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SO, how's that April 15th release date looking? Honestly, if Cersei Lannister looks anything like she does in that card, then I hope she wins the game of thrones.
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Mel looks like she might be hot, too -- if you like busty redheads with long, flowing, wavy hair. :lol:
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Who doesn't?
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Well, I can safely say that other girls aren't my cup of tea. :wink:
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Your loss. :wink:
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Yeah!! I second Sylv's and Brinn's motion, if it was a motion. But, um, give Sansa about 5 years, and by the time we get to "Dance with Dragons", she just might overtake Cersei as far as babe factor goes. Cersei did teach that Stark girl a few lessons, and now with Littlefinger there . . .well, excuse me, but, *raises head back* mwa_ha_ha_ha!! :twisted:
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Went to my local comic book store and picked up both issues of Dragon magazine. I am about 3/4ths of the way through "Arms of the Kraken" and I am once again struck by the realism and descriptiveness of Martin's prose. Some books evoke a certain clarity of imagination within me (almost like a movie that plays in my head as I read) and Martin is certainly one of them. The story is so vivid and tense...Man o Man what a series!...What an author! :Hail:

Ye gods, I just can't wait for the "Feast"!
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Isn't he absolutely marvelous? They must have something special in the water out in New Mexico to have two authors as fine as Donaldson and Martin!!
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Finished "Arms of the Kraken" last night. Two words...


HOLY SHIT!

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I know, I know -- and its just a little piece of the prologue -- another piece called The Soiled Knight is set in Dorne and is even MORE exciting!!
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Where did you happen to find "The Soiled Knight" Duchess? 8O
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Only the outline is available, along with those from a few of the chapters Martin has read at conferences. There's the first Arya one, the first two Tyrion ones, a Dany one (and holy cow is Drogon starting to get big!!), a Jaime one, one from one of the two new POV characters (the identity of the other new one is a closely held secret), and a Sansa one.
Significantly, he has refused to do any readings from the Wall or the North!
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go to www.georgerrmartin.com for a new Dany chapter, and an update on when he will be done. He is hoping to finish by the end of the year and it sounds as if he might have part of the next book, A Dance with Dragons partially finished (or at least well outlined), too.

I'm not sure how long it takes a book to get from the author's desk to the bookstore, though -- but if he is done around the winter holidays, I am hoping to have it by Elohimfest...
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I really can't wait for this book - I've read the sample chapter, but I haven't managed to get a look at Arms of the Kraken - any idea if I'll be able to see it online somewhere?
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Check the A Song of Ice and Fire board: I'm pretty sure it's...pub26.ezboard.com/basoiaf They have the chapters there somewhere.
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Wow, that place has loads of info... it's great to hear some of this stuff - and it confirms some things that haven't been mentioned since tGoT -
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Illyrio and Varys are working together to bring back the Targaryens, as suggested by the conversation in the tunnel in tGoT. Varys sends Tyrion to Illyrio, who arranges for him to go to Meereen (Tyrion doesn't know about Dany yet)....
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Am I the only one looking forward to Bran's story? I know he's rather annoying in most of the three books that went before, but I am looking forward to a character with a spiritual dimension, which I believe he will be once he's had his "third eye" epiphany. I still love the steel on steel battles we've seen before, but I will be interested to see a major character go into "head space" in a way.
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well bran wont be in till book 5
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