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

i was really hoping the hound would just get fed up w/joffrey and suddenly behead him in one clean motion

one of things i really liked abt the fourth book was how it suggested all these counterfactuals - what if mad aerys had allowed cersei to marry rhaegar

― ᵉ( ᷅ʷɣʷ)ᵊ (Lamp), Friday, May 20, 2011 8:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

one of my favorite running jokes is how martin keeps letting you think x character might get sent to the wall (ned, theon, tyrion) and lets you get all excited about that for a minute before bein like 'lol fuk u' and goes in a different direction

tbh i kept hoping ned would show up at the wall well into clash of kings ;_;

he loves to set plots almost in motion and then pull the rug out from under you!!

WHAT IF.... arya teamed up with sam the slayer???

WHAT IF.... brienne swore allegiance to Roberts bastard???

lol @ sam the slayer

arya is gonna be one tuff fuckin broad imo.

u think shes for real blind or what

Anyone else find the Arya stuff in the last book a little lame? Like she wandered into your standard fantasy training to be the greatest warrior shit

i have my doubts re: her being perma-blind

re: standard fantasy training - she seems to be turning into a creepy psycho more than a greatest warrior so idk

Creepy psychos are awesome, tho

yeah i thought she was gonna be an assassin or some shit, not like some do-gooder

kinda assuming she will leave the facelessbros at some point and team up with jon, danaerys or tyrion

but i think a lot of wrong shit tbh

i'm convinced bran is turning into a creepy psycho, too.

Rickon is going to end up uniting the 7 Kingdoms and the Wildlings

arya + daenerys wd be amazing, too.

remy, no!! Bran is going to be awesome!

Faceless folk seem like hacks to me, would enjoy it if she just killed that kindly old man.

yeah no way bran can be a psycho with jojen reed supervising him

Rickon is going to end up uniting the 7 Kingdoms and the Wildlings

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, May 23, 2011 4:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont get why martin wont just kill him off already

HODOR ftw

im still #teampodrick

should we start a dance with dragons thread

probably but I'm lazy

also can i just say how much it annoys me that martin titled three of the boys X of Y and is now changing up his prepositions

the last two should be called The Winds Between Winter and A Dream Before Spring

a dream up spring

hahaha

trying to reread these in anticipation gawd is bran the worst

rickon is worse

HODOR

more like BLODOR

THE HODIARTRIST

lol whats your beef w/rickon max - he doesnt have any POVs and he literally ceases to exist after the 2nd book

hes nuts, way too hyper, cant control his wolf, its like, chill out lil bro

speaking of shit that annoys me in these books

why are the starks "words" (dont even get me started on calling it "words" instead of "motto") in the present progressive?? "winter is coming" sucks -- what about "winter will come" or "winter always comes" or something? even "winter comes" would be better.

haha i dont like him for the same reasons tbh - when he went off on his own w/osha i felt bad for her because i knew she'd end up being eaten by Shaggydog because hes a brat who sets the wolf on anyone who tells him what to do

Pishposh, it's clearly a reference to Ezra Pound's parody of Sumer Is Icumen In

Winter is icumen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!

The Starks are high modernists for sure.

one of the things im really enjoying this read through is finding little easter egg nods to other sff writers reminds me of what a total fanboy martin is @ heart

speaking of shit that annoys me in these books

why are the starks "words" (dont even get me started on calling it "words" instead of "motto") in the present progressive?? "winter is coming" sucks -- what about "winter will come" or "winter always comes" or something? even "winter comes" would be better.

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Monday, May 23, 2011 10:10 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

s1ocki wanted me to tell you that 'winter is coming' is way doper than all those other suggestions (i agree w/him)

tell s1ocki to start fukken posting again...

hmmm

finished the fourth book & still feel p let down by the series. i mean im happy that dance/dragons is finally coming out but the reread kinda just reminded me of all things i dislike abt the series particularly as an 'epic fantasy'. i think the thing that bothered me the most is the sorta hand-waving that goes on around the idea that theres a deeper level going on thing, which is sorta a dumm trope in general in i think implemented particularly badly here w/ the oldtown stuff.

also littlefinger as devious political tactician sorta wears thin - at one point he tells sansa that cersei was fucking things up faster than he had anticipated which a) seemed like a nod to his original idea that he could timeskip after book 3 and b) how did lf even know cersei wld end up in charge?

Tyrion covered his mouth and belched politely[... The first thing he had done after taking up residence in the Tower of the Hand was inquire after the finest cook in the city and take her into his service. This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter. Each dish had come with its own wine.

i think the thing that bothered me the most is the sorta hand-waving that goes on around the idea that theres a deeper level going on thing, which is sorta a dumm trope in general in i think implemented particularly badly here w/ the oldtown stuff.

what do you mean by this? i was under the impression that the "oldtown stuff" (i.e. the maesters conspiracy against magic? i guess?) was going to be explained in more depth in the next book?

i do think littlefinger's kinda getting lamer and lamer, i'd really like to see someone outsmart him for once (hoping its not some super obvious sansa-learns-how-to-be-a-schemer-from-him-and-then-disposes-of-him thing)

yeah the littlefinger/sansa stuff is pretty boring/stupid

This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter. Each dish had come with its own wine.

no olives, huh

'i wonder what a medieval feast would have looked like eh i guess i can just make some shit up'

tbf dude looks like he must've done meticulous research

ha i googled that phrase and it was on one of those 'open the book nearest to hand and type the xxth sentence of the yyyth page' threads in another place, and all they had glossed it with was 'fat author is fat'