I do / don't like George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice & Fire series

[Dave Blewer]

I voted Other...

I do not like the books overall, I love the books and can't wait to read a Feast for Crows...

The first option did not really define my thoughts on the book...

 

[WizarDru]

I do not like the books overall, I love the books and can't wait to read a Feast for Crows...

I'm afraid I'm not following what you're saying, here. Are you saying you enjoy the individual books, but not the series overall, or what? The first part of the sentence seems to directly contradict the second part.

 

[Dave Blewer]

Yeah, sorry about that my ability to use my native tongue must have been malfunctioning this morning

What I meant to say was that, To say that overall I like the series is underestimating my appreciation of the books. Overall, implies that you like it in spite of its flaws. Im my opinion the series has no flaws I love every single sentence.

A series I like overall inspite of its flaws would be the Simon R Green Deathstalker series. Its hokum, but its extremely fun hokum.

 

[WizarDru]

A series I like overall inspite of its flaws would be the Simon R Green Deathstalker series. Its hokum, but its extremely fun hokum.

I tried Simon Green's Hawk and Slayer books, but I just had trouble getting into them. I might try picking them up again later. I will say this, he's a pretty amusing speaker. I saw him at Worldcon a couple of years ago, and he was very funny and very British.

 

[myrdden]

I haven't picked up the third book yet. I liked the first two mainly because they were quite different. The biggest deterent to me getting the third book was mainly the oversized paperback format that it was published in. I do most of my reading on the road since I travel so much for my job. The oversized format is a bit awkward for me. I also lost a lot of excitement for the story while waiting for the paperback version of the book.

However, reading this thread has piqued my interest again. I think I may have to revisit this series.

Myrdden

 

[Mistwell]

I'm liking the short story by George R R Martin taken from this series in the most recent issue of Dragon.

 

[GreyOne]

Best series EVAR.

The Red Wedding still has me all shaken up.

 

[WizarDru]

The Red Wedding has EVERYONE shook up. I had to put the book down and just sit for a few minutes. I was in SHOCK. It was that unexpected. I've talked to others, and they felt the same way.

But the epilogue of the book. Oh, my. A certain family is going to be much smaller, very soon. Yikes.

 

[Storminator]

But the epilogue of the book. Oh, my. A certain family is going to be much smaller, very soon. Yikes.

I predict it'll go to zero. I've heard too many times how many Frey there are, and they did the bread and salt. Magic is coming back and they broke a very big rule...

PS

 

[jdavis]

The Red Wedding has EVERYONE shook up. I had to put the book down and just sit for a few minutes. I was in SHOCK. It was that unexpected. I've talked to others, and they felt the same way.

But the epilogue of the book. Oh, my. A certain family is going to be much smaller, very soon. Yikes.

The Red Wedding was the point where I realized I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Up until then I just thought this was a very good series of books, after that I realized it was much more. Talk about unexpected, talk about violent, that's one of those moments where you have to put the book down to compose yourself.