re: How Many People Have Actually Read the "Song of Ice and Fire" Series?

Just finished dancing with dragons.

Loved the books, though i did have some major new character fatique once we started getting into Dornish characters. Once I got over that, I was full steam ahead. The detail, the fully developed characters (so that even some of the "bad" people you end up liking, etc.) are all beyond most things I read. Its not aware winning prose, but it is excellently written for what its supposed to be.

Martin needs to hurry with the last two - my 93 year old grandmother in law in almost finished with her second read-through of the complete series since August.

I'm reading Storm of Swords now. I kept reading how there was a really big event in the middle of the book that they were going to use to split the book into two season. I'm positive I just read it.


I don't even want to read anymore right now. I feel a heaviness in my stomach. Damn you George RR Martin

Rw?

I loved the first 3 books but to be honest I found this review on Amazon to be much more enjoyable than A Dance with Dragons. This is just the last part of the review and apparently Anne Groell is Martin's editor though I find it hard to believe that ADwD was actually edited.

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He set down his copy of A Dance with Dragons with an unsatisfying thud. Words are wind, he mused. Speaking of which... He raised a leg and broke his word. It smelt of stale bacon grease and mashed neeps.

By then, his bladder was full to bursting from the morning's coffee, so he headed to the latrine before he pissed his smallclothes. Reek, reek, it rhymes with leak. Along the way, he passed the receptionist from the adjoining office. She was a pretty brown-haired thing, a woman of about four-and-twenty, fully flowered.

"Where do whores go?", he asked her.

She slapped him.

He entered the men's bathroom and undid his breeches. The urinals were crofted from gleaming white porcelain and bore the seal of American Standard. Whilst it received his golden stream of the morning's piss, he contemplated how this was a metaphor for how Ser Martin had raised the leg and done the same to the continuity of A Song of Ice and Fire and the first three books.

He angrily composed an e-mail to Martin's editor whilst zipping up his breeches. He was only a man grown, unskilled in the ways of editing, but such was his wroth.

You know nothing, Anne Groell...

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LINK (Second review)

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Rw?

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Not sure what you mean here.