Song of Ice and Fire

[thistlechaser]

Spammy Thistle is spammy tonight! But at least this post will be behind a cut to avoid spoilers.



Holy cow, how many main characters can he kill off in a chapter? As much as I have been avoiding spoilers, I saw one that Catelyn dies. I wasn't upset in the least, her chapters are the dullest ones in the book. But... but... Robb was killed, too! I didn't like him much, though he was interesting enough to read about, but he would have been the last person I thought would be killed! (Seriously, I had thought he was going to become a successful king and make it all the way to the end.)

Looking back on it, I'm amused at myself: I read the paragraph three times, thinking I must have somehow misunderstood something or the words "thrust a longsword into his chest and through his heart and twisted it" could somehow have multiple meanings. :P

Man, I love GRRM's willingness to kill characters off! And yay no more Catelyn chapters! (Though the same spoiler implied she might not stay dead... I'm not seeing how that would work, since they cut her throat, but I guess I'll see!)



Best Books Ever. If you haven't read the Song of Ice and Fire books, do it! They're so very unlike other books!

Comments

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

If you like Martin's style, you might want to check out The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

I liked Lamora better than the Song of Ice and Fire, but almost everybody disagrees with me on that score.

[machinegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are enjoying the series. :) I got into it right after Clash was put into trade paperback, so I got to wait for Feast. And am still waiting for A Dance With Dragons. Whatever you do, don't friend GRRM's LJ, because every time he posts about football, you will want to punch your monitor. Dance was supposed to be halfway done when Feast was published. That was like, four? five? years ago. He STILL hasn't finished Dance. I don't care if he's not my bitch, as Neil Gaiman says, jerk needs to stop watching football, stop going on random vacations, stop editing his crappy Wild Cards series (which is HORRENDOUS, BTW), and work on Dance.

Ok, rant done.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Isn't it mind-blowing? I mean, the audacity of killing Robb, especially. Plus everyone else who's been offed. I mean, JUST.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Yay, now we can stop dancing around the subject of the Red Wedding on your posts.

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

So you still haven't found out about Beric Dondarrion yet eh? That changed the tone of the book quite a bit for me, especially regarding the Red Wedding and such. Right now I'm just really frustrated that I can't find a copy of the last book.

[liedra.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad you're enjoying these. I'm rereading them too atm and am half way through the last currently available one. It's a lot slower than the others but if you remember it's really half a book it sort of makes sense. Also, you can tell there's a lot of setup going on for what'll be an awesome run to the end!