Really like song of ice and fire

[chongjasmine]

I had read a game of thrones, just finished a clash of kings and cannot wait to read the third book of the series.

I find myself really enjoying this series.

 

[biodroid]

Sweetness

 

[Delran Stark]

They are brilliant and you never know what happens next. That is the best part of it! There are too many facts to consider.

 

[The Imp]

ASOIAF is perhaps the best work of fiction I have ever read. Martin is one of those rare writers that can craft a great story AND knows how to tell it. You have a lot to look forward to in the third and fourth books, and who knows, maybe you'll finish AFFC in time to start ADWD

 

[Ursa major]

But aren't we already in the middle of A Dance With Dates? (Or is it Any Delay Will Do?)




Oh, and glad to hear you're enjoying the series, s.gal83. You should really enjoy A Storm of Swords.

 

[chongjasmine]

I had read 100 over pages of a storm of swords. It does not disappoint.

 

[Boaz]

I had read a game of thrones, just finished a clash of kings and cannot wait to read the third book of the series.

I find myself really enjoying this series.

They are brilliant and you never know what happens next. That is the best part of it! There are too many facts to consider.

I had read 100 over pages of a storm of swords. It does not disappoint.

s.gal83, Once again welcome to the Chronicles Network. I'm glad you're here, but I'd really like to encourage you to be extremely careful on what you read here or mayhaps you could stop visiting the Martin forums until you've finished ASOS. There are a couple of major plot developments that you will really enjoy by letting Martin tell you instead of us spoiling them for you. We don't always preface our mentioning these big story changes with SPOILER warnings.

Ursa, are you suggesting that Andrew Lloyd Webber compose music for it? Martin sings while his twelve publishers sell him into slavery...

 

[Ursa major]

I would never propose Webber as the composer of anything.

But your advice about reading threads in the GRRM sub-forum is spot on, Boaz. I read all the ASoIaF books in the last year or so and kept well clear of here until I'd finished AFFC.

I'm so glad I did: GRRM is particularly good at coming up with big surprises that only seem obvious (or even possible) in retrospect; it's a shame when that feeling is removed because you've read what's going to happen. One of GRRM's best skills is to keep us all guessing; why remove that from his armoury if you don't have to?

 

[chongjasmine]

I had just finished A storm of swords. I am at first very sad that Catelyn and her son died at the hands of Frey. However, I realised now after finishing the ending of A storm of swords that Catelyn is alive.

 

[rai]

Spoiler alert !!!

i had just finished a storm of swords. I am at first very sad that catelyn and her son died at the hands of frey. However, i realised now after finishing the ending of a storm of swords that catelyn is alive.

 

[rai]

I'm glad some of you think it's the best literature ever, I would suggest you read something truly great like 'Moby Dick' before you decide this is the best work ever written.

IMO the series is a great fantasy Soap Opera but not quite the best literature ever written probably there are one or two books above this series.

 

[The Imp]

I'm glad some of you think it's the best literature ever, I would suggest you read something truly great like 'Moby Dick' before you decide this is the best work ever written.

IMO the series is a great fantasy Soap Opera but not quite the best literature ever written probably there are one or two books above this series.

Has it occurred to you that some of the people who have praised this series have been to college and in some cases grad school, and are very well versed in the classics? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but please don't make assumptions about people when you don't know anything about them.

 

[chongjasmine]

I'm glad some of you think it's the best literature ever, I would suggest you read something truly great like 'Moby Dick' before you decide this is the best work ever written.

IMO the series is a great fantasy Soap Opera but not quite the best literature ever written probably there are one or two books above this series.

I had read Moby Dick, but I still prefer song of ice and fire.

 

[biodroid]

I found that the characters talk too much and nothing really gets done.

 

[Clansman]

I'm glad some of you think it's the best literature ever, I would suggest you read something truly great like 'Moby Dick' before you decide this is the best work ever written.

IMO the series is a great fantasy Soap Opera but not quite the best literature ever written probably there are one or two books above this series.

I didn't respond to this at the time, but I can no longer pass it by.

Soap Opera is characterized by maudlin melodrama, and was, traditionally, directed at those seeking romance escapism from the mundane existence of suburban life, usually women. They are also characterized by poor, pulp writing, unsupportable and predictable plots, cardboard characters, and are generally trashy. Masterpiece Theatre they ain't.

Rai, I don't know if you are still around or not, but ASoIaF is about as far from a soap opera as I can imagine. The characters are strong, distinct and real, the plot is deep, complex, intense and unpredictable, and REAL. the writing (except for AFFC, which lagged, admittedly) is truly literary. And, once a person hits the second Bran chapter in AGoT, they know that this is no ordinary series. Predictable it ain't.

I have read most of Shakespeare's works, a lot of the classics of ancient English literature, several Dickens novels, George Eliot (ugh! terrible name for a woman, and a real chore to read), Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, W.O. Mitchell, amidst a pile of other stuff, and of course Tolkien, Lewis, Peake, Gemmell, and a pile of fantasy and SF.

ASoIaF is a classic of modern fantasy. It may become a classic of English literature, as Tolkien's works have. Only time will tell, and the author has yet to finish it, and the next three books will be the determinative factor as to whether or not it will join LOTR and A Tale of Two Cities, Austen's works, etc.

It is most definitely NOT a soap opera.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

It is most definitely NOT a soap opera.

I agree. There's hardly any singing in it and certainly not anything approaching operatic in scope! (no matter how much you love the Bear and the Maiden Fair)

 

[Clansman]

Oh, crap. Just what we needed, another Ursa. My throat already hurts from the groaning he causes in the Lounge.

Incidentally, here is a little factoid. The name "soap opera" comes from the radio serials of the 1930's, whose advertisers were soap companies, hence, the "soap" part. As the target audience was women (the buyers of the soap), the serials were heavy on romance and tragedy, and requited love, thus, the "opera" part.

ASoIaF could be an opera. It certainly has enough Wagnerian tragedy in it (and incest too).

 

[Eulalia]

Please don't suggest an opera to GRRM. We need him to stay focused.

 

[The Imp]

Some suggested titles

Days of Our Knights

All My Bastards

One King to Live

The Old and the Beautiful

 

[Ursa major]

May I suggest:

Branhäuser
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(And so Tolkien fans don't feel left out, there really is an opera called Maria di Rohan; it's by Donizetti. Oh, and Rossini wrote Ermione, though not specifically for Rowling fans.)