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

[Nuytsia]

Talk about your delayed reaction, but

HE'S FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd better post that at some stage........

[joost]

I decided to buy the hardcover after all.

['thul]

far too long wait, eh?

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Kinda sorta related: apparently we're getting a reprint of Tuf Voyaging next year. This is a collection of short stories by GRRM following the character Haviland Tuf, who is command of his own eco spaceship. I have always felt that the lack of this book was a major gap in my GRRM collection, so hopefully I'll be able to remedy that in 2012.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

And this one is definitely related: We're getting a Dunk and Egg collection, you know, those prequel tales 90 years before the main series? This is good news. I know what anthologies I can find those stories in, but I'm usually not all that interested in anthologies. Besides, it will be nice to have them in one place.

And now I have to get back to ADWD...

[redchild]

I got my copy of ADWD today! A few chapters in and I can't help but keep relating it to RotE.

Spoiler

The wargs and Valyrian roads especially remind me of Wit and Skill Roads.

[Albertosaurus Rex]

A reaction to Redchild

Yeah, I was reminded of those too. Bonds with animals are hardly unique to Hobb, though, although she did pull it off very well. Supposedly, Valyria is partly inspired by the Roman empire. Like the Valyrian roads, the Roman roads were the best throughout the European middle ages.

I am enjoying the books so far. And we're finally starting to get some revelations it seems...

[joost]

I got 'The art of George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire volume 2' in the mail today. Almost 200 pages of art inspired by ASOIAF. There are some real gems in this book!

[Nuytsia]

I can't believe it's out AND I don't even have it yet ...... the longer I can hold out the shorter the wait will be for the next one .... hehehe!

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Hi everyone, I'm back from vacation and I finished ADWD about a week ago while vacationing in Germany. On the whole, I enjoyed the book as usual, but I am slightly disappointed with the lack of story progression - I had expected a little more in that regard. It does, however, end with a bout of action followed by some fairly intense cliffhangers.

MAJOR SPOILERS

I had expected the attack of the Others to begin in this book, but instead the whole Wall storyline involved treating with the wildlings. I did like it, however - it's a powerful ray of hope in a quite dark series. Theon returning was a nice surprise. What he did is still inexcusable, but I do feel rather sorry for him. Bran's storyline was a bit disappointing - only three chapters, which did conform that some Children of the Forest are indeed still alive, but it doesn't really explain anything about the Children or the Others. Bran's glimpse of Ned did however add more fuel to the R+L=J theory. However, I have no clue what GRRM is up to concerning Dany. Our Targaryen invasion is finally here, but it's being led by Aegon now...