[June] What are you reading?

[Steel_Wind]

Agreed! The Braavosi are especially interesting.

I'm reading through the series for the first-time, so I didn't have to suffer the lengthy wait for A Feast for Crows. As a result, I think I'm enjoying it a bit more than I might otherwise. I can see why long-time readers were a bit disappointed, although the fairly common criticism that almost none of the main characters are present is surprising to me. I think at least half the surviving main characters are present.

One thing I've found off-putting about this one, though, is the deviation from titling the chapters by the character's name, and instead labeling them "The Soiled Knight" and so forth. I don't recall GRRM doing that in any of the previous three.

Jon, Tyrion and Daenerys are widely percevied to be the "major" characters of the series in terms of the overall Metaplot of the novels.

While the presence of many other characters in AFFC was enjoyable and quite cool, their absence from A Feast for Crows was a sore point for the vast majority of fans. Don't get me wrong, it was still a good read -- but I don't think it was up to par with the previous three novels.

While AFFC was released in November 2005, A Storm of Swords, the last novel to feature Jon Dany and Tyrion was released in November 2000.

It is now the first day of Summer, 2011. So yeah, that is a LONG FRIKKIN TIME to wait for the story to resume. When I left Jon Snow on the Wall at the end of A Storm of Swords when I read the book for the first time, 9/11 had not yet happened and Bill Clinton was still President. (Admittedly, Willie's bags were packed and Dubbya was behind the wheel in the U-Haul in the driveway, honking the horn, but still...)

The world has, literally, changed during that time span.

*Sigh* Three weeks from today and the wait finally comes to an end!!

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I've had nothing to contribute in past threads as I was sadly one of the 58% of adults who stopped reading after college (mostly). [I know, I know...a gamer, GM no less, who doesn't read regularly?]

I'm about half-way through [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Undergates-Aeons-Gate-Book/dp/1616142421"]Tome of the Undergates[/ame]. Book one of the Aeons Gate series.

I was a bit worried about the maturity level of the book after reading the back cover of the book (one of the female characters breaks wind in her sleep). But the book has really surprised me. I haven't cared about a group of adventurers this much since the original Dragonlance trilogy. The premise is that being an adventurer is the most bottom-of-the-barrel profession one can practice, but it brings with it a freedom that no other profession can. The interaction between the members of the group has been at times deep and mainly entertaining.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I stopped reading before college.

That said, just finished [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Chronicles-Mysteries-Prayers-Suffering/dp/0865476810"]The Pain Chronicles[/ame] by Melanie Thernstrom. Excellent and honest book.

On to [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Cthulhu-Mythos/dp/0978991184"]The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos[/ame].

 

[ggroy]

I stopped reading before college.

I've had nothing to contribute in past threads as I was sadly one of the 58% of adults who stopped reading after college (mostly). [I know, I know...a gamer, GM no less, who doesn't read regularly?]

I largely stopped reading fiction regularly, sometime during college. I only started regularly reading fiction again, a few years ago.

Most of my "pleasure reading" over the last 25+ years, was reading highly technical non-fiction books (such as engineering and advanced mathematics textbooks).

 

[Shade]

It is now the first day of Summer, 2011. So yeah, that is a LONG FRIKKIN TIME to wait for the story to resume. When I left Jon Snow on the Wall at the end of A Storm of Swords when I read the book for the first time, 9/11 had not yet happened and Bill Clinton was still President. (Admittedly, Willie's bags were packed and Dubbya was behind the wheel in the U-Haul in the driveway, honking the horn, but still...)

The world has, literally, changed during that time span.

Well, when you put it that way...