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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #105 on: November 09, 2011, 12:56:37 PM »
The only info I've found online for a paperback release date of ADWD is October 2012.

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Unfortunately, the more popular a book is, the longer the publishers try to milk hardcover sales before releasing paperbacks.  They might even put out a trade paperback before the massmarket paperback edition.


I got the Kindle edition of ADwD, but if I were going hardcopy, I'd buy a used hardback rather than wait for the paperback.
Yeah, but all my other copies are the normal paperbacks, and I'm an asshole completist that way and don't want anything in my collection that doesn't fit.  I may see if I can check it out from the library to tide myself over.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #106 on: November 09, 2011, 12:59:03 PM »
I have a better idea.  Buy the entire series in hardcover.

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #107 on: November 09, 2011, 01:03:00 PM »
I have a better idea.  Buy the entire series in hardcover.
I don't buy things twice.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #108 on: November 09, 2011, 01:03:48 PM »
Do it.

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #109 on: November 10, 2011, 12:44:01 PM »
Yeah, eBooks can save you some money.  ZirconBlue, is lending enabled on the kindle version of A Dance with Dragons?  You can lend your copy out to people for 14 days if it is.


I'm new to the world of Kindle, so I don't even really know how lending works, yet.  Would 14 days even be enough?  ;)

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #110 on: November 17, 2011, 09:01:30 AM »
Finished A Clash of Kings 2 days ago, WHAT A BOOK!!

Currently waiting for A Storm of Swords, with pretty big expectations  ;D
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #111 on: November 25, 2011, 05:01:45 AM »
Hef is right on all things. Except for when I disagree with him. In which case he's probably still right.

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #112 on: November 25, 2011, 07:15:30 AM »
Finished A Clash of Kings 2 days ago, WHAT A BOOK!!

Currently waiting for A Storm of Swords, with pretty big expectations  ;D

You are not prepared.

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #113 on: November 25, 2011, 07:49:00 AM »
Finished A Clash of Kings 2 days ago, WHAT A BOOK!!

Currently waiting for A Storm of Swords, with pretty big expectations  ;D

You are not prepared.

Preparing yourself for it is impossible.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #114 on: November 25, 2011, 03:06:37 PM »
Finished A Clash of Kings 2 days ago, WHAT A BOOK!!

Currently waiting for A Storm of Swords, with pretty big expectations  ;D

You are not prepared.

Preparing yourself for it is impossible.

Exactly  :lol

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #115 on: November 25, 2011, 03:50:53 PM »
Finished A Clash of Kings 2 days ago, WHAT A BOOK!!

Currently waiting for A Storm of Swords, with pretty big expectations  ;D

You are not prepared.

Preparing yourself for it is impossible.

Exactly  :lol

Well, I'm still waiting for it to arrive :lol
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #116 on: December 18, 2011, 10:45:08 AM »
I just finished AFFC, and will begin reading Dance shortly. Let's just say that I quite enjoyed Feast, although it was nowhere as good as SoS, which is the best "novel" I've read in a long time. Random comments concerning the events:

--Spoiler--

I am glad I will not be reading Cersei's thoughts for some time, I got really tired of that crazy bitch. And, I admit, I was close to tears at Master Aemon's death. He was one of my most beloved characters, and I was looking forward to seeing him confronting his great-gran-niece. She appears to be the last Targaryen alive, if we ignore the conspiracy theories (R+L=J). Not good.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #117 on: December 29, 2011, 08:39:03 AM »
GRRM has posted a preview chapter for The Winds of Winter on his website:

https://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #118 on: January 05, 2012, 01:18:27 AM »
Just finished A Storm of Swords, what an awesome book that was!
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #119 on: June 11, 2012, 12:49:58 PM »
Finished Dance with Dragons the other day. I'm still not sure how I feel about this series. Its seems long and complicated for the sake of being long and complicated. There are a few minor characters that I simply don't care all that much to read about. I trust that Martin will pull it all together and it will all make sense, but right now I feel like there are a few story arcs that are kind of unnecessary or are at least way too long.

I have two main questions/concerns:
1. Will Martin finish the series at all since he's on the older side and isn't sir speedy when it comes to writing these things?
2. Will the HBO series catch up to the most recent book and what will they do then?

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #120 on: June 11, 2012, 01:13:09 PM »
I'm two thirds of the way through AFFC and... well this book will be interesting how they're gonna translated into the show. I know Benioff and Weiss have said that they're not doing a straight book-to-season translation and it's more of the saga and that's why the Bloody Mummers and the Reeds haven't appeared but this book is gonna be... interesting.

And I've been thinking those two same things lordxizor. My hope is that GRRM focuses on finishing up the last two books and then moving on to writing anything else he wants. Doesn't he already have some hundreds of manuscript pages that he cut out of ADWD to use for TWoW?
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« Reply #121 on: June 11, 2012, 07:05:26 PM »
Doesn't he already have some hundreds of manuscript pages that he cut out of ADWD to use for TWoW?

