Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)

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and, well, i liked them (otherwise i wouldn't have gotten through 2500-some-odd pages). martin is really good at the serial-style cliffhanger while simultaneously working a big, slow-burn plot.

i found that his character development was especially strong; the long build-up to us REALLY meeting jamie lannister was terrific, as was the way he cleverly manipulates reader sympathy in regards to pretty much all of the lannisters.

dude's a little obsessed with rape, though.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

i mean i appreciated how unfanciful and brutally, horribly "realistic" the books are, especially in comparison to the flipper-dee-doo, flipper-dee-dee style of most fantasy, but... it always seemed to come back to rape.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

so when is a feast for crows coming out in paperback? i can't afford no hardcover.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

yer in for a long-ish wait, i think.. it just came out in hardback in november. go to a library!

and yeah, martin is a little obsessed with rape. and incest. and adultery.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

maybe i will go to the library... more likely i will end up splurging on paycheck day though!!

― slocki at antexit's house (antexit), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

This dude's middle name is Railroad?!

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

also do you know when the next one is due? it's presumably... written already? so perhaps not as long a wait?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 January 2006 21:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I am starting this now (a friend bought the hardcover otherwise I would have just waited.) I got IMMEDIATELY confused though and I am having damndest time figuring out what was going on in the prologue haha.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

you've read the first three books right??

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

But I finished them a couple of months ago, I guess, and I appear to have completely forgotten a couple of plot points. Am I supposed to know who the "alchemist" in the prologue was/is?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I didn't. I think.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh okay then maybe I am supposed to be confused haha. I read that and then the next chapter I was like, "The Prophet?!?! Who the fuck is the Prophet? Goddammit I am not reading the other three books to catch up!" haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

All I want to know is when is Arya is going to be reunited with her STUPID WOLF. She can't travel through the forest and have hunting dreams and be unknowingly saved by Nymesteria (or whatever her name is, I don't have the book here) and NOT CATCH ON, DUMMY. Ugh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

Haha my friend who I loaned the first three books to is in the middle of book two and he was like "Arya get's reunited with her wolf soon, right? RIGHT? I know it's going to happen. No don't tell me. But I know it's going to happen."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

I am halfway through the first book. Why do the little mens have hairs on their toeses.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 05:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

a feast for bros

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 05:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

TYRION LANNISTER I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 05:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

seriously thinking about picking up some decks of the card game tonight, folks.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

ian, i would love to build an Arya deck and kick ur ass

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

kind of annoyed that the original starter sets are all sold out. they look like the best entry point.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 17:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Can we order them? Surely they must be somewhere in New York.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

BOOK. FIVE. WANT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

If you want to visualize that demand as being emphasized by me spilling the cheerios out of my bowl and banging it against the arm of my high chair, you may.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

there are other starter sets available, laura, but not the first one revolving around lannister/stark/baratheon... other sets include greyjoy, targaryen, martell, etc. i am gonna do some research and when you are back in NY we should buy a couple different decks and see how things work out.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is there a straight Greyjoy set? Those are pretty much my favorite chapters, especially in Feast for Crows (unless I am confusing books which is entirely possible).

― adam (adam), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think you play a straight greyjoy deck, if you wanted to. I don't know. Wikipedia is both iluminating and mystifying on the subject.

What is the accepted online resource for finding high-quality CCG criticism???

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

You know I'm gonna have to go Stark.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Deck builds are often referred to as being either Nedly or Jamie. A Nedly deck, named after the character Eddard "Ned" Stark, is defined as a deck that has a theme which is relatively true to the story contained in the books that AGoT is based on. A Jamie deck, named after the character Jamie Lannister, is a deck that is built to win by any means necessary

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

i don't understand any of this

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's like magic the gathering.
except with more convoluted game mechanics.
and with the game of fire & ice characters & setting.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

no reliance on D&D archetypes

reliance no, parody yes. the "it's a dwarf.... with an axe!!!¡!11lololol geddit" stuff in the first book is sub-pratchett at best :-\

― aphid bokmål (dude dude), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

oh, that's hardly something that's emphasized; the closest thing i think there is to a D&D archetype in the first book is probably Ned--lawful good to the max.

when's the next volume due out

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 23:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

it seems HBO have acquired the TV rights. Can this possibly work?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957532.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

The fact that it's HBO makes it more promising.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

i am re-reading this series again.

hi guys.

when is the next book coming out? wikipedia says "hopefully 2007."

― ian, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

When I try to open that link up there the page has this horrible ad I can't get to go away, but I hear they are doing the series like 1 book = 1 season, which I think is a brilliant approach to an adaptation of a fantasy series.

A fantasy series I have yet to start reading. I am totally stealing my mom's copy of Game of Thrones this weekend though (this is the first book, right?).

― nickalicious, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

i can't get past the first three pages of this.

― akm, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

(the first book in the series, that is)

― akm, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

nicka, you will love this i am fairly certain.
and yes, that's the first one.

― ian, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

10 months pass...

I wonder if Nickalicious read this.

Does an ILXor play either the card game or board game based on these books?
Got a bunch of cards cheap, totally playing this shit.

― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 03:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

when the next one?

― s1ocki, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

don't ask.

― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

amazon says end of september.

― ian, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

― Szimeon Tarbuş (☪), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

THIS fuckin guy.

― ian, Monday, 10 November 2008 00:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

What the hell is going on with this guy? He's got like six million projects.

― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

With Robert Jordan gone, someone had to claim the throne.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

this guy is going to die and leave an unfinished legacy.

― Joe Pinot (rockapads), Monday, 10 November 2008 08:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

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