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Finally...
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:16 am
by variol son
I finally bought my copy of
Blood and Gold today, after trying for nearly three months. None of the book stores I went to could seem to locate it.
So now I can finish and be up to date with everyone else.
I loved the first chapter, Daenerys is just the best. THE BEST!
I so can't wait for the next chapter of hers, although Arya and Catelyn were both pretty good.
And I love Jaime more and more all the time.
Sum sui generis
Vs
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:30 am
by variol son
OMG! The Red Wedding.
That was the most shocking and surreal thing I have read in the series so far. And I knew it was coming!
It was just so...wrong. Lord Frey having them murdered despite offering them bread and salt. And on his daughters wedding night. No wonder she looked so scared.
I would not like to be Walder Frey or Roose Bolton if either Stannis or Daenerys gain power of Westeros.
Sum sui generis
Vs
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:38 pm
by Roland of Gilead
The Red Wedding is one of the most intense scenes I've ever read. It was like witnessing a car wreck, horrified, and yet unable to look away. It takes great writing skills to create such a powerful response in a reader.
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:14 pm
by I'm Murrin
Amazing scene - with the cacophony of sound turning to 'the Raines of Castamere' turning to the single drumbeat as everybody dies, it would make a great cinematic sequence. As would many of the scenes in aSoIaF.
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:19 pm
by Worm of Despite
Roland of Gilead wrote:The Red Wedding is one of the most intense scenes I've ever read. It was like witnessing a car wreck, horrified, and yet unable to look away. It takes great writing skills to create such a powerful response in a reader.
Yeah, I remember having a sort of semi-adrenaline rush whilst reading it. Nothing I've ever read before or since has given me such an acute, indescribable feeling.
And oh yeah, seeing the Red Wedding on the big screen done properly would be
mindblowing. I'd love it even more than the Lord of the Rings movies, just for that scene.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:14 am
by Lord Mhoram
Blood and Gold is part 2 of ASOS, right? In Amerca there aren't two books, just one.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:19 am
by variol son
Oh, sorry.
Blood and gold is
A Storm of Swords part two.
Steel and Snow is
A Storm of Swords part one.
Sum sui generis
Vs
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:16 pm
by Lord Mhoram
Yes, I remember seeing them in London last summer. Just making sure.
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:41 am
by FizbansTalking_Hat
What is this about A Storm of Swords Part I & II, isn't it just a massive volume book, I have 3 books all together?
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:52 am
by variol son
It's only one large volume in the US. Everywhere else it is two, still very large, volumes: Steel and Snow and Blood and Gold.
Sum sui generis
Vs
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:58 pm
by I'm Murrin
Apparently some publishers thought it was too big to go into a single paperback (maybe they hadn't seen Tad Williams' 'To Green Angel Tower').