I started reading this a while back because of all the recommendations it got on this board. I'm a few chapters in and I'm losing my patience with it. It's been dealing more with mostly family domestic problems which I couldn't care less about. I though it would pick up soon but apparently it hasn't so about ready to drop it.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 1:57
Yeah I think sucking cocks would be more your speed.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 2:44
Srsly dude keep going, it is so worth it youll thank anon till the end of days.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 3:19
You are after all reading a multi-volume series with each volume clocking in at from 700 to over a thousand pages depending on the edition, to think that they'd bring out the big guns "a few chapters in" is a bit weird.
I've known a few people who've only gotten hooked at around the last third of the book, but it's your time, do with it what you will. I do think you're being a bit hasty though.
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Anonymous2007-12-10 3:59
alright I'll try to be more patient
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Anonymous2007-12-10 23:50
Patient nothing. If youre not loving every second of it there is something wrong in your brain.
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Anonymous2007-12-13 9:05
I find that song of fire and ice is boring and long-winded.
this is coming from someone who read 6 of the malazan books of the fallen in a week then, with no more out at the time, started from the gardens of the moon again
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Anonymous2007-12-13 9:16
It's a slow starter... but fuck, OP, stick to comics.
Are you saying that there's something wrong with comics?
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Anonymous2007-12-13 23:24
How has no one yet told this guy it's "The Song Of Ice and Fire" not vice versa? I know it's a petty thing, but it just sounds wrong.
A Game of Thrones is not boring in the slightest. The way the world and the characters open up is fascinating. I think the problem some readers have with it is because they take to it thinking it's going to be another bullshit generic fantasy with demon hordes and mysterious mages right out the gate. There are only 3 major battles within the first book, and then a handful of duels/small confrontations. This upsets some readers of cookie cutter work who are not familiar with a more lathered pacing. This first book acts more like a who-dunnit mystery than a typical fantasy jaunt. It introduces us to the cast of literally hundreds and a myriad of relationships that are necessary to understand what has gone before and what will take place in the context of the series. However, there's plenty of "Holy shit!" moments that knock the socks off of the "twists" of other fantasy work. By the end we are fully prepped for the "Holy Mother-of-Fuck I'm cuming through my eyes!" events of the later volumes. I think anyone who enjoys a rich and layered story with diverse and vibrant characters should love this book. Anyone else... should stick to television.
As for the part that hooked me: I was intrigued right from the prologue, but the exact moment that made certain I would not set the book down until I had finished is "The things I do for love". Page 80 in the paperback version I had.
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Anonymous2007-12-19 3:13
Why hasn't book five come out yet! ARGH
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Anonymous2007-12-19 18:06
Song of Ice and Fire is the one series I've read that manages to successfully pull off the level of intricacy that it does. Even Tolkien, to me, never really got all of his details off the ground in the way ASoIaF does.
I think there's enough hints of the cool stuff to come in the first 50-100 pages or so to make it more than a "slow start".
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Anonymous2007-12-20 3:08
I'm waiting to borrow a copy of A Feast of Crows from my friend, but the series is just plain weird. Every single time you think there is going to be a little resolution, it turns in a bit WTF HAX moment. I really didn't care about most of the characters but after a while I started to care because I was thinking, "YOU ASS, QUIT IT! Stop jerking them and us around like a fucking cock tease!"
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Anonymous2007-12-20 16:00
Fantasy is for lose.
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Anonymous2007-12-21 1:21
I gave A Storm of Swords to my aunt for Newtonmas about 100 pages before I finished it. Part of me very much regrets that decision. D:
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Anonymous2007-12-22 14:05
GODDAMIT WHERE'S MY DANCE WITH DRAGONS?
NEED MOAR ARYA KTHX. LOLI BLIND ASSASIN FTW.
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Anonymous2007-12-23 2:45
>>16 is right, FFC showed pretty solidly that the series depends on Arya for 95% of its winningest scenes.
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Anonymous2007-12-23 22:30
>>17
Arya scenes were incidentally the ones I looked forward to least. I just couldn't stand how fucked up that cute little girl was becoming ;_; Killing people, talking major shit, hitching rides across the ocean, and she's like 11 or something. It was awesome and depressing at the same time.
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Anonymous2007-12-31 22:36
>>17
I prefered the Jaime chapters. Arya was always sorta "meh" imo.
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Anonymous2008-01-04 15:22
I have not read it, and have no judgement on it's quality.
I've only read the first two books, but I love it. There's only two things I don't really like:
First is that it always seems to be "Things are pretty bad... BUT WAIT, THEY GET WORSE". It's just one thing after another and there's no closure or resolution at all. Of course, I realise that those things will probably come with the later books, but still...
The second is that things have been getting more and more 'magicky'. I know that because the dragons are born magic returns to the world blah blah, but just because it's explained doesn't mean I like it. I preferred it when it was just mideval stuff with some mystic influences, but by the end of book 2 we've already got priestesses plopping out shadowbabies, immortal sorcerers trying to suck out people's souls, kids doing Vulcan mindmelds with wolves, etc...