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[bryant]

Hey, look, A Feast for Crows is done. By which we mean that the massively huge tome Martin was writing has been split into two parts, geographically, due to the physical limits of book side. The first part is complete and going into production.

Well, hey, I'll take that.

Comments

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!! That's awesome news (that Feast is finished) and I don't mind the idea of it being spilt into two.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who didn't like A Game of Thrones? :(

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I got about 5 chapters into the first book before I gave up.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I read the whole thing, but i didn't care about anyone except the bastard and the dwarf, and i was not willing to put up with any more of that drama and soap opera. I find the series's popularity among my friends and acquaintances baffling.

[bryant]

I think Martin's an excellent prose stylist, and I like big epic fantasy if it's done well. I think it would have been better if it wasn't going to be seven books; I'd rather he'd have chosen a smaller segment of the story.

But it's an anodyne to the run of the mill "our hero is noble and always right" crap that you find in most epic fantasy.

[head58.livejournal.com]

I always thought you're not supposed to like any of the characters, and that yes, it is pure soap opera. Anyone looking for magical medieval-esque fantasy was bound to be disappointed. I'll not try to convince you to like it though as I know full well it just isn't the thing for everybody.

I've loved the series thus far, but then I got about 13 books into the Deryni stuff before I gave up so the sheer wordiness of Martin was unlikey to scare me off. And 3000 pages of this still was more enjoyable than 300 of Jonathan Strange...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I can't understand how you can read a book where you don't like any of the characters. It sounds like an especially unpleasant way to torture yourself.

I wasn't looking for magical medieval-esque fantasy; i was just looking for a good book. I agree with Bryant that GRRM is a great prose stylist, but i'm not going to slog through another brick of a book just because of his prose stylings.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

I got about thirty pages into it. Didn't like it at all.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I've never read any of Martin's fantasy books, but his little werewolf noir novella, The Skin Trade - that was him, wasn't it? - was, I thought when I was in late high school early college, the coolest thing I'd ever read anywhere. So I have fond feelings towards his work in the abstract.

[bryant]

That's him. I felt that way about The Armageddon Rag.