A Dance with Dragons

by Revan

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Ialie2011-07-13 20:36:35
YAY! I have it in my hands from the library!
Unknown2011-07-13 23:28:06
Well, I'm done reading. I need someone to talk to about this :<
Sylphas2011-07-13 23:34:45
QUOTE (Ialie @ Jul 13 2011, 02:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I didn't know it was out!!
I wonder if my Library has it already


Any halfway competent public library will have had multiple copies of this on shelves the day it drops. We had an entire box of Harry Potter 6 pre-launch, and it was SO TEMPTING to open the damn thing early.
Talan2011-07-13 23:55:26
QUOTE (Sojiro @ Jul 13 2011, 07:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well, I'm done reading. I need someone to talk to about this :<

Clearly we will need a spoilers thread. Possibly an irc channel. Were you expecting that thing with the guy with the hair? I wasn't.
Unknown2011-07-14 00:03:49
QUOTE (Talan @ Jul 13 2011, 04:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Clearly we will need a spoilers thread. Possibly an irc channel. Were you expecting that thing with the guy with the hair? I wasn't.


If you mean yet another surprise Targaryen, then I was a bit surprised as well, though I can't help but smile ruefully given that it's not exactly the first surprise Targaryen in the books, like Aemon, etc.
Talan2011-07-14 00:08:49
Uh, might want to delete that, even with the spoiler tag.
Ytran2011-07-14 00:13:15
QUOTE (Sojiro @ Jul 13 2011, 06:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well, I'm done reading. I need someone to talk to about this :<

I am a bit over halfway through. Soon!
Unknown2011-07-14 00:53:02
I feel like spoiler tags are actually meant to contain said spoilers. It's one thing to state it out openly, and it's another to actually highlight the spoiler.
Revan2011-07-14 04:11:25
Halfway done... trudging along. You read way too fast, Soj
Unknown2011-07-14 06:00:50
Amazon Prime sent my copy on Monday the 11th instead of the 12th, so I had a whole day before the official date.

Hurry up everyone, we've got some talking to do.
Ytran2011-07-14 06:15:41
QUOTE (Sojiro @ Jul 14 2011, 01:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Amazon Prime sent my copy on Monday the 11th instead of the 12th, so I had a whole day before the official date.

Hurry up everyone, we've got some talking to do.

I'm up through Jaime's (first? I don't feel like checking the ToC) chapter at the moment. Anything up through that point you want to discuss? biggrin.gif
Silvanus2011-07-14 06:32:41
Note, if you are reading this, I read the entire book, so spoilers are through the entire end of the book.

A few things:

I knew the epilogue was going to happen. You knew Varys had never left.

There's no way that Jon Snow is dead, just like when Tyrion blacked out. You just know that he wasn't going to kill those characters off. Tyrion has to deliver the message to Dany about Tywin and Aegon.

Cersei, oh god, thankfully all that happened.

Oberyn, what a dumbass, I'm sorry, you deserve to burn.


A few things I'm upset with about the book:

It's another build-up book, still waiting for the climax. The first two books built up to Red Wedding, these books are building up to Dany leaving Mereen.

No Sansa, nothing in the Vale. Jaime's one chapter. No Sam. I know they weren't going to be there, but not even a mention or even a pass-by.

Bran's future. It's just... so.. I really don't have words to describe what Bran is going to become.

Daenerys. Just about everything in the book that she did was just utter fail. Way to do every wrong move, just release your dragons and burn all those damn ships (except Victarion).


Things I can't wait for:

Victaaaaaaaaaaaariiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooon. What a total B.A.M.F. Easily one of my favorite characters.

More Melisandre chapters, more crazy Theon, more Euron and more Krakens in general.

Really need to find out what happens to Bran later on, and Rickon, in extension Davos.

Revan2011-07-14 10:58:38
Only on page 578, but god damn, Dany is pissing me off
Ileein2011-07-14 20:29:55
Dooooone! We totally need a spoilers thread to discuss this thing, though. Or an IRC channel, as mentioned above.
Aramel2011-07-14 22:31:07
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH why, Jon Snow, why.
Unknown2011-07-14 22:44:40
I'd much prefer a spoilers thread so we don't have to spoiler tag everything. But yesss, everyone keep reading, we can talk on friday or something.
Aramel2011-07-14 22:45:46
My first thought was "Damn the man, do I have to wait another five years to find out the end of that massive effing cliffhanger?"
Revan2011-07-15 05:11:47
Met George RR Martin in person tonight at NYC! Got to shake his hand and everything!! Sooo elated biggrin.gif
Ytran2011-07-15 05:19:56
Ten chapters leeeeffffft.
Revan2011-07-15 10:03:45
A little rant... I really really urge you not to highlight this if you haven't finished the book. WHAT THE :censor: JON SNOW DIED!?!?!?! WHAT THE BLOODY :censor: WHAT THE :censor: HOW COULD HE..... WHAT THE :censor:!?!?!?!?!?!?