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A Feast for Crows

(A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

By George R.R. Martin

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553582024

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George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has written fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and for his sins spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer/producer, working on Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature Continue

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It's clearly one story in 5/+ books, so I'm holding off judgement until concluded, but I have to say this: Martin clearly knows/cares jack squat about structure and point of view relevancy.
I hope that Dance will stop adding to the list of people we don't really need to know about, but I know it's ... (continue)

It's clearly one story in 5/+ books, so I'm holding off judgement until concluded, but I have to say this: Martin clearly knows/cares jack squat about structure and point of view relevancy.
I hope that Dance will stop adding to the list of people we don't really need to know about, but I know it's just wishful thinking.
What baffles me is that he's got a core of interesting and strong characters everyone would love to read more about, so why waste pages and effort on utterly irrelevant stuff?

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Erialti said on Jul 12, 2011 | 3 feedbacks

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While I love this particular series, my love of it doesn't contribute to my attitude that this is a very good read. George R.R. Martin garners all that on his own, simply through his ability to write phenomenal fiction. I guess what makes this book good and an adequate addition to the series is also ... (continue)

While I love this particular series, my love of it doesn't contribute to my attitude that this is a very good read. George R.R. Martin garners all that on his own, simply through his ability to write phenomenal fiction. I guess what makes this book good and an adequate addition to the series is also what aggravated me a little while reading it. The characters who tell the story in this installment are, for the most part, Martin's "B-Team", the less riveting/memorable folks who still mean just as much in terms of pushing the plot along, but don't hold the reader's attention quite so well. Martin has an amazing way of creating very human, flawed players in his tale, and this is something else that exasperated me at points while reading this book. While it's great and definitely necessary, the realism in each character's development and experiences is painful--Brienne's naivety, Cersei's narcissism, Sansa's empty-headed sense of duty, Asha's arrogance, the list goes on. At the same time that each character obviously displays individual weaknesses, it seems that the only truly strong female character he leaves at this point is Dany, who didn't even appear in this book. One might argue that Arianne Martell rivals the Mother of Dragons, but she seems too hot-headed--and perhaps hot-blooded--to fill those shoes. In a sense, it is almost her very womanliness that is her weakness--despite her ambition, she lets her sexiness and others' expectations of her as a high-born, attractive woman get in her way. Despite my slightly negative musings, this is a great book overall and it served one particular purpose better than all others--whetting my appetite for GRRM's