A Dance With Dragons (2011)

I hate you, George RR Martin. You are an evil, sadistic little man, aren't you?

First I had to go through Feast for Crows without my favorite characters. I actually thought they were going to be right around the corner up until the last page when - surprise! I find out they were moved to the next book. Okay. "No problem," I said. "I'll wait, Georgey Porgey. But it better be good."

But it wasn't. Oh, how it wasn't. (He made this girl cry.)

There seems to be a huge misconception that this is actually reading material, judging by how the average rating isn't 1 star.

How does someone start a series so magnificently and then deteriorate so magnificently quickly?

The problem here is that NOT ENOUGH HAPPENS. Phrases are repeated until you want to smash your book or reading device with a hammer. Tyrion keeps "taking a piss."

SPOILER ALERT? DOES IT MATTER? Tyrion spends the entire book just /traveling/ to where Daenerys is. At first you think, cool! Daenerys gets to meet Tyrion! But then you just forget that that was ever his destination. And Cersei? I think she got her comeuppance in this book, but really all I remember is where do whores go? You know nothing, Jon Snow. I'mma take a piss off the boat now. ( )

Too many questions left unanswered ( )

Í þessari sögu segir frá tilraunum Daenerys til að ná að stjórna borg sem herir hennar hafa hertekið, línudansi Jons við að halda varðliði sínu hlutlausu í valdabaráttu ættanna um leið og hann reynir að safna liði til að verjast væntanlegu áhlaupi yfirnáttúrulegra hersveita, stöðugum vandræðum Tyrions o.s.frv.
Taktur þessarar bókar fannst mér hægari en í fyrri bókunum en hún er heilsteyptari. Enn sem fyrr drepur Martin aðalsöguhetjur en hann hefur líka vakið sumar upp, óþekkjanlegar og hamrammar.
Hlakka til að takast á við næstu sögu Martins í bókaflokknum sem enn er ekki komin út en skal viðurkenna að sumir hlutir fara í taugarnar á mér, t.d. sömu orðatiltæki og gjörðir einstaklinga úr fjarlægum heimshornum og úr gerólíkum menningarsamfélögum. Einum of mikil einhæfni. ( )

I will never tire of Tormund Giantsbane and his dick jokes. However, at this point in the saga there's just too many pages between visits to any given storyline, which makes for frustrating reading. On the other hand, there are some gems in here - like Theon's horrorshow arc and the hilarity of Victarion Greyjoy taking himself so very seriously. Looking forward to the threads beginning to merge back together at some point and finding out what happened to some of those characters who fell off the map for 1000 pages or so. ( )

959 pages small print. will take some time to finish. I read the Game of Thrones series as well as watched the Series. This book starts with Tyrion Lannister, the dwarf, after killing his father the King. He has fled Kings Landing with the help of Varys, the master of whispers.