About to marathon this. What will I think of it?

About to marathon this. What will I think of it?

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just read it, kys.

If the idea of following the brownian motion of 100+ or so important characters across the two continents in a temporally fucked structure (by the fourth book GURM simply gave up on the continuity, which he admits in the preface) sounds appealing you'll have a pretty grand time. If you expect an actual story just move along - after 5 novels the fucking winter is still coming.

But soon we’ll get the 6th book right? Please

Why does he give up continuity?

Unironically an entertaining read.

Some of the best braaaap lit ever.

A strong start with an increasingly repetitive use of the same cliches and tropes as the series goes along. As he was writing the series, Martin decided to increase the number of planned books and it really shows in the storylines of some characters like Dany. After the first book she's involved in nothing more than busywork to keep her occupied until the dragons can grow up.

Yum

The amount of people with POV chapters grew so large that it became impossible to keep the linear storytelling. Books 4 and 5 take place over the same period of time but concern different characters.

A promising start that somehow gets more and more glacial as it goes on. People make fun of LOTR for being a walking journal but they haven't had to read the last two books of ASOIAF.

I like the part where you're led to believe a character is dying but then they survive.

Idk the winterfell part of the last book was pretty well done iirc

It didn't impress me at all because even while Jon was being repeatedly stabbed I knew with an absolute certainty that he would be coming back to life. There was no tension and the show confirmed my belief.

Really?

Relatively decent storytelling, with generally poor writing, and not much depth.

Incest, rape, despair, and food porn.

While I like the characterization, the lore is just dreadfully boring and hardly above picrelated in terms of creativity.
>hurr durr evil ice monsters sloooooooowly approach from the norf

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>hurr durr evil ice monsters sloooooooowly approach from the norf
But you're leaving out about 2/3 of the plot.
While the knights and lords war and quibble over who deserves to sit in the throne, an army of murderers, rapists, bastards, and wildfolk defend the realm from an army of the dead at the edge of the world.

I just started reading this. Went through 100 pages today. Exactly the same thing as the first season, and the adaptation is much better.

It's honestly kind of incredible how much better the TV adaptation is until it stops being able to rely on the source material where the quality fucking plummets.

The guy's 70, and he's morbidly obese. To add to that, he seems to write about half a page per month, spending the rest of his time watching Breaking Bad, and using twitter. Oh, and he’s trying to write two books at once. The fat man’s going to take a tumble down the stairs before he finishes the story, I’d bet money on it. The only question is, what will be done with his manuscripts? Will a second writer come in to fill the blanks, finishing the story for him? Or will the ending be left up to the reader’s imagination? I don’t know. I have a theory that he’s trying to be some strange mixture between Fermat, and Tolkien, tragically dying before he can finish his magnum opus. I’m not sure what happens in that case.

>> "It's honestly kind of incredible how much better the TV adaptation is"
> Saint Tyrion
> Renly and Stannis
> Tragic Romantic Robb
> YASS KWEEN Daenerys
GoT from season 1 to season 4 was good, but even then you could see, how the showrunners didn't understand some characters.

you have to wonder though, how much of that is the writers understanding what sells/what will make for more "pulpy" viewing vs staying accurate to the books?

I'm about to do the same. I'm so dissapointed with the show at the moment that I got motivated to go the book route.

I ordered the leatherbound set of the first 5 books, a world of ice and fire companion book, Fire and Blood, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Probably going to start with Fire and Blood first and reference a world of ice and fire as I go along. Will also read random stuff in a world of ice and fire while I take shits.

I hope we get more Dunk and Egg stories. I may like them more than the main series.

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Tbf it is a known fact by then that you can resurrect people and those who can warg into animals will do so upon death.

I'm probably the minority here but I absolutely adore generic fantasy settings like your pic. Takes me back to that childlike sense of wonder. When everything was new and fresh and the world was full of mystery.

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>finish dunk and egg
>open-ended and optimistic ending
>go to the wiki to see what happens to them
>egg goes crazy and burns down his keep trying to hatch a dragon egg and kills everyone including dunk in the process

oh okay

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I'm not crying... there's just something in my eye...

On a side note I'd love a miniseries based on these stories. One proviso though: keep Benioff and Weiss away from it.

Planetos is ok, but Thousand Worlds is better.

I read the first three fairly quickly. Found the fourth one hard to get into... grew bored but still finished it.
Didn't bother cracking open the fifth.
Stopped caring what happened to any of the characters.

That's where he fucked up - introducing new sets of characters. Such as the sand sisters or whatever they were. Who gives a fuck...

Am reading the series for the first time. Finished the third one yesterday, it was a pretty good book.

A funny thing is that I felt the ending of A Storm of Swords coming like a dozen chapters before the epilogue, while in A Clash of Kings the final chapter hit me out of nowhere (I'm reading on a Kindle so I don't know how close to the end of the book I am).

Also, I started A Feast for Crows today, and it's pretty clear why the TV series went out of the rails in Season 5. The book completely ignores the most important POV's from previous books and chooses to focus on Dornish and Iron Island shit, something that a TV show so popular would never do.

From how he's talked about it it seems he's comfortable with the story dying with him.

Well written, entertaining throughout. Be prepared for lack of ending though

Horrible book, the one time where the tv show tops the book.

>>hurr durr evil ice monsters sloooooooowly approach from the norf
>LoTR hurr durr evil ring must place in big phire!

LOTR is the father of modern fantasy cliches, your point?

Anyone else waiting until all the books are released? Don't want to start a series and just not have it be finish because George got a heart attack or something.

I just started the first book (takes me forever to get through it for some reason, I'm only at page 71 after two days which is the end of the first episode) and that's probably a good call to be honest. I'm gonna read the Lord of the rings instead.

Who cares? It's about a journey, not destination. Are Don Juan and In Search of Lost Time any worse as works of literature because they weren't finished?