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Loading... A Dance With Dragons (2011)by George R. R. Martin
  
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 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 inA Song of Ice and Fire 1-5: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, a Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin ContainsA Dance With Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust by George R. R. Martin A Dance With Dragons 2: After the Feast by George R. R. Martin I guerrieri del ghiaccio. Le cronache del ghiaccio e del fuoco vol. 10 by George R. R. Martin I fuochi di Valyria. Le cronache del ghiaccio e del fuoco vol. 11 by George R. R. Martin Le Trône de fer, Tome 13: Le Bûcher d'un roi by George R. R. Martin Le trône de fer, Tome 14: Les dragons de Meereen by George R. R. Martin Has the adaptation
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Many readers have picked up these books through the success of the TV series - a warning, the TV series has always made slight plot changes, now the two are almost in sync the plots are starting to diverge. The TV show is brilliant but the books are slower and with far more acute character development. Just start at the beginning and savour them. I've taken two years to read these, rationing myself to enjoy the experience - now they're complete I feel a little bereft and just as eager to find out the next chapter. (