Yes, he does. Unfortunately, he's also prone to rewrites. His publishers were worried about the length of aDwD, so Martin had to stop just short of the climax. He's already confirmed that tWoW will open with the two battles that aDwD spent hundreds of pages building up to. There won't be any more new POVs as he'll have his hands full just tying up all of the existing sub-plots in only two books, and both of those books will almost certainly have to be as long as aDwD.  think he's also mentioned that he wants to explore some locales in the Land of Always Winter in the next book; he's described the unmapped region north of the wall as being the size of Greenland.  :omg:

In fact, he's already done readings for several tWoW chapters. If you go on the Westeros.org forums, there are discussions about them.

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #122 on: June 12, 2012, 07:41:51 AM »
How many more books are there supposed to be?

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #123 on: June 12, 2012, 07:47:10 AM »
Two more.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #124 on: June 14, 2012, 01:42:49 PM »
Please help.

The wait is getting unbearable and we probably still have 3 more years at the very least. 

What do I do?

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #125 on: June 14, 2012, 02:36:13 PM »
Please help.

The wait is getting unbearable and we probably still have 3 more years at the very least. 

What do I do?

Do extensive re-reads, spend some time on westeros.org trying to uncover unrealistic scheme or bashing the show producers. Otherwise, set your heart at peace, like I did, read the books again, like I'm going to, and pray Martin speeds up a bit this time :/
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #126 on: June 14, 2012, 02:45:41 PM »
Please help.

The wait is getting unbearable and we probably still have 3 more years at the very least. 

What do I do?


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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #127 on: June 14, 2012, 03:36:39 PM »
Bash the tv show in every possible way.
Also, read other stuff. I'm still busy on ADWD, but I'm not that fast a reader, about halfway now, after about 1.5 months.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #128 on: June 14, 2012, 04:02:29 PM »
Bash the tv show in every possible way.
Also, read other stuff. I'm still busy on ADWD, but I'm not that fast a reader, about halfway now, after about 1.5 months.

Didn't you like the second season?
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #129 on: June 14, 2012, 04:05:36 PM »
I stopped watching after the first. I did like it, but not very much. Things don't get explained properly and that starts at character's name, families and all that. You're missing out on pretty much the entire history, sideplots and theories. The books are so much better.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #130 on: June 14, 2012, 04:33:16 PM »
I stopped watching after the first. I did like it, but not very much. Things don't get explained properly and that starts at character's name, families and all that. You're missing out on pretty much the entire history, sideplots and theories. The books are so much better.

The books are much better because they are books to be read actively, not a TV show to be rather passively watched. Feeding oneself is different than being fed.

I love the books to death, I see where you and all those who are critic towards the show come from, and yet enjoyed the first two seasons of GOT very much. I consider myself fortunate for this  ;)
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #131 on: June 15, 2012, 12:47:38 AM »
I love the books to death, I see where you and all those who are critic towards the show come from, and yet enjoyed the first two seasons of GOT very much. I consider myself fortunate for this  ;)

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« Reply #132 on: June 15, 2012, 12:57:18 AM »
Just got spoiled in a youtube comment, fml.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #133 on: June 16, 2012, 05:38:46 AM »
I stopped watching after the first. I did like it, but not very much. Things don't get explained properly and that starts at character's name, families and all that. You're missing out on pretty much the entire history, sideplots and theories. The books are so much better.
That's the difference between books and film/TV.  The shows explain enough to be TV shows.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #134 on: July 21, 2012, 08:29:10 PM »
I'm like halfway through ADwD and had to bump this to say... what kinda of fucking mindset those one have to be in to come up with someone like Ramsay?!?!?!

I mean, if the RW wasn't sadistic enough!
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #135 on: July 21, 2012, 09:22:24 PM »
I stopped watching after the first. I did like it, but not very much. Things don't get explained properly and that starts at character's name, families and all that. You're missing out on pretty much the entire history, sideplots and theories. The books are so much better.

Those are pretty unrealistic expectations for a TV show. The levels of detail you can put into the two different mediums are very different.
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« Reply #136 on: July 30, 2012, 11:16:40 PM »
I'm like halfway through ADwD and had to bump this to say... what kinda of fucking mindset those one have to be in to come up with someone like Ramsay?!?!?!

I mean, if the RW wasn't sadistic enough!
Maybe you should avoid darker fantasies.  I never thought of Ramsay as anything too extreme. :lol. Martin is fairly tame for disturbing, where he excels in the political underpinnings and intrigue.

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« Reply #137 on: July 30, 2012, 11:59:47 PM »
Well, it was more because how utterly psychologically destroyed Reek becomes. Though, Ramsay is a despicable character anyway.
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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #138 on: July 31, 2012, 10:12:00 AM »
Those chapters are the best part of Dance in my opinion, and Dany's parts are awful  :lol

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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #139 on: July 31, 2012, 10:41:43 AM »
Agreed, Reek's arc has been the best part! Jon's and Dany's can be boiled down to the same thing, constant complaining! :lol
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