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Really? Are you kidding me? Is that how it ends? Just like every chapter in these books this book just ends in a cliffhanger. I know, I know, there are supposed to be two more books but come on! I need resolution! What happens to everyone? Where does this all culminate? Give me something! God! ( ![]() I think George RR Martin is just dragging stuff on now. Introducing people just to kille them a few chapters later. I'm getting rather bored with the whole series. Great book full of twists and turns. An excellent addition to the Song of Ice and Fire septology. Finally... I am finally done with this book. It's taken me years to get through this whole series, reading a bit at a time. I like the Game of Thrones series, but I think I prefer the TV show. The books can just get a little tedious at times. George RR Martin tends to repeat himself a lot, and these books could be so much shorter if the repetition and the naming of all these houses and lords and the colors of their banners and names of their ships was cut down. I still enjoyed them, I just think they have some serious pacing issues sometimes. Hooray, I've finished Game of Thrones (for now). Time to move on to everything else I still want to read! I really enjoyed getting back into this series.
It's terrible. Martin has taken the concept of the pot-boiler to an extreme — it's a novel where nothing happens other than continual seething, roiling turmoil. He whipsaws the reader through a dozen different, complex story lines where characters struggle to survive in a world wrecked by civil war — one other problem is that I'd hit a chapter about some minor character from the previous four books, and struggled to remember who the heck this person is, and why I'm supposed to care — and again, nothing is resolved. Well, not quite: major characters are brutally killed, if they're male, and graphically and degradingly humiliated into irrelevance if they're female. I guess that's a resolution, all right — perhaps the last book will be a lovingly detailed description of a graveyard, draped with naked women mourning? Martin remains boundlessly creative, sketching out intricately realized new civilizations, societies, religions, and factions on one continent while continuing to complicate the established political agendas on another. No part of his world ever feels like an afterthought or an easy fantasy cliché. Even so, “A Dance With Dragons,” for its bounty of adventure, is more about Mr. Martin marshaling his forces in anticipation of the cycle’s final two books. Was "A Dance With Dragons" worth the six-year wait? Absolutely. Is contained inContainsHas the adaptation
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