I just bought the second book(Clash of Kings?) and have been looking for it all weekend.
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Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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ooooooooooh Storm of Swords is pure gold, you've got some good reading ahead of you and a few nice little suprises....
A Feast for Crows was a little disappointing, it was much more predictable and didn't have as much of the sort of surprising plot twists or things that made my want to stand up and cheer as the earlier books, but maybe that's because I read too many spoilers. There was good stuff there too and a few developments that I thought were very overdue (the sparrows especially).
But there were no Tyrion chapters. I love Tyrion
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Yeah, I know there are some good surprises... unfortunely, I've ruined the two biggest ones.
Spoiler:
And no Tyrion chapters?! *GASP*“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Damn! Your ruined those, that sucksOriginally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yeah, I know there are some good surprises... unfortunely, I've ruined the two biggest ones.
Spoiler:
And no Tyrion chapters?! *GASP*
AFFCs was getting too long so it only has half of the POV chapters, the other half will be in ADWD (including Tyrion
). In AFFC the Arya chapters were great and Sansa is starting to come into her own and one of the characters she spends a lot of time with is the closest we get to a Tyrion replacement...
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Obviously he's pretending to be J.R.R. TolkienOriginally posted by Sava
is his middle name "RailRoad" ?
"RamRod"?
"Ray Ray"?
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Yeah, I tend to ruin a lot of stuff if I start reading the series and there are many books. It's a failing. I'm too curious by halfOriginally posted by Bosh
Damn! Your ruined those, that sucks
AFFCs was getting too long so it only has half of the POV chapters, the other half will be in ADWD (including Tyrion ). In AFFC the Arya chapters were great and Sansa is starting to come into her own and one of the characters she spends a lot of time with is the closest we get to a Tyrion replacement...
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It's cool how the AFFC and ADWD is almost is like a 'Twin Towers' phenomenon (two books telling the same story from different points of view).
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Well, after reading all the books, so far, Jaime is my favorite character.
Brienne yelled "Arya!" before they finished killing her.
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Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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I think she yelled "Sword!"
She has no freaking idea where Arya is (nor where to start looking for her... after all, her look for Sansa was so successful), so I think she said she'd take the sword against Jaime. Her 'honor' took a backseat to saving herself and she'll have to deal with that internally the next time we see her. Martin can make her a paragon of virtuousness! If he does, he'll have to kill her like he killed Ned, the only other person who has been noble in the books.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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But she has a lead on Arya, she didn't on Sansa.
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Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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Not like its a good, or even halfway decent, lead on it.
And I don't remember, but I'm not sure if Stoneheart was there to witness the hanging. If she wasn't there, then Arya would have no meaning to her followers.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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George R R Martin books
I started a few weeks after christmas and I'm halfway through A Clash of Kings. Very good so far.
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