Anticipating "A Feast For Crows" by George R. R. Martin (Nov. 9)

the freys are the biggest pieces of shit in the books imo

thats pretty much the common theory on jon since it explains ned's treatment of him pretty decently (his oft-referred promise to lyanna was to keep her kid safe, he can't reveal the truth to anyone lest word get to the king who would order him killed for being heir to house targaryen). hopefully that'll be confirmed/denied in the next book instead of stringing us along until the end of the series to find out if we were right. there's one character left alive (howland reed) who was with ned when lyanna died and presumably shares the secret.

howland fuckin reed man. howland fuckin reed.

^^this.

walder frey's an awesome villain, and i was unbelievably stoked when i found out they cast david bradley in the role:

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01177/arts-graphics-2007_1177125a.jpg

enjoying my re-read of these in anticipation of the new one, i just started book 2 and there's so much i had forgotten, basically everything except the few major plot twists. it's all coming back to me now though.

thats pretty much the common theory on jon since it explains ned's treatment of him pretty decently (his oft-referred promise to lyanna was to keep her kid safe, he can't reveal the truth to anyone lest word get to the king who would order him killed for being heir to house targaryen). hopefully that'll be confirmed/denied in the next book instead of stringing us along until the end of the series to find out if we were right. there's one character left alive (howland reed) who was with ned when lyanna died and presumably shares the secret.

― ciderpress, Friday, May 20, 2011 7:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah. i think thats why we havent met howland reed yet - dude just knows too much. didnt ned say that he couldnt have beat arthur dayne w/o reed's help? im so curious about how that went down

i didnt pick up on jon's real parentage at all on my readthrough, so when i read about it online i was like :OOOOOOOO

I'm gonna be bummed if Frey just kicks the bucket. Martin has a habit of denying you vengeance -- both joffrey and the mountain die in ways that aren't particularly satisfying. though tywin gets his for sure.

I wouldn't be surprised if jons royal parentage comes out in the context of melisandre needing royal blood to wake the dragon

god, the mountain. the duel between him & the red viper was maybe the most visceral moment in the series for me - the way martin has you doubting that he can stand up to gregor, then slowly lets you think maybe he can win, then pulls the rug out from under you is great imo. also apparently gregor clegane's an undead zombie golem now. i hope sandor gets to kill him!

i'll be real impressed if martin can pull off all the undead stuff w/o it seeming stupid

love these books so fukken much

the daynes are definitely Persons Of Interest. They have purple eyes!

darkstar's p comical - he shows up, acts like a hot topic teen and then all he can do is cut a little girl's ear off and run away

the dornish princess and her buds seem like such lame-os

honestly i think i h8d joffrey more than the freys i wanted that little fucker to get set on fire and then disembowled or s.thing

one of things i really liked abt the fourth book was how it suggested all these counterfactuals - what if mad aerys had allowed cersei to marry rhaegar

i was really hoping the hound would just get fed up w/joffrey and suddenly behead him in one clean motion

one of things i really liked abt the fourth book was how it suggested all these counterfactuals - what if mad aerys had allowed cersei to marry rhaegar

― ᵉ( ᷅ʷɣʷ)ᵊ (Lamp), Friday, May 20, 2011 8:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

one of my favorite running jokes is how martin keeps letting you think x character might get sent to the wall (ned, theon, tyrion) and lets you get all excited about that for a minute before bein like 'lol fuk u' and goes in a different direction

tbh i kept hoping ned would show up at the wall well into clash of kings ;_;

he loves to set plots almost in motion and then pull the rug out from under you!!

WHAT IF.... arya teamed up with sam the slayer???

WHAT IF.... brienne swore allegiance to Roberts bastard???

lol @ sam the slayer

arya is gonna be one tuff fuckin broad imo.

u think shes for real blind or what

Anyone else find the Arya stuff in the last book a little lame? Like she wandered into your standard fantasy training to be the greatest warrior shit

i have my doubts re: her being perma-blind

re: standard fantasy training - she seems to be turning into a creepy psycho more than a greatest warrior so idk

Creepy psychos are awesome, tho

yeah i thought she was gonna be an assassin or some shit, not like some do-gooder

kinda assuming she will leave the facelessbros at some point and team up with jon, danaerys or tyrion

but i think a lot of wrong shit tbh

i'm convinced bran is turning into a creepy psycho, too.

Rickon is going to end up uniting the 7 Kingdoms and the Wildlings

arya + daenerys wd be amazing, too.

remy, no!! Bran is going to be awesome!

Faceless folk seem like hacks to me, would enjoy it if she just killed that kindly old man.

yeah no way bran can be a psycho with jojen reed supervising him

Rickon is going to end up uniting the 7 Kingdoms and the Wildlings

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Monday, May 23, 2011 4:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont get why martin wont just kill him off already

HODOR ftw

im still #teampodrick

should we start a dance with dragons thread

probably but I'm lazy

also can i just say how much it annoys me that martin titled three of the boys X of Y and is now changing up his prepositions

the last two should be called The Winds Between Winter and A Dream Before Spring

a dream up spring

hahaha

trying to reread these in anticipation gawd is bran the worst

rickon is worse

HODOR

more like BLODOR

THE HODIARTRIST

lol whats your beef w/rickon max - he doesnt have any POVs and he literally ceases to exist after the 2nd book

hes nuts, way too hyper, cant control his wolf, its like, chill out lil bro

speaking of shit that annoys me in these books

why are the starks "words" (dont even get me started on calling it "words" instead of "motto") in the present progressive?? "winter is coming" sucks -- what about "winter will come" or "winter always comes" or something? even "winter comes" would be better.