Did you read A Feast For Crows? It sounds like that's what you are comparing Dance With Dragons to, as it has all the viewpoints that Feast didn't.
Is this a series you have to read in the proper order?
Did you read A Feast For Crows? It sounds like that's what you are comparing Dance With Dragons to, as it has all the viewpoints that Feast didn't.
Yes, A Song of Ice and Fire is a series that needs to be read in this order:Is this a series you have to read in the proper order?
Yes, A Song of Ice and Fire is a series that needs to be read in this order:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast For Crows
A Dance With Dragons.
There are to be two more books, The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.
I don't see how you can finish SoS and not think it to be the best thing ever. GRRM basically just takes everything you love and ****s all over it. It's fantastic.
Any reason why they all begin with "A" except The Winds of Winter. Seems like a lot of work naming books to throw it away with one title.
Cormac's writing style is odd. He writes with a huge vocabulary and very little punctuation. I think this leads to a very fluid read, but it's definitely off-putting at first.
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This is excatly it. Off putting is the word also. It took me a chapter or two to really get into the swing of it but I didnt see his style as a negative.
I've read a handful of McCarthy. I could take him or leave em, but The Road is a great book. SWMBO cried at the end of the movie lol
I don't want to ruin anything because it's so powerful, but the basic storyline is a father and very young son traveling together in a brutally harsh, post-apocalyptic world. My mom recommended it to me, and we both still talk about it when we get together because we both feel so differently about the ending.
My high school English teacher aunt and I got into it a few times about the ending as well.
I take the darker version.
Ripping off the other threads about movies and such. We know it all started here.
My current favorite author doesn't have a movie to his name yet, to my knowledge.
Clive Cussler.
I have been reading about 2 books a week of his lately. I wish there was a movie to watch to compare.
The last 2 I read were
Corsair
Plague Ship.
Both are a little out there, but you can't put them down! Anyone else enjoy the old book by the fireplace?
I think it's inevitable. Our argument always revolved around our opinion of the father at the end of the book, and whether we saw him as a good man or a bad one.
Ah, gotcha. Kind of splitting hairs there
SPOILER ALERT (well, kind of):
We always argued about what happened...
I have been reading about 2 books a week of his lately. I wish there was a movie to watch to compare.
I see a lot of great books and series recommended in here. I'll second (or third or fourth) the following:
Dark Tower series (amazingly epic, and my favorite part doesn't even take place during the actual continuity of the story, Wizard and Glass is amazing!)
A Song of Ice and Fire (haven't grabbed Dance of Dragons yet, but I'll get around to it)
Wheel of Time (This one is soooo long and it really loses steam midway through, I still haven't gotten into the Sanderson books yet)
Pillars of the Earth and World Without End (I really enjoy Follett's regular spy stories, but these books are just amazing in scope, haven't read the newest one yet)
To add in my suggestions, keeping with the fantasy stuff:
Lord of the Rings (I re-read this every other year or so, it's just a masterpiece)
Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind (really good series, loses steam at the mid point and then picks back up)
And one that I just recently finished:
The Warded Man & its sequel Desert Spear by Peter V Brett. This is a series in process right now and its just a really refreshing take on the fantasy genre, very well written books.
I forgot about the Sword of Truth, I loved that series. When I read sci-fi/fantasy forums everyone talks **** about it, but I thought it was great. I am confused though, becauseTerry Goodkind said the series was done after Confessor came out and that he was moving on. Now I see The Omen Machine in the store, which takes place after Confessor. I guess his publisher wanted more SoT..
I loved Pillars of the Earth, and I also loved World Without End. They're not the same, but they're both great. I also really enjoyed Fall of Giants, but it's a totally different book, nothing like Pillars of the Earth. But I didn't know much about WWI, and it was pretty enlightening.
Hunger Games was a good read - it was a good page-turner, but ultimately I didn't like the ending. Glad I read it though.
Other than Palmer's How to Brew, and 100 Classic styles, and Brewing up a Business, I'm reading 1Q84, which so far, is pretty interesting, but I'm only 1/3 through, so it could go either way.
Hop_machine said:Tearing through some orsen scott card Enders game series, finishing the fourth book. I really enjoyed this series. My favorite before this was the dark tower series. I think king really does become all the characters...
Okay, on your behest I googled it and found out there is a TV show! It is very good, almost like Scrubs but with a kitchen instead of a hospital. I managed to waste most of the afternoon watching all the season 1 episodes.
Tearing through some orsen scott card Enders game series, finishing the fourth book. I really enjoyed this series. My favorite before this was the dark tower series. I think king really does become all the characters...
The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Great fantasy series, kind of similar to A Song of Ice and Fire.
I just finished reading Best Served Cold by Abercrombie and it was a great book. I had never heard of him until I found this big hardback book for $1 at the Dollar Tree. Very gritty book. Definitely glad I bought it.
i read them all in high school - and lots of frank herberts other stuff too. i loved dune when i read it, and got sucked in - i couldn't get enough of that universe. i reread all of them a few times since then. i like them- the plot gets long and twisted with forays into some of the worlds and characters that we just caught a glance of in the earlier books, but good stuff if you are into that. I'm always looking for the judiac links...Has anyone read far into the Dune series? I read the original Dune and loved it, but I never went any further. There's so many, I wasn't read to commit to another huge series. Maybe I'll look into it again if the rest are worth the time.
Kaotica said:Unbroken, astounding read of Louie Zamperini's ordeal of drifting at sea and being at POW in WWII Japan.
primitivist essays always pique my interest. anthropology is to me what architecture is to george costanza- the fictitious careers we use to impress women...I've been reading Debt: The First 5,000 Years - Anthropological look at debt, money, and their connection with violence and slavery. As well as How Nonviolence Protects The State - anarchist activist book about diversity of tactics and a more balanced history of nonviolence movements. I also really digged Origins by John Zerzan - a collection of primitivist essays critiquing civilization. I will be surprised if anyone else here would be interested in these, but thought I'd throw them out there anyway.
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