[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 18 KB, 320x240, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3238464 No.3238464[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

can the series be redeemed?

WILL GRRM redeem it?

>maybe the fiasco of the last two books just...HAD...to be done, to somehow, poorly, set the stage for an explosive last few novels?

>> No.3238479
File: 1.17 MB, 240x135, 1337182761188.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3238479

I greatly enjoyed the last two, especially Jaime's character progression in the fourth one.

>> No.3238474

>tfw stopped with the 4th book because it was boring and felt like a chore

>> No.3238482

>>3238479
im glad you did.

personally, I felt like I've been waiting half a decade, and GRRM simply can't match the feel of the first 3 books.

the 4th (feast for crows) was OK. I hated it at first, but re-reading it twice, I've grown to like it.

A Dance with Dragons is beyond redemption. simply an insult, not "to the fans" but to the damn CHARACTERS he himself spent years building up. I rolled my eyes many, many times while reading it. I am very glad I did not pay for it.

>> No.3238483

I read the intro of the first book, with the wolves and stuff and wasn't impressed at all.

Not sure why. If comparing to something like The Hobbit, I conclude this is utter shite.

>> No.3238498

If you bear in mind that the 4th and 5th book were meant to just be one instalment, there's actually a shitload of content in them. His mistake was introducing so many POV characters.

>> No.3238510

TWoW will be absolutely explosive. I'm kind of worried that it will surpass 2,000 pages and be split into two books again, though.

>> No.3238515

FACT: This poor man wakes up every morning and wishes he had never started this series.

>> No.3238520

>>3238510
Explosive like diarrhea!

>> No.3238542

Fuck you, Martin!
You should burst like Mr. Creosote, you bastard. Your War of the Roses fanfiction almost fucked up dark fantasy forever like Twilight fucked up vampires and werewolves in literature.
I am glad your series is starting to sink like the Titanic.

>> No.3239548

>>3238464
I dunno OP, I actually enjoyed every single book; the middle part of ACOK has been hard to get through in re-reads, but I endure it because I know it gets compensated by the Battle of the Blackwater.
I know a lot of people have been hating on the last books, never really understood why though.

>> No.3239763

>>3238542 hear hear!

>> No.3239808

>>3238464
Feast for Crows was better than the first two books. Dance with Dragons was absolute shit.
The series could still go about a thousand places though, and he's got seven books to figure out, so I think the conclusion will be satisfying.

>> No.3239812
File: 1.21 MB, 372x276, crazynod.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
3239812

>>3238483
>read the intro of the first book
>I conclude this is utter shite

>> No.3239823

I actually liked AFFC. The Cersei chapters are actually pretty good, the problem is that they are too many and too little spaced.
About ADWD, it's was a little disappointing (the dany chapters , and pretty much all of essos,felt as outright stalling); but the theon ones were awesomely disturbing, and it had no doubt the best prologue.

>> No.3240163

>>3238515
>FACT: This poor man wakes up every morning and wishes he had never started this series.

I doubt that. He wakes up every morning, checks his bank account and starts laughing like a maniac.

>> No.3240168

>>3240163
As a fellow poor man I can confirm this.

>> No.3240400

ITT: I NO EVRYTING ABT LITRATURE

>Stop liking things I don't like

>> No.3241221

>>3238464
I just bought all four books after getting about 1/3 into the first book.
Its worth it..right? (currently half way through)