Feast For Crows rocks so far!(small spoilers)

[Starman]

So will "A Dance with Dragons", the next one due out be only the other half of Crows? Or will it be a a full book?

I thought Martin said somewhere that it was going to include more than just what he didn't include in Feast.

SteelWind, I saw the first three of those on the SoIaF boards. I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't pick up on any of them, other than I knew Sandor wasn't dead. I was just reading too fast to find out what happened. Number four is an interesting theory, though. If we had Jon's viewpoint, we might have more information to go on to see how accurate it is.

 

[Steel_Wind]

So will "A Dance with Dragons", the next one due out be only the other half of Crows? Or will it be a a full book?

According to Martin's comment in AFFC's postscript "Meanwhile Back on the Wall..." ADwD will be essentially the other half of AFFC. At the time the decision to split AFFC was made, there were 300 pages or so of Jon and Dany left to write.

As to whether or not ADwD will include more chapters on Arya is unknown. I hope that it does. I expect it will be a Jon and Dany fest though - along with Tyrion and Davos - which can only be a good thing

After ADwD, we will be moving forward to the end of the series and resolution of the cliffhangers that confront the reader in AFFC and - presumably - will confront us again in ADwD.

GRRM says the series will probably take 7 books now to finish. Given the glacial pace of AFFC, I wonder if it will require eight.

 

[Digital M@]

Seeing how I don't think I will enjoy this book very much, could one skip this and pickup the next book without missing too much. Maybe if I just read the Sam chapters and a few of the others but I do not wish to read a book dedicaated to Jaie and his sister.

 

[Steel_Wind]

Seeing how I don't think I will enjoy this book very much, could one skip this and pickup the next book without missing too much. Maybe if I just read the Sam chapters and a few of the others but I do not wish to read a book dedicaated to Jaie and his sister.

No. You won't be able to skip it.

Don't get me wrong - it's not a bad book; it's a good book. If you are a big fan of the series - it's a very good book.

The problem is that the others in the series have been GREAT books. Accordingly, it looks a little dimmer by reason of its company.

Compared to 95% of the pap that passes as fantasy fiction published every year, this still walks all over the competition.

But Storm of Swords it isn't.

 

[EricNoah]

I'm about 100 pages in and am enjoying it immensely. I also like knowing another volume is (probably) only a year away.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I appreciate your enthusiasm, but could you elaborate, much as BastionLightbringer did a couple of posts ago, on what about the series that you like so much?

One thing I realized, however, is that I had the same problem with Peter Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" series. Talk about sex and violence! I liked a lot of the characters and concepts in the first two books (one book for those outside the US), but the extreme, graphic nature was a severe turn off.

I enjoyed the books well enough, though I didn't find them great. The sex was excessive for me, and if the sex & violence in the first 100 pages was enough to draw you off, I'd not bother with more, because it only gets worse from there. Catelyn's chapters were the only one's I really detested, but by the time the trilogy was finished, I was done with the series.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Death has not improved Catelyn at all. I like her even less now that she's dead. How does that work?

Ugh. Aside from all of the gratitious and completely unnessecary sex scenes and GRRM's love of killing off good guys just for shock value, Catelyn was my least favorite thing about the original trilogy.

Still, I'm looking forward to reading this book. It's next on my reading list after I finish Lonesome Dove.

 

[EricNoah]

Catelyn was my least favorite thing about the original trilogy.

Ha we all have our "least favorites." For me, it's Sam ... blech!

I personally like it when an author kills off his characters. It leaves you with a real sense of suspense when you truly don't know if the other characters are going to live or die.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Ha we all have our "least favorites." For me, it's Sam ... blech!

I'm not too keen on Sam either. Freakin' annoying crybaby is what he is.

I personally like it when an author kills off his characters. It leaves you with a real sense of suspense when you truly don't know if the other characters are going to live or die.

Well, I'm not saying that major characters should be invulnerable, but after the "Red Wedding" scene in Book 3, it became very apparant to me that a surefire way to get yourself killed off in GRRM's books is to be a good guy.

 

[Endur]

I think the book was great. Although I agree I was hoping for another 1200 pages instead of 680.

As to Sam & Arya, I don't mind the number of chapters we received. I would have liked more about Maester Aemon, but what we received is sufficient.

As for Cersei, I think you realize that this is the last time we will see her with this many chapters. Its because she is the only POV character who was in King's Landing when important events were going on.

My favorite points of view in all of his books:
Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, Jaime Lannister, Tyrion Lannister, Dunc