slow day, and A Feast for Crows
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edenfallingTried to buy newspaper since the weekend edition has job listings. Stupid machine ate my money, would not give me newspaper, and would not return my coins either. Am peeved.
*sulks*
Twiddled away at "The Sum of Things" a little this afternoon, in an effort to get Talin and Bren to An Cimhain sometime before the year ends. Talin is still so far in denial it's not even funny. This would irritate me more if he whined about it, but so far he's mostly ignoring the issue completely and trying to get on with his current plans... which, to be fair, he and Bren are carrying out in a sensible, reasonably successful fashion.
Found a copy of The Dark Tower at the library -- apparently enough time has passed so it's not constantly on hold. Will read it this weekend. Have no particular expectations one way or another re: quality, but I expect gore, pain, violence, and death, as well as some WTF weirdness. This is Stephen King, after all.
Finished A Feast for Crows yesterday. It is... very evident that it's only half the originally intended book. This is because George R. R. Martin is usually pretty good about keeping his chapters in an organized timeline, but here there kept being vague, longish gaps, where I suspect he originally had chapters relating to the characters who did not appear in this book. It made the story feel a little attenuated, which is odd for Martin. And he still leaves characters hanging off of cliffs at the end of the book, which is particularly irritating since I'm fairly sure they won't get closure in A Dance With Dragons, since that's just going to cover the characters who did not appear in this book. *grumble*
It's still a great book, though. The political scheming is a beautiful, beautiful thing. And I still hate Cersei, but with her POV sections it's hard not to pity her as well. She has a very skewed self-image and her particular form of tunnel vision makes it impossible for her to realize just how over her head she really is.
The magic continues to be elusive, dark, and dangerous as hell, which is exactly the way magic should be in a world like this. It's perfectly in key. I like that.
*sulks*
Twiddled away at "The Sum of Things" a little this afternoon, in an effort to get Talin and Bren to An Cimhain sometime before the year ends. Talin is still so far in denial it's not even funny. This would irritate me more if he whined about it, but so far he's mostly ignoring the issue completely and trying to get on with his current plans... which, to be fair, he and Bren are carrying out in a sensible, reasonably successful fashion.
Found a copy of The Dark Tower at the library -- apparently enough time has passed so it's not constantly on hold. Will read it this weekend. Have no particular expectations one way or another re: quality, but I expect gore, pain, violence, and death, as well as some WTF weirdness. This is Stephen King, after all.
Finished A Feast for Crows yesterday. It is... very evident that it's only half the originally intended book. This is because George R. R. Martin is usually pretty good about keeping his chapters in an organized timeline, but here there kept being vague, longish gaps, where I suspect he originally had chapters relating to the characters who did not appear in this book. It made the story feel a little attenuated, which is odd for Martin. And he still leaves characters hanging off of cliffs at the end of the book, which is particularly irritating since I'm fairly sure they won't get closure in A Dance With Dragons, since that's just going to cover the characters who did not appear in this book. *grumble*
It's still a great book, though. The political scheming is a beautiful, beautiful thing. And I still hate Cersei, but with her POV sections it's hard not to pity her as well. She has a very skewed self-image and her particular form of tunnel vision makes it impossible for her to realize just how over her head she really is.
The magic continues to be elusive, dark, and dangerous as hell, which is exactly the way magic should be in a world like this. It's perfectly in key. I like that.
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Feast for crows
Date: 2005-12-11 08:37 am (UTC)Well, good luck reading, and tell us what you think of dark tower, i haven't read it either...
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Date: 2005-12-15 01:31 am (UTC)As for the characters . . . I don't think anything can sway my loathing for Cersei, but Martin seems to have a knack for doing it anyways. I used to like Tyrion, came to hate him, than came to grudgingly admit he wasn't all that bad. Jaime was a surprise, as was Sandor. I don't have any idea what Martin intends to do with them, as he seems to not mind killing off characters. They seem important one moment and totally expendable the next, like Robb. -_- The Red Scorpion's ending kind of left me disoriented, I had to reread that part.
Oh boy. Sorry for the rant. I just really want to know just what's going to happen next and at the rate my brother is reading, he won't be done with the book for another week, or maybe even two!
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Date: 2005-12-15 09:49 pm (UTC)Martin is the king of evil cliffhangers. I hate him for that, even as I'm in awe from a technical standpoint.