Kevin's Watch

Hello. I'm new to this board and thrilled to see a GRRM forum. I read AGOT four years ago, then ACOK two years ago, and I recently finished ASOS (no, I'm not a slow reader, just read many other things in between).

Today while browsing in Borders I found a huge display with a new edition paperback of AGOT, on sale for $3.99. Above that were freebies -- "A Special Pre-publication Excerpt" of AFFC. Its called the Captain of the Guards Excerpt (as opposed to the Cersei excerpt I suppose). Its about 20 pages long.

The discounted price on the AGOT is a good idea on the publisher's part, to get newcomers hooked before the book 4 is published.

its not a new chapter its the intro pov of the prince of dornes captain of the gaurd. you can find a summary on rans

So how many excerpts have been released/read, total? Cersei, the Captain of the Guard, something about Sam, something about Arya... it's gonna be half the book, pretty soon.

There are several Dorne chapters as well.

Check out the AFFC forum at Ran's for spoiler chapters:

b15.ezboard.com/basoiaf

i persoanly have heard or read 10. we (the fangroups) have had

2 jaime

2 cercie

2 tyrion

2 arya

arms of the kraken. .a oclelciton of greyjoy chapter

2-3 dornish ones cant remember. atl east the captain of the gaurd and 1 pricness of dorne and the soiled knight. so 3

2 dany

1 sansa

1 jon

1 sam

Wow. I had no idea so many had been released. I take it these appeared at GRRM's website.

I guess the Dany, Jon and Sam chapters will be DWD and not FFC, since he has split the plot lines into two books.

tylertoo,

Yes and many have been read at conventions, etc. and boarders at Ran's have provided synopses.

Considering that each book gets another 200 or so pages longer than the last, those excerpts are a drop in the bucket! Probably a good idea to keep fan fervor stoked if you're going to take such a long time to write the durn thing.

some from his site, some at cons, some in special fantasy magazines. and summaries for all can be found at rans

OMG! I better start reading. The only one I found was on his website.

hes rotated 3-4 on his site. all the iron island oens were in a special adition of Dragon Magazine a couple of years ago. a couple have been given out to people on rans board as thank yous for birthday presents too i think

Duchess emailed me "Arms of the Kraken." It was excellent. Made me want AFFC even more.

The Captain of the Guard excerpt is fun. Really made me want to read the whole book. It's better being able to read the entire chapter rather than just getting the highlights reported from a convention, though those are great, too.

And I am glad we get to go visit Dorne. I have been wanting to visit that part of Westeros ever since I met the Red Viper in ASOS.

Spoiler

Don't the Sand Snakes sound cool????

I also think its a great idea to market AGOT at a very low price to hook in new readers as the next book in the series is about to be released. That's not the only series that's being done with, either -- the first book in Diane Gabaldon's series was also recently released at the same price (her latest book has just been released). So I picked up Outlander. I've only previously read her short story in the Legends 2 anthology, but that was good, and I though why not give her a try at $3.99?

Where did you see it, Duchess?

It was at Borders, Lady Caam.

I just found another excerpt, this on on-line at Locus Magazine.

www.locusmag.com/2005/Features/10_GRRM_Excerpt.html

Maybe this has been around, not sure.