A Storm of Swords

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:42 am

*Sighs*It seems with every justice that was done, there were manifold injustices...horrible wrongdoings! Ah! Fear, fire, foes, awake! Storm of Swords has been the best one yet, and the sickening parts just as sickening as the last two, if you take my meaning.

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The Red Wedding

comes to mind... Oi, looks like I'll be picking bits and pieces, while Martin prepares the "Feast"...

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At least Joff's wedding ended nicely...and those rumors about Lord Tywin's "gold" were proven untrue, "in the end"...

Also, it looks like Arya is evolving from a "Weasel" to an assassin... Sounds like if the Gods won't answer all her prayers...she'll answer them herself. *Cackles Foul-like*

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 6:14 pm

Lord Foul, there is a bit of Feast being served this month in Dragon magazine (March, 2003 issue). It is a self contaained novella, and part of the prologue of the novel. Unfortunately, I cannot find the bloody thing at any of my area bookstores.

And, yes

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The Red Wedding made me mad! I had the only fullscale temper tantrum of my adult life. It's the only time I've thrown a book into a wall and then jumped up and down on it! I screamed a lot, too. But Joff's wedding present made me very happy!!!

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:22 am

Don't 4 get our group Read of A Storm of Swords at Ahira's Hangar (go 2 Links/Talking heads/Ahira's Hangar 2 get there)!!! We are now on chapter 23 see u there!!!

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 9:15 pm

I loved ASOS, but I think AGOT is better because

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while re-reading it, it touches me when Robb and Jon part, when Jon and Arya depart, etc. because I know Robb is dead and the rest probably won't see each other for a long time. Also, the Red Wedding made me extremely angry, but when Joffrey married, I laughed out loud. At least Robb wasn't killed by his dinner, plus it was so ironic, it was sweet. As Jon Snow said, 'Prince Joffrey is truly a little shit.

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Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:45 pm

I thought that was Arya! Eh, maybe I was wrong.

Post by **caamora** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:33 am

I just read past the Red Wedding part and I just about died!!!!! My husband thought there was something seriously wrong when I read that part because I just got up from the table and paced around the house saying "oh no" and "Oh my gosh" over and over again as if my life was over.

These are some of the best books I have ever read!! I almost don't want to finish ASOS because AFOC isn't out yet. Went to Barnes and Noble and they have a late August date of release. I don't know how I will ever be able to wait!

Post by **Infelice** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:12 am

A Storm Of Swords????? I've been reading this thread and it sounds pretty interesting but I have never heard of it. Who is the author and are the books easy to get?

Post by **Damelon** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:02 am

Infelice, Storm of Swords the third book of the series A Storm of Ice and Fire by G.R.R. Martin. If you are familiar with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, it's everything that that, which started with great promise, is not. Without giving away too much this link to Amazon:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/ ... ce&s=books
links you to the first book in the series A Game of Thrones

Post by **Infelice** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:11 am

Thanks for the link Damelon

. I'll check out my local bookstore to see if they have any in stock, they seem to be pretty recent publications so I'm optimistic. By the time I have them bought and read, I should be just in time for the fourth one.

Post by **Damelon** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 5:14 am

You won't regret it. It's a very good series. At the Hangar we even talked Mhoram into reading it, and you don't hear him complaining about the armtwisting.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:40 pm

Very true! I loved it!

Post by **caamora** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:11 pm

Infelice - you will not be sorry! These are wonderful stories!

Post by **Infelice** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 2:57 am

I purchased the first two books of ASOIAF and the sales assistant told me that the third book had been broken into two parts.

Is ASOS the entire volume or the first half?

Post by **caamora** » Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:09 am

I don't think so. The third book is A Storm of Swords. We are all eagerly awaiting the fourth book, A Feast for Crows.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:41 am

Danlo has the group read moving again at the Hangar.

If you are a Martin fan, please join in and make comments!

Here in the States they kept A Storm of Swords in one large volume, both paperback and hardcover. I have heard that in some other Lands, though, they split the book into two due to its sheer size...

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:04 am

Really? That's interesting. How much larger is it than the other two volumes, I wonder?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 10:15 am

My paperback ASOS split in 2 on it's own! Whaaaaa!

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:46 am

Occasionally they will split a large hardcover into two paperbacks...this happened with Tad Williams's To Green Angel Tower...the magic number to split a book seems to happen somewhere over 1000 pages...in some countries such as Britain they split A Storm of Swords as well...

Post by **Warmark** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:18 am

Just finished both parts of Storm of swords.

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The Red Wedding.

That was a great shock.

Also the epilogue at the end

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Cat has been revied, i assume by thoros

Cant believe noone mentioned this bit yet.

Another bit i liked was the return of Ghost and the fight to defend the wall.

Post by **lucimay** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:39 pm

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The Red Wedding!!!

OK, Caam/Jove...i now totally see why you love jaime!!

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isn't that amazing how martin lops a man's hand off and makes
you love him???

yeah...these books are unbelievably compelling!! some of my friends
are wondering where the hell i've been for the past two weeks! hahahaha!!
i can't put them down!!!! i love them!!

thanks again dAN!! great birthday present!!!

(am on pg 723, a two-thirds of the way through)

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

A Storm of Swords

A Storm of Swords