A song of Ice and fire discussion (spoilers incl A Dance with Dragons)

[fool-ish]

I'm sure I've seen the word 'mislike' somewhere..probably in ASoIaF!

It's there alright. I just came across it, and grinned!

@ Valarya: Oh, I thought fool-ish said that Sansa grew on her (?) and so this meant her (fool-ish's) feelings had positively changed for Sansa somewhat? This never happened for me with that *other* little cow...I hated her to the end as we know it so far ( !!)...and so I was predicting that I would feel the same way about Sansa from start to finish.

To be fair to Sansa though, she *did* show empathy for Hound when he told her his story, and also later backed him in the tourney.

As for Hound, well, he's been a pleasant surprise and I hope he's not going to be killed off too soon.

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One thing that I do like about many of the people that I don't like is that they have their moments when I do find that I *could* like them...eg the example with Sansa that I gave above ^ and also with Catelyn who has, at least, paused to question herself with regards to her feelings toward Tyrion and is acting out of what she believes to be fair retribution, not just wanting to kill for the sake of killing. She's wrong but if she learns this, I hope she will then do the right thing. If she did the wrong thing, knowing the truth, well then I'd just have to strike her off my Christmas card list for all eternity.

I knew I'd seen it somewhere!

I did say Sansa grew on me as the books went on. I wouldn't go so far as to say I 'like' her as such, more that she matured somewhat and quite forcibly!

I'm a great fan of the Hound! Definitely one of my favourite characters and more complex than you would initially think.

There are more 'grey' characters in this series than any other I've read...they tend to shock and surprise regularly, which is all to the good and makes for great reading.