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Excerpt (posted long ago) of Dance with Dragons
(mild spoilers) ...A white wolf moved through a black wood, beneath a pale cliff as tall as the sky. The moon ran with him, slipping through a tangle of bare branches overhead, across the starry sky.
"Snow," the moon murmurred....
Yeah, definitely helps when you're reading so you can grasp where certain characters are and how far they are from each other. Especially so for me, in reading the fourth book -- mother of hell, Martin certainly went trigger happy with new POV characters.
So far, the fourth book is less than enticing than its predecessors, really boring POV characters. House Martell, dear god, it was a struggle reading through it as well as with Cersei, Jamie, well most of it. The only ones I've been looking forward to are Asha and Arya who are far and few in-between the snooze fest. Martin certainly made poor choices in this installment, I think, particularly so with House Martell and House Greyjoy (except for Asha). Asha is a badass character, love. huh. Her and Tyrion, very witty characters, which I love.
I'm just about done with the fourth book. What do you guys predict of Sansa? It seems like her character is going to be like Cersei albeit less sinister.
Arya? Read someone's comment of her becoming an assassin, I was hoping but doesn't seem like it so far. Perhaps, I think, and it's quite a stretch but if she does become one I think she'll end up working for Dany somehow. Maybe it'll be Sansa vs Dany in an all out war, dun dun DUN -- lol.
Yeah, definitely helps when you're reading so you can grasp where certain characters are and how far they are from each other. Especially so for me, in reading the fourth book -- mother of hell, Martin certainly went trigger happy with new POV characters.
So far, the fourth book is less than enticing than its predecessors, really boring POV characters. House Martell, dear god, it was a struggle reading through it as well as with Cersei, Jamie, well most of it. The only ones I've been looking forward to are Asha and Arya who are far and few in-between the snooze fest. Martin certainly made poor choices in this installment, I think, particularly so with House Martell and House Greyjoy (except for Asha). Asha is a badass character, love. huh. Her and Tyrion, very witty characters, which I love.
I completely agree about the 4th book!!! I'm about half way through it and jesus, I've been waiting for a chapter on Catlyn ever since I finished the last book! I'm ok reading about Brienne, but I loathe the Martells as well as his "creative" chapter titles. The Kracken's Daughter... The Queen Maker... really Martin? Who the eff ever cared about the Iron Islands to begin? That was my 4th book mini-rant. Other than that I'm enjoying Brienne and I'm thinking Arya and Brienne would make a killer team if they could ever find each other! An Arya-honing raven would be so handy. Sansa is boring per usual. I don't care about Sam and Cersei is boring although I'm enjoying how Margeary is annoying Cersei through Tommen.
I completely agree about the 4th book!!! I'm about half way through it and jesus, I've been waiting for a chapter on Catlyn ever since I finished the last book! I'm ok reading about Brienne, but I loathe the Martells as well as his "creative" chapter titles. The Kracken's Daughter... The Queen Maker... really Martin? Who the eff ever cared about the Iron Islands to begin? That was my 4th book mini-rant. Other than that I'm enjoying Brienne and I'm thinking Arya and Brienne would make a killer team if they could ever find each other! An Arya-honing raven would be so handy. Sansa is boring per usual. I don't care about Sam and Cersei is boring although I'm enjoying how Margeary is annoying Cersei through Tommen.
I happen to like the Kracken's daughter, lol, not so much the events that took place though. I liked her from reading Theon's POV in the third book, I thought that was particularly amusing, their encounter.
I was beginning to like Jamie in the third book, then I read the fourth, so dull, so very dull.
I like Brienne too, though Martin, MARTIN, don't you dare kill her off -- would have been pointless if she dies, ya'K-N-O-W Mar-TIN.
We seem to like the same characters, just letting you know when you near the end of this book, you'll be squeamish for them -- I certainly was.
I happen to like the Kracken's daughter, lol, not so much the events that took place though. I liked her from reading Theon's POV in the third book, I thought that was particularly amusing, their encounter.
Yes, I did like that part. Anytime when Theon is made a fool of, I'm in! It's frustrating that in the 4th book Asha never has a chance and she's the true heir to the throne. She's trying to save them from losing everything and making Robb's same mistakes, but no one seems to care that more war means more death.
I finished reading last night, the fourth book. I've also read about the delays on the fifth book, they say it's going to be released in July, I'm going to venture and say it's not going to be released till December.
Also, Mark mentioned or predicted in the television thread that Dany and Jon are going to rule together; after having read the fourth, and knowing how Martin doesn't tie things up as neatly as a romantic story plays out, I have my doubts about that turn out.
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