Amazon.co.uk is shipping A Feast for Crows

[LeftyMom]

With shipping to the US it's about $30 so I decided to do that instead of waiting for the US release next month.

Just a little heads up for others waiting on this book. :)

[Orsino]

1. Here's a bit of trivia for ASoIaF fans...

...from the 1998 Legends 2 anthology, containing Martin's marvelous prequel, The Hedge Knight. Working titles apparently change, for in that year the projected four-volume series was eventually to consist of:

A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Dance With Dragons (forthcoming)
The Winds of Winter (forthcoming)

Now, of course, Martin says that the completed opus will "probably require seven books".

[LeftyMom]

2. And the RW (the bad thing in book 3) originally was to occur in AGOT.

Paris has said she expects 7 books all along though, which makes sense what with the significance of the number 7 in the seven kingdoms.

BTW, have you seen the Hedge Knight graphic novel? It's rather well done, I think.

[Orsino]

3. The HK graphic novel was decent...

...as far as comics go, but wasn't nearly as richly detailed or as triumphantly uplifting as the original short novel. I can't praise the previous work highly enough.

[davidinalameda]

5. 7 books????

at about $25 a pop

damn that man is gonna make some money off of me

[NewJeffCT]

11. 3 books, 4 books, and now 7?

Man, if this guy wasn't a liberal, I'd be throwing my hands up in frustration. I think I started reading Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series back in the 80s and have given up on that one... and, with the way Martin writes, I may be retired by the time book 7 comes out (I'm 38)

[LeftyMom]

12. Yeah, but the WOT sucks.

He can write 12 books, as long as they're all good and I never read the phrase "Sansa tugged at her braids."

[NewJeffCT]

13. LOL

The first 3 1/2 books of Wheel of Time were pretty good... then, it started sucking.

Granted, even the best parts of WoT are not as good as Martin's stuff.

[LeftyMom]

4. I got it today.

I'm going to put my Rabbit With Big Pointy Teeth slippers on (since they arrived in today's mail too,) make a mug of soy mint cocoa, put my feet up and find out who dies in this one. :D



I really hope Jaime offs Cersei- does that make me a bad woman?

[davidinalameda]

6. no

but who's going to off Jaime?

[LeftyMom]

7. My guess?

Then-grown Tommen, having discovered the secret of his parentage, in book 7.

[davidinalameda]

8. interesting

I could see that

or maybe the girl

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Danyeris. He killed her father, remember?

[LeftyMom]

14. That's a bit too neat for GRRM

a revenge plotline like that is a bit of a fantasy cliche.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. true, he is more subtle than that. The list of those who would

want Circe and Jaime both dead is quite long, and surprises abound in his books.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. well I can be jealous, but I will be done with my re read of

"Storm of Swords" by the end of the month and can just jump into the new book as soon as I can get my hands on it.

I have a couple of small books that will tide me over if I have any down time. I am about 1/2 way through vol 3, but there are days when I only get one chapter read, so I think my timing is OK.

This has been a long wait, and I sure hope it doesn't take 3 years for #5 to be completed. Seems to me he has a good start on it since it was culled out of volume 4. Hope that is the case, anyway.

[XemaSab]

16. Well

It hasn't taken 5 years for the next book to come out. :P