After 2.5 hours of exhaustive reading, A Feast For Crows seems to just be heating up. Varys and Tyrion, perhaps my two favorite characters, have disappeared after Tyrion murdered his...errr..."wife" Shae and his father Lord Tywin, with the notable detail of Lord Tywin's dying whilst he visited the privy. Anyway, with Tywin dead and Tyrion missing, Cersei Lannister is going bonkers, seeing treachery in her boiled eggs. (That was a jest. While boiled eggs may indeed cause severe choking disorder, this was not the case here.) Arya Stark has arrived in Braavos, a city to me seems a strange mix of Venice but with that huge statue in Jason and the Argonauts. She seems to have met some sort of weird old guy, who also happens to have a skeleton face. No word on Sansa Stark, but, eh, who cares? Nobody likes Sansa. Jaime Lannister still seems to have one hand, and grows more pious by the day. In Sunspear, Dorne, Doran Martell, who is turning out to be a new favorite of mine, is still rockin' out in his wheelchair. His sisters, the Three Sand Snakes will, I suspect, attempt to murder him soon from their blatant rejection of his ideas of peace and the like. Thanks everybody for reading, I know its total gibberish to anyone who hasn't read any of the books.
I read 72 pgs this week
I will be reading this book soon and it is a great recommendation. I liked your comparison to it and the statue in Jason and the Argonauts, would not have caught it. Guess I should have expected it, but thanks for the spoilers, haha.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds exciting, but I'd like to see you focus more on your thoughts and ideas about the book than summarizing. Particularly for something complicated and confusing like this series, keep your focus on what you think, what you notice about the writing, your questions and connections, and less on what is happening. (And no spoilers, please!) Don't forget to include your reading details.
ReplyDeleteGood work on your IDO... post. I would like to know more about what draws you and scads of other adolescent boys to the show, what makes you able to get over not having much in common with the target audience and the misconceptions surrounding the brony phenomenon. It's really interesting. I am wondering if I would see the specialness if I watched the show, or if it's more about the culture around the show than the show itself. Anyway, thank you for explaining further.