A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

After five years, it's finally out. And best of all, it's only half the book they promised.

Taking a page from the Cranefly, the cover is a brilliant red and it's a really thick book.

I don't know if I'm ready to read it, though. It's been so long since the other books, the only thing I remember is that I want to keep reading. I fear I will have to go back to the beginning and start over. Then I only have to wait another five years for the conclusion. Kewl.

[Drunk Monk]

you guys can't post about books you have and haven't read. what good is that?

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Cranefly posted a review about a movie poster. I figure I can post about a book El dingo and I talked about on the last forum. Plus, it's a very pretty cover. And it has been five frickin years since the last one. Don't worry, the review is coming.

[El Dingo]

I'm holding off on this exactly for that reason

I want to wait till the release date on the next one is a hair closer.

Also - I thought he had written both parts already, but it was too big for one book so he split into 2 books, each one focusing on a different set of characters.

The 2nd part was supposed to be released 6 months after the first, but I could have misunderstood.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I heard the second book was supposed to come out soon . . . . Much like Feast for Crows was supposed to come out soon. We shall see.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Abruptly, it was over. I was suckered by the fact there's about fifty pages of glossary and coming attractions. I was hoping for a hair bit more, but no, I'm stuck on the cliff for another five years until the next one comes.

Granted, it's a wonderful story. It's very complex. I can't remember anything that's going on from the previous books, so I spent the time reading and dredging my memories. The few characters I do remember weren't covered in this book.

He's going to do seven books in the series. I suggest you wait until he's done. If that point ever comes.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Will he now take a break from Ice and Fire in favor of his longtime love? "Oh, no," he said. "I'm working on the fifth book now, and after that there will be at least two more equally large books. That's going to take me another five or six years to finish."

Yikes. I guess I just have to wait another five years for him to fucking finish. Fucking Writers. Fuck Fuck Fuck.

[El Dingo]

I may just wait till he finishes and read the whole lot at once.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I was over at the Martin website and I came across this in his blog. The man uses Wordstar!

Lest anyone have a heart attack, let me hasten to add that this has NOT affected A DANCE WITH DRAGONS or any of my other work-in-progress. I do my writing on a completely different computer than the one I use for email and the internet, in part to guard against viruses, worms, and nightmares like this. My work machine does not even use Windows (which I loathe). I write with WordStar 4.0 on a pure DOS-based machine. Mock if you must... but WordStar and DOS are both stable as rocks, and never give me the sort of headaches I get from Windows. (I won't even talk about Microsoft Word, about which I have nothing printable to say).

[The Queen]

Unbelievable. And I thought *my* people were backward!!!

[cranefly]

We have a good writer friend who just bought a typewriter to write on.
I'm trusting I don't have to explain what that is.
Apparently he has a bad habit of web surfing and needs to break it.

Since I'm certain you're not familiar with that term, web surfing is when
you just wander around and around on the web, either by doing google
searches or by following links, and eventually you lose your balance
and fall and get sucked under and slam into rocks and coral on the
bottom and get pummeled by savage breasts.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Blame El Dingo.

For some reason they keep serving me up the golf game and shakespeare sites.

[El Dingo]

Finally broke down and read this one.

I was trying to wait so that the break between this one and the next wasn't so long, but it's glistening red cover and promise of treachery and carnage proved irresistable.

As I feared I had forgotten almost everything except the Lannisters and the Starks. Fortunately the book focused on just a few characters so I was able to piecemeal the forgotten bits from the narrative.

George's writing is still fantastic. The book is very long but never boring. Every chapter is filled with conspiracy, tragedy and usually a massacre or two.

I did have a problem with the story.

All the 'good guys' are now dead or hiding. There's really no one to root for (except for maybe Brienne) but in this 'Game of Thrones' there's no one I really want to see win. And the 'Hanging Lady' at the end was a real downer.

OK George - publish the next one so we can see what's happening on the other side of the ocean. Dragons....mmmmmmmm!

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Because I'm a masochist, I check George Martin's page. His update about the new book was last updated in January 2007 when he said his next announcement will be when the book is finished. He does give notes about the other books he's writing instead of writing Dances with Dragons.
Anyway, on Amazon.com, they've listed the book's release date as October 2007.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I bitch and moan quietly to myself about Martin's lack of production. Fortunately, I have other books to wait for as well.

Someone queried Neil Gaman about Martin's lack of production. Gaiman replied, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch" I wish he were. Then I'd have those damn books.

A singer put the sentiment to music: Martin is not your Bitch