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

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

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

when's the next volume due out

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

i am re-reading this series again.

hi guys.

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

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?).

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

(the first book in the series, that is)

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

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.

when the next one?

don't ask.

amazon says end of september.

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THIS fuckin guy.

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

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

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

YOU MOTHERFUCKER YOU KILLED XXXX!!!!!

XXXXXX XXXX CAN SUCK MY NUTS!!!!

omg the red wedding jesus christ i can't believe this shit happened.

i hate the lannisters so much (except tyrion)

I flipped through Game of Thrones in the bookstore a couple times based on Ian recommending this stuff but couldn't get myself to pull the trigger

omg matt i'm so glad you're reading these books.
you have a lot of BALLS OUT INSANITY to look forward to.

dave, it doesn't strike me as the kind of thing you'd be into honestly. Having never heard you mention anything involving knights in shining armor.

WHARE IS NEXT BOOK YOU FUCKS

seriously ian...what the HELL! it's crazy...like i mean even after the end of the first book you expect that "no one is safe"...to a degree...

the "red wedding" though...holy crap i have zero idea what is going to happen from here on out....

all my fav characters get killed.

jon snow better pull through for me. love that guy. and arya is awesome too.

never coming.
i should re-read the first four this winter so i don't go crazy. xp

hahaha M@tt that was the exact same reaction I had

oh man i probably shouldn't have said that in my first post, that's a big time spoiler, can a mod take the first line out?

xpost dan it was UNREAL...i seriously read those 4-5 page three times just to be like "um...did this just happen???"

i want a direwolf for xmas

i just finished a reread last week. book four is a lot better than i remember but nearly as omgwtf as the first three.

(thx for the mod fix, would hate to spoil that for someone)

The most irritating part of this interminable delay is that Book 5 was SUPPOSED TO BE DONE ALREADY. He was supposed to have finished Book 4 and found it too long and split it into two. WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A HEAD-START.

dave, it doesn't strike me as the kind of thing you'd be into honestly. Having never heard you mention anything involving knights in shining armor.

yeah that's the conclusion I came to myself after I read a few passages

I can fuck with some pulp but I'm more sci-fi / hard-boiled crime

people on this thread seem really into it though!! carry on with your feastening

The most irritating part of this interminable delay is that Book 5 was SUPPOSED TO BE DONE ALREADY. He was supposed to have finished Book 4 and found it too long and split it into two. WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A HEAD-START.

hahaha i got to the end of book four and read the meanwhile back on the wall part and hez like "don't worry its basically finished" lol george

yeah i had held off for a long time even though everyone at work was forcing this on me like some freaking nerd jehovah's witnesses...i saw how long they were and was like "oh by time i get done with all that reading the next one will be out"....i didn't realize how quick of a read a near 1000 page book could be.

If this guy dies before finishing this series I'm going to be very cross.

OK just finished storm of sword...

the last page....um....W.....T.....F??????

a lot of shit happened in the last half of that book.

i'm still trying to keep track of it all in my head.

oooooh, man

i read the prologue to feast for crows, but i'm getting the sense this is gonna be a whole nother can of worms, like focusing on other stuff not the arc of the first three??

Ah no, it's mostly just that it only focuses on a subset of the characters from the first three. Supposedly the other characters will return in the next book if it it ever comes out.

Yeah, basically he split the character arcs out into two distinct books, so the ones who mostly were ignored in A Storm of Swords should be front and center in the now-verging-on-mythical A Feast Of Crows.

okay sorry I'm retarded, the other one that I can't remember the name of is the mythical one

Dance of Death or whatever.

dance of dragons i think

Ahaha someone is mixing up his genre thrillers? It's A Dance with Dragons, according to His Lazy Majesty's web page.