A Song of Ice and Fire
Jun. 15th, 2011 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bibliodragonFinished the last book now. Man, if I didn't know A Dance with Dragons is out next month I would be pissed. A Feast for Crows does feel much different from the other three, much more rambling and less urgent. Where are all the good characters? Oh fuck, Cersei has a POV now? Along with several random people I do not care about. Though granted it contains less pure evil (NED! Stupid Joff! Stupid Freys!) And has the best place for the Nelson HA HA sound effect when Cersei finally realises how screwed she is. And the fact that it is all because of her own incompetent scheming makes for delicious delicious schadenfreude. That almost for Joffrey's not nearly painful enough death. Fucking Joffrey. He's like Draco Malfoy if he actually had power. I am disappointing that in a world where the dead can come back to life, he wasn't resurrected and killed in numerous gruesome ways again and again.
It's a job done well when you've got a bunch of characters you hate with burning fury (fucking Joff, Cersei you idiot, Littlefinger you creepy bastard!) along with ones you think are awesome.Go Tyrion, Dany, Bran and to be contrary Sansa when she's not being a total moron. And Jon, you're okay when your not drowning in the emo. Direwolves and dragons rule all! And I worry for poor little Tommen and his kittens. It's not his fault his brother's a little shit, his mother's an idiot and his father is his uncle.
GRR Martin does do a good job of balancing such a sprawling cast and all their storylines, and as A Feast for Crows is technically half a book I can't really look at that analytically until Dragons is out. Though Goddamn that book had a lot of wandering in it.
Oh, and a good thing about being spoilerd for the huge events of evil, apart from saving my books from being thrown against the wall, is spotting the way he knows how to work the foreshadowing. And from his bitchings about Battlestar and Lost on his blog I can trust he won't throw in evil infuriating plot twists for the lols. Those evil infuriating plot twists will make sense!
Could do with a little less of the lovingly described sexualization of pubescent girls, pls.
Now I've read the books it's safe to watch the tv show now. I'll have to catch it on dvd. Luckily I have this to tide me over until then.
Glorious.
It's a job done well when you've got a bunch of characters you hate with burning fury (fucking Joff, Cersei you idiot, Littlefinger you creepy bastard!) along with ones you think are awesome.Go Tyrion, Dany, Bran and to be contrary Sansa when she's not being a total moron. And Jon, you're okay when your not drowning in the emo. Direwolves and dragons rule all! And I worry for poor little Tommen and his kittens. It's not his fault his brother's a little shit, his mother's an idiot and his father is his uncle.
GRR Martin does do a good job of balancing such a sprawling cast and all their storylines, and as A Feast for Crows is technically half a book I can't really look at that analytically until Dragons is out. Though Goddamn that book had a lot of wandering in it.
Oh, and a good thing about being spoilerd for the huge events of evil, apart from saving my books from being thrown against the wall, is spotting the way he knows how to work the foreshadowing. And from his bitchings about Battlestar and Lost on his blog I can trust he won't throw in evil infuriating plot twists for the lols. Those evil infuriating plot twists will make sense!
Could do with a little less of the lovingly described sexualization of pubescent girls, pls.
Now I've read the books it's safe to watch the tv show now. I'll have to catch it on dvd. Luckily I have this to tide me over until then.
Glorious.
