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I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree. Tom Send a noteboard - 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM
Everyone is in movement. Victarion is going to see Dany. Tyrion is going to see Dany. Stannis is going to fight Roose Bolton and his bastard son. Theon is...repulsive. Arya is going to become an assassin. Dany is trying to figure out how to do something, anything, but isn't ruthless enough to kill the people she needs to in order to assert authority.

No one resolves these issues. Not only that, but the only person who actually gets where they're going, Quentyn Tyrell, manages to become a charcoal briquet. We see no battles, no action, no resolution. NOTHING.

I regret wasting the time to read this book. I could have spent the time more effectively reading Der Zauberberg or Анна Каренина, the two decent books on my bedside table.

Crossroads of Twilight was a miserable book as well.

I am rapidly coming to a simple conclusion: fantasy is escapist crap, and not worth reading. Jordan and Martin have both created engaging entertainment, only to become full of themselves, filled with needless hubris (you're fucking fantasy writers, not someone important) and lost focus - completely.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light? - 28/07/2011 03:30:30 PM 2470 Views
It's impossible for nothing to happen in AMoL. - 28/07/2011 07:30:02 PM 1435 Views
Oh, you're so cute in your innocence! - 02/08/2011 06:14:37 AM 1175 Views
Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read this. - 07/08/2011 10:24:29 PM 1026 Views
Yeah, suck it WoT-haters! We're eclectic! *NM* - 11/08/2011 02:00:05 AM 622 Views
Regardless of how bad it is, stuff still WILL happen. *NM* - 10/08/2011 05:30:02 PM 435 Views
Re: A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light? - 28/07/2011 07:37:24 PM 1199 Views
Those who says that nothing happens in ADWD really need to read CoT - 29/07/2011 12:02:23 PM 1208 Views
~facepalm~ - 08/08/2011 12:10:47 AM 1039 Views
A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM* - 31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM 649 Views
Agreed. It could be argued that more happens in the epilogue of ADWD than all of CoT. *NM* - 01/08/2011 01:27:58 AM 444 Views
*NM* - 01/08/2011 05:22:18 AM 420 Views
That's like a pissing match between Gigli and Ishtar. - 02/08/2011 04:43:18 AM 935 Views
I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree. - 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM 1007 Views
I do request that you don't lump ALL of fantasy into those two authors - 02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM 1024 Views
You are completely overlooking his point, however. - 02/08/2011 06:12:45 AM 1085 Views
F*** you, you idiot. *NM* - 02/08/2011 06:13:48 AM 444 Views
At least he didn't ramble for five thousand words before actually making a point. *NM* - 03/08/2011 11:04:06 PM 501 Views
Are you talking about Cannoli or Joel? : - 03/08/2011 11:15:36 PM 1006 Views
*NM* - 04/08/2011 04:19:40 AM 496 Views
There is that. - 04/08/2011 04:51:39 PM 918 Views
And a direct reply: - 02/08/2011 06:25:28 AM 1081 Views
that's fair enough - 03/08/2011 12:22:34 AM 997 Views
Pretty much. - 15/08/2011 04:49:40 PM 835 Views
Wait... You want intelligent meaningful books, but you're demanding action? - 02/08/2011 06:52:00 AM 1006 Views
I want one or the other. - 02/08/2011 05:07:41 PM 882 Views
I don't mind a little of both - 02/08/2011 10:02:23 PM 825 Views
That's debatable. *NM* - 07/08/2011 11:07:51 PM 503 Views
I've wanted to say this for so long - 05/08/2011 02:21:10 AM 1020 Views
This "fluff" as you call it is important. - 05/08/2011 02:54:32 AM 1134 Views

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