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u/Khuzud · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

"Well, unfortunately, any kind of exposure indirectly helps ratings. Of course, nothing will boost ratings more than the show itself being good, but the more people that can be attracted to it, the better chance there is of their ratings staying high or (I'm sure) even increasing."

Well, I don't know anyone who would start watching/reading because they saw a direwolf iphone skin, but since your so doggedly determined that keychains are going to sell the show more effectively than something legitimate like word of mouth, I take it that's how you became a fan. You can have that one, I suppose.


"It sounds like you're still stubbornly defending the idea that he "sold out" without offering enough support for that claim. If you can somehow demonstrate that the literary quality sharply decreased after he shared his writing with other types of ventures, I'll believe it."

I understand you're a newbie to the ASoIaF world, and therefore a little late to the party. I've been there for the 8 years of blog posts about the Giants and Wildcards and of him hocking his latest piece of craphenalia in real time. You haven't. I don't get into this "I've been reading since before it was cool, so I'm better than you" rhetoric alot of the old guard seem to - that's silly - but it does give me better insight to the things we are discussing here than someone who just discovered these were books last summer.

I'm not going to sit here and go through with you every piece of merchandise until you are satisfied. In fact, I won't go through any of them with you other than the things I've already mentioned. It is apparent that you can only find your way to HBO.com

Uh, AGoT ACoK ASoS AFfC ADwD

I don't really have the inclination to get too involved in this so I just gave you the Amazon links. There's a star rating near the book titles. These ratings summarize the quality of the product listed. As you can see the first three books of the series have exceptional ratings: 4.5+ stars, but then starting with Feast and continuing through Dance (current) you see these drop down to 3 stars. There's your demonstration. I'm not going to continue to take you by the hand and point to things as obvious as this.


"There's the Cyanide's track record, which is mostly just a bunch of cycling-related games, and it's pretty clear from the post you linked that GRRM declined Cyanide at the time because he basically felt they were too amateur a studio to be able to do a good job on the game. Years later, (years!) this little company is still determined to do it, especially now that they've opened up another studio and hired enough people to pull the game off"

That's pretty bold to pass that off as fact based on the information in the blog post. We'll go ahead and chalk that up in the "good faith" and "benefit of the doubt" column.

"I think AFfC and ADWD should be considered special cases given what it took to write them."

I don't know exactly what you're intending with this, but no. It shouldn't.

u/editorfromhell · 0 pointsr/gameofthrones

This is the most awesome, well-thought out reply. The scope of my discussion has been mainly targeted for the screen translation.

I don't think these types of edits would make a better book. My list is too much of a "butchers cut", when a fine surgical tool could be used. But have no doubt, this still doesn't change the fact that this book is rated the lowest on this subreddit, as well as sites like amazon. I'll just leave this here:

http://www.amazon.com/Feast-Crows-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553582038/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320074549&sr=8-1

OK, I did something a little different in this review. Soon there will be literally hundreds of reviews for this book, all giving similar reasons why people like or dislike A Feast For Crows. Instead of adding, and probably losing, my voice in amongst the clamour, I've done a bit of mathematics for you. I actually went through the book and noted which characters had chapters of their own and how many pages each of those chapters had, then I figured the numbers out as percentages (yes, I know, I need to get out more). So now, for your literary edification and illumination, I present to you a list of what actually happens in the book, according to my calculations (all rounded off).

CERCEI: 22.5%. That's right, folks, the Lannister Queen has more than one page in five, and nearly one page in four, devoted entirely to her point of view. If you've always wanted to know what goes on in her scheming little mind, then boy, do we have a show for you! Considering that there are thirteen people altogether who get chapter viewpoints of their own, Cercei's 22.5% share means that, on average, everyone else only gets 6.5% each. You could say that Cercei has the lion's share (terrible pun, I know).

BRIENNE: 17.5%. Next on our little list comes the Maid of Tarth. Most of the time we spend with her is on character development, rather than juicy action. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all, but you've been warned. If you were expecting her to become Lara Croft: Tomb Raider reborn, think again. Also, of some small statistical note, more than 60% of the pages in this book are devoted to the female character's points of view. Just so you know.

JAIME: 15.5%. The ever-more-interesting brother, and erstwhile lover, of Cercei continues in his evolution from out-and-out bad guy to, well, kind of a good guy. We're going to have to read the next book to see which way he jumps for sure, but so far he's certainly more inclined towards honesty and honour than he seemed to be in the first couple of books.

SAMWELL: 9%. The first character with less than ten percent of the ink investment is Sam. One of the more down-to-earth minor characters from the previous book, he gets fleshed out a little more here (excuse the pun).

SANSA: 8%. One of the few remaining Starks, and one of only two who get chapters of their own in this book, Sansa is also evolving as a character. In this book she is very slowly starting to show signs of an independence that she heretofore lacked. Of course, with only three chapters of her own, she doesn't show much. Not that she was ever on the front lines of either political intrigue or physical combat.

ARYA: 6% The only other person from House Stark with chapters from her own viewpoint. Arya has always been an interesting character to me. Her moral ambiguity, like Jaime's, is stretched further in this book. I'm a little nervous as to how she'll shape up in the end. At this point, it's a little difficult for me to tell, though I have optimistic expectations.

WHO? WHAT? HUH?: 21.5%. Seven people, some of whom are hardly mentioned, or not mentioned at all, in previous books, have their own chapter or two each in this book. So more than one page in five is from the viewpoint of someone you probably can't remember reading about before. And half the time the same viewpoint doesn't come up again in this book at all.

TYRION, JON, DAENERYS, STANNIS, DAVOS, ETC.: 0%. These characters don't appear at all. We have to tune in to the next episode for updates on their adventures. I wondered about this when I bought the book and saw that the maps at the front only showed Westeros.

So there you have it. If you're here reading reviews because you've gotten halfway through the book, don't like it, and want to see what everyone else thought, then I'd recommend that you keep reading. Slog through a few more pages; it does pick up at around the halfway mark. Although, in my mind, the endings for the various characters are fairly anticlimactic. Nothing is really resolved, unlike the previous books. And it's going to be the same for the next book, apparently, since Martin says that it will only focus on the characters who were expected to appear in this book but didn't.

I've given A Feast For Crows three stars, where the previous books in the series would have each earned at least four stars from me.

u/snarktastic_snowfox · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

I personally love GRRM's writing, repetitive phrases and all (and I wouldn't call myself an inexperienced reader at all). I am absolutely absorbed in the world he's created and I can safely say it's my second favorite series of all time.

But if it's recommendations you're after, I just started Joe Abercrombie's first book, "The Blade Itself." Very interesting so far in that you really aren't sure that you're cheering for any of the protagonists, and I hear the character development is sublime as the books progress.

Also, the Dresden Files (Jim Butcher) are my absolute favorite series. Talk about character development! He does a great job blending sci-fi and fantasy from all over and adds in some really likeable (and snarky!) characters.

And cheers to Redwall! I miss those books. :)

u/robdizzledeets · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

I also hear The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is pretty genre breaking and similar to the "grittiness" of ASOIAF. I read the first chapter of Best Served Cold (not from the trilogy but same world) and liked it so far.



EDIT: (added link to Amazon) I would also like to plug The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. I enjoyed the political maneuvering of Dalinar and his son, the 'fuck yeah' moments of Kaladin, the worldbuilding of Shallan's sketches and various interludes, the neat stormlight Lashing/soulcasting magic system, interesting pace, and overall excellent quality of the book. I don't think it had the same tone as Martin but I enjoyed it far more than Dance. Just my $.02!

u/heretoforthwith · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

Was about to post the following, then I decided to see if anyone had already mentioned them. Posting for the links in case they help out:

I'm going through my second read now, and after this I plan to gather all miscellaneous stories. First, the Dunk and Egg stories in Legends I Volume 2, Legends II, and Warriors. Then the Princess and the Queen from Dangerous Women, and Everybody Loves a Rogue from Rogues. I'm hoping this will last me until World of Ice and Fire in October (I'll read the entire anthologies, not just the ASOIAF material). I also have other things to read in the meantime, Peter Watts has a new one coming out, and I want to check out some of the other stuff mentioned here, like the Abercrombie books, Rothfuss, and Sanderson.

u/Chaoss780 · 2 pointsr/gameofthrones

They are such short novellas (I think the Rogue Prince is like 30 pages?) that I just took them from my school's inter-library loan system. You probably know this already, but for anyone else, The Rogue Prince is printed in Rogues and the Princess and the Queen is published in Dangerous Women.

Both are good, but only if you're a die-hard asoiaf fan. The P&Q especially gets confusing despite its very short length.

u/cubert2 · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

If I were the director I would do it this way: [ASOS](#b "The RW is happening as Arya is fast approaching The Twins. Once Robb and Cat have been dealt with it then shows the whole massacre in a slower motion shot with "The Rains of Castamere" being played. Then it shifts to Arya running when the hound knocks her out to a black screen playing to the credits to "The Rains of Castamere". Then I would start episode 10 with a slow motion zoom/pan out of the Freys/Boltons/Lannisters throwing GreyRobb {stuffed with arrows} into the river while the song "Heir to Winterfell" plays")


EDIT: Link to music: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Music-Series-Season/dp/B00D4IFD4I/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1370136859&sr=8-9&keywords=game+of+thrones+season+3+soundtrack

u/maedchen · 5 pointsr/gameofthrones

http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Kings-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553381695/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311425981&sr=8-1

There we go. 9 inches long by 6 inches wide. That's the size I mean :)
and here SoS:
http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Swords-Song-Fire-Three/dp/0553381709/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Seems to be the difference between Paperback and Mass Market. But I would just make sure you order the ones that say 9x6

u/Bandit1379 · 3 pointsr/gameofthrones

It's also worth mentioning for those who don't know that the first two of the books have been adapted into graphics novels (1,2). They are apparently good adaptations from what I've heard, I haven't read any of D&E yet, I'm waiting for the supposed 'official' combination of the first 3 D&E (available now as separate books) to come out before reading the graphic novels.

u/Xtremeloco · 2 pointsr/gameofthrones

Amazon is a good place to buy it at. $2.99 per episode for SD or $3.99 for HD. Link to season one and season two is just in another tab

u/av4rice · 3 pointsr/gameofthrones

The standalone versions are expensive because they're rare / collector items.

The stories pretty affordable when you get them in the anthologies they originally were published in. The Hedge Knight is in Legends and also Dreamsongs Volume II. The Sworn Sword is in Legends II. The Mystery Knight is in Warriors.

u/kjhatch · 2 pointsr/gameofthrones

It's as real a book as any of the other related/companion texts, like the cookbook, atlas, show production guide, art book, etc.

u/bowlerhatguy · 0 pointsr/gameofthrones

I haven't read them so I wouldn't know. But flick few the first few pages of the graphic novel http://www.amazon.com/The-Hedge-Knight-Graphic-Thrones/dp/1477849106/#reader_1477849106

u/OneWithHisHand · 6 pointsr/gameofthrones

Here is the order


  1. The Hedge Knight
  2. The Sworn Sword
  3. The Mystery Knight

    The first two links are graphics novels of the short stories. The Mystery Knight hasn't been published as a graphics novel yet. The Mystery Knight is found in this book [Warriors ] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AEBUPSM/) and this [Epic: Legends of Fantasy] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009QTFX3K)
u/sphRam · 3 pointsr/gameofthrones

The series as a whole is called A Song of Ice and Fire. Here are the books in order:
A Game of Thrones

A Clash of Kings

A Storm of Swords

A Feast for Crows

A Dance with Dragons

They also exist in audiobook format, narrated by Roy Dotrice, which I can recommend.

u/sethpa · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

Trade Paperback
This is the one i purchased for the same reason as the OP. I don't like the size of the mass-market but don't like the weight of the hardcover. Trade paperbacks are generally the same size as the hardcover and use better quality paper, plus it's only $1.37 more than the mass-market paperback.

Someone else can correct me if i'm wrong but usually Amazon list their books as hardcover, mass-market paperback (small paperback) and paperback (trade paperback).

u/ReducedToRubble · 8 pointsr/gameofthrones

MAJOR ASOS AND S3 SPOILERS IN THE LINK.

Here's the whole list. The song immediately following [asos](#b "is called The Heir to Winterfell. And it's so sad and mournful.")

And the song after is probably from E10, but it's chilling.

u/DrCowboyFace · 2 pointsr/gameofthrones

You can always buy Season 1 on Amazon. Unfortunately, the DVD is currently unavailable.

u/baronvoncommentz · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

> It is unknown whether the Ice Dragon had ever existed in the Song of Ice and Fire world

It is known: https://www.amazon.com/Ice-Dragon-George-R-Martin/dp/0765378779

u/ZamoGeonte · 16 pointsr/gameofthrones

You can now listen to a sample of each track HERE.
I'm disturbed about the last track (which could be used of the last scene), the name is "For the Realm", it is a harp version of the main title.
To me, harp = Rhaegar.

u/libbykino · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

The Dunk & Egg novellas aren't available for sale anywhere individually or as a collection (yet). They are available only in anthologies combined with the work of other authors, as they were originally published. These anthologies are available for kindle:

  • Legends - Contains The Hedge Knight

  • Legends II - Contains The Sworn Sword

  • Warriors - Contains The Mystery Knight

    GRRM plans on publishing a collection of all the Dunk & Egg stories eventually (after he has published the 4th story IIRC), but no word on when that will be.
u/TheHomelessTurtle · 3 pointsr/gameofthrones

I found this, which seems to be sort of like Risk

u/Hurricane043 · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

I'm not sure what version of the book you have, but page 703 in this version shows that after taking off the poultice and putting mud on, the wound had become infected.

u/aej · 1 pointr/gameofthrones

I have the two book volumes of asoiaf art. It's sad I can't share it with people around me since no one reads.. sigh.

this and this

u/Stauncho · 5 pointsr/gameofthrones

And don't forget " THE PRINCESS AND THE QUEEN, OR, THE BLACKS AND THE GREENS: Being A History of the Causes, Origins, Battles, and Betrayals of that Most Tragic Bloodletting Known as the Dance of the Dragons, as set down by Archmaester Gyldayn of the Citadel of Oldtown".

http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Women-George-R-R-Martin/dp/076533206X

u/MrPrestige · 4 pointsr/gameofthrones

These are the ones you need:

Legends: Discworld, Pern, Song of Ice and Fire, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel of Time https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0006483941/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_8pelub008MMTJ

Legends 2: Eleven New Works by the Masters of Modern Fantasy: v. 2 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007154364/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_Gqelub1W29M2S

Warriors https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0765334771/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_3qelub19F8HB3

u/Bwian428 · 2 pointsr/gameofthrones

No worries. It didn't take me that long. Maybe 12 hours for each one? Here is Westeros. Here is Essos. They make a 3D puzzle of the Red Keep too.