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proteinscollide 's review for:
A Dance with Dragons
by George R.R. Martin
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. I finally got around to watching season 3 of the show and decided to re-read A Storm of Sword and A Feast for Crows so I could re-familiarise myself with canon before I dove into A Dance with Dragons. The great thing about this parallel tv show/book approach is that it gives me an appreciation of the strengths of each medium (as well as highlighting the weaknesses). Having a visual reference also makes it easier for me to keep track of people and places, so since my original read of the first four books eons ago, I now have a greater appreciation for characters and storylines I had little patience for first time around, when all I cared about what racing to find out what happens next.
That helped with reading ADwD because truth be told, not a lot HAPPENS – like every man and their goat has pointed out, GRRM sorely needs an editor. Gah, the PACING of the last two books is so frustrating – it’s not enough in a giant tome to just pop in on a character POV once so you know they're not dead after the heart-in-mouth cliffhanger they experienced in the last book, especially when GRRM then has something else happen in a flash to keep us in suspense AGAIN (this happens TOO OFTEN). Meanwhile, there seem to be so many revisits to Dany’s Meereenese problems which are a turgid, unenjoyable mess for most part.
But even with the morass of new characters introduced with not a lot of time spent exploring who they are and what their motivations are and what they’re all up to (e.g. the various Martells), I was ultimately absorbed in ADwD, as GRRM unravels layer upon layer of plotting across time and place; absorbed, and at times mightily confused. Luckily, Westeros.org exists – and after I lost so much time I didn’t have in the first place reading first the books, I lost even more reading through like eight million forum threads about all the theories of what will be, lol. Bring on the next book!
That helped with reading ADwD because truth be told, not a lot HAPPENS – like every man and their goat has pointed out, GRRM sorely needs an editor. Gah, the PACING of the last two books is so frustrating – it’s not enough in a giant tome to just pop in on a character POV once so you know they're not dead after the heart-in-mouth cliffhanger they experienced in the last book, especially when GRRM then has something else happen in a flash to keep us in suspense AGAIN (this happens TOO OFTEN). Meanwhile, there seem to be so many revisits to Dany’s Meereenese problems which are a turgid, unenjoyable mess for most part.
But even with the morass of new characters introduced with not a lot of time spent exploring who they are and what their motivations are and what they’re all up to (e.g. the various Martells), I was ultimately absorbed in ADwD, as GRRM unravels layer upon layer of plotting across time and place; absorbed, and at times mightily confused. Luckily, Westeros.org exists – and after I lost so much time I didn’t have in the first place reading first the books, I lost even more reading through like eight million forum threads about all the theories of what will be, lol. Bring on the next book!