Martin update

[D.Shaffer]

I lost interest for a bit, but I'm back to reading the series. I have yet to pick up Feast of Crows. Who DID manage to get into the book?

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Same here, but I stopped after the first.

I wished I did, but I'm like JoeG and I stopped after the third. I, too, will not touch another in the series until the whole thing is completed. It frustrated my family who knew my love of the series, I evangelized it to everyone I knew and got dozens of new fans of the series. I received the 4th and 5th book as gifts by some of those who I got in to the series. In each case the person who bought it for me as a gift said they wanted to read it when I was done, I promptly handed it over to them after I told them I'm not reading any of the series until the whole dang thing is completed.

They are still sitting on my shelf untouched. I won't buy whatever comes next unless it is the final one, but I will gladly gifts.

 

[Thanee]

You got the Storm of Swords, that's split into two parts then? Because there are only four books out yet.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Grog]

For me, until it's finished, I'm not picking up another book. I stopped at 3 and I'll wind up rereading them so I can remember what's going on.

Same here. Given how long it took after book 3 for us to see book 4, I wasn't about to buy it and reread the entire series (which I would have had to have done to get myself back up to speed) just to have another ridiculously long wait for book 5. Maybe I'll revisit the series once it's finished - if I'm still alive.

 

[replicant2]

For what it's worth, I'm getting a bit worried about this series overall. What started off as the best fantasy series I had read since Tolkien (through A Storm of Swords) took a misstep with A Feast for Crows. Crows for me was a bit of a let-down, in that, despite its length (700 pages), it failed to advance the story significantly.

Worse yet, it was a book that took five years to write. Storm came out in 2000, Crows in 2005.

Now we've been waiting two and a half years for a book that was supposedly mostly written two years ago. Martin had said that he was writing A Dance with Dragons at the same time as A Feast for Crows, as he had been planning to publish both as one book, but decided to split them into two due to its massive size.

While A Song of Ice and Fire is still a great series, I hope Martin can finish it as strong as he began. But like others here, I plan on waiting until the whole thing is done, as I'm forgetting plot points and characters now.

 

[Fast Learner]

I was prepared to dislike Feast, due to it missing my favorite characters, but I thought it turned out quite well, and now have new characters that I like.

When the fifth is about to come out, I'll surely read the first four again, and won't mind one bit. I reread 1-3 when 4 came out, and it worked out great.

 

[Minicol]

I lost interest for a bit, but I'm back to reading the series. I have yet to pick up Feast of Crows. Who DID manage to get into the book?

I did, and I loved it, though I was disappointed he did not take the path of the previous books, and split the series in two camps.

Anyways, who else can pull this off nowadays ? I hope he can finish the whole and I am looking forward to it.

 

[Steel_Wind]

It was nowhere near as good as Storm of Swords, and interleaved with ADwD it would undoubtedly be better.

That said, it was still enjoyable and I picked it up - well - in the metaphorical sense as I got it initially on pdf - and then never put it down.

My favorite way of consuming Martin was blocked by AFFC though. I absolutely love Roy Dotrice's audio book version of ASoIaF. Regrettably, Roy Dotrice was not available to do AFFC in the time permitted. Someone else did it instead. *Sigh*

I hope Dotrice does ADwD though.

If you have not listened to ASoIaF as narrated by Roy Dotrice, I urge you to do so. It is escapism via your Ipod on a grand scale.

 

[Blastin]

It was nowhere near as good as Storm of Swords, and interleaved with ADwD it would undoubtedly be better.

That said, it was still enjoyable and I picked it up - well - in the metaphorical sense as I got it initially on pdf - and then never put it down.

My favorite way of consuming Martin was blocked by AFFC though. I absolutely love Roy Dotrice's audio book version of ASoIaF. Regrettably, Roy Dotrice was not available to do AFFC in the time permitted. Someone else did it instead. *Sigh*

I hope Dotrice does ADwD though.

If you have not listened to ASoIaF as narrated by Roy Dotrice, I urge you to do so. It is escapism via your Ipod on a grand scale.

Yeah...this is how I "re-read" them when the next one is about to come out. Although, hearing an elderly english gentlemen read some of the more sexually graphic parts can be a bit amusing

 

[GrayIguana]

No Dance of Dragons yet.

The new viewpoint character - Loras Tyrell or Melisandre?

-Hyp.

I'm hoping that the new POV is Sandor Clegane.

and I really hope he can finish this series. Once Dance with Dragons is done, I hope the next books flow out a bit faster.