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Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2004, 10:23:48 AM Seems A Feast for Crows (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/25/ref%3Dpd%5Ffr%5Fb%5Ffav%5Fh/104-9260656-3092714) has been delayed yet again, towards the end of the year.
Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Rasix on July 08, 2004, 10:27:27 AM GODDAMNIT.
This isn't helping my fears that he's about the Jordanize the series. Oh well, I guess I can just start trying some of the series that people have recommended here. Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: WayAbvPar on July 08, 2004, 10:54:18 AM Bleah. That sucks. Might have to go re-read the first three books so I can remember what the hell is going on.
Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2004, 10:59:38 AM A lot of people died.
Humans are disgusting, greedy, amoral bitches who will fuck over everyone, and risk the entire world, for a bit of power. There. I summed up the first three books. Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: WayAbvPar on July 08, 2004, 11:01:03 AM Have you been moonlighting at Cliff's Notes again?
Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2004, 11:02:19 AM More like "Books in a minute".
Edit: Also, I should add that for a fantasy epic, there's been damn little fantasy so far. If I wanted to read pages and pages of sordid medieval battles and poorly written political backstabbing... well, frankly, I wouldn't. I don't get the appeal of the series, at all. When the first book opened up with that patrol getting wiped out by the Others, I was hopeful. Then it descended into... hell or something. None of the characters are really that sympathetic. I keep hoping the Others will wipe them the fuck out. Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: daveNYC on July 08, 2004, 11:29:02 AM Quote from: Soulflame I keep hoping the Others will wipe them the fuck out. Won't happen, thanks to the Others' inability to survive stone age arrowheads and knives. Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2004, 11:34:34 AM Between dragonfire and obsidian, the Others don't stand a chance, I know.
I still have hope that Martin will accidentally kill them all, and go "WTF?" Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: Alluvian on July 08, 2004, 12:15:04 PM I would have to at least skim the first 3 books, but I have lost my ability to speadread. I was never a fast reader, but I am now too many years out from reading for enjoyment and college to read much beyond a snail's pace. I don't see myself putting aside the time to reread all the earlier books.
Although I did truly enjoy them the first time through. Title: More news from the I hate you and want to see you cry dept Post by: kidder on July 08, 2004, 12:15:49 PM I love the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, and I worry that the next novel will suck horribly. I'm hopeful that the long delay for A Feast for Crows will be worth the wait.
Too many fantasy series have gotten worse: Robert Jordan's wheel of time series...somewhere around book 6 it started lose something. More Mat Cauthon and less whiney Aes Sedai please. Tad William's Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn which was fantastic until the abortion that was "To Green Angel Tower." I believe it was the end of the 2nd book when the elves made an appearance. It left chills and I sooooooo looked forward to the final book in the Trilogy, then it was "WTF?!" It's like movie sequels...sometimes they are better if they never happened. Here's to hoping GRRM pulls it off. |