Fevre Dream

[Loredoctor]

Who has read it? Classic?

[I'm Murrin]

Undecided. I found it enjoyable, and an interesting take on vampires, but I felt the ending was a little flat. It's certainly pretty good, but his writing skill has improved even further from writing this book to writing A Song of Ice and Fire, which I read first, so I guess it was hard to judge fairly.

[Roland of Gilead]

I agree with Murrin. A good little horror novel, but not the spectacular book one might expect from Martin, after reading A Song of Ice and Fire.

In fact, I would go so far as to say Martin is a good horror writer, and a good science fiction writer, but he was BORN to write epic fantasy. I've read a lot of his science fiction, but nothing even comes close to the brilliance of Song of Ice and Fire.

[Loredoctor]

I have to read a Song of Ice and Fire.

[dANdeLION]

I liked it. I would have liked it better if it were titled "Favre Dream" and they won a few Superbowls together instead of going into that other venture, but it was very cool. I dislike Vampire books on general principle, but I put this and King's Salems Lot as my 2 favorites.

[Loredoctor]

Yeah, best vampire novel. Used to like Interview with the Vampire, but that's really just sensuality. *yawn*

[Revan]

I brought it, but haven't yet gotten around to reading it.

[variol son]

Interview with a Vampire? Gods Michael, that was hideous, and very dull.

If I wanted that much angst I could just watch an episode of Desperate Housewives.

[duchess of malfi]

I found it to be a wonderful exploration of trust, friendship - and an exploration of a theme he will explore again in ASOIAF - slavery.

And it has a bittersweet ending, like he has promised us for ASOIAF.

The only Martin book I have thus far read and not liked was The Armageddin Rag.

[dANdeLION]

I have yet to read a Martin book that was anything less than superb....of course, I haven't read Armageddon Rag, so there you have it.

[stonemaybe]

Fevre Dream's been one of my favourite books since I was sixteen (scarily over half my life ago) and strangely for a book-aholic I'd never looked at martin's other books 'til i started frequenting KW and realised he had a whole series of fantasy books too!!!!! Boy was I excited!!!!!!!

Perhaps a bit too excited. i'm currently nearly finished Blood and Snow, and really, all I want to do is go back and read Fevre Dream, to persuade myself that GRRM is a good author!

Why didn't he continue FD as a series instead of SOFAI?

(I'm not saying I dislike SOFAI, I just don't think it's up to the same standard)