Took me a while to get around to reading this. Probably never would have made it if I weren't listening on audiobook because ye gods, pacing, Martin, pacing!
Dear George Martin: I know you're used to stand alone books, but we have been following the series, and you don't have to rehash everything that's happened for us kthnx.
Well, yeah. To be fair to Martin though, it has been over seven years since the last book came out, and some of his readers' memories may have gone a bit fuzzy.
Dear Quentyn: /Nelson Munz/ HAW-HAW! After dealing with one self-pitying chapter after another, your death by dragon was the best fucking thing in this book.
Fair enough, but it also made his subplot massively pointless. This goes quintuple for Jon Snow's (probable) death at the end.
Dear Tyrion: Dear, we know you killed your father. We read the last book, remember? While I get you're upset it would be less annoying if SOMETHING WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. NOTHING DOES.
Although I found his ever-irreverent outlook did help. Somewhat.
Dear Victarion: I hope Dragon eats you so we can be rid of your SELF PITYING POINTLESSNESS IN WHICH NOTHING HAPPENS.
Nameless gods, yes. In a book which could practically be re-titled Irrelevant Asides: The (Very, Very Long) Novel, his subplot struck me as particularly irrelevant and uninteresting.
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Date: 2012-04-10 06:06 pm (UTC)Well, yeah. To be fair to Martin though, it has been over seven years since the last book came out, and some of his readers' memories may have gone a bit fuzzy.
Fair enough, but it also made his subplot massively pointless. This goes quintuple for Jon Snow's (probable) death at the end.
Although I found his ever-irreverent outlook did help. Somewhat.
Nameless gods, yes. In a book which could practically be re-titled Irrelevant Asides: The (Very, Very Long) Novel, his subplot struck me as particularly irrelevant and uninteresting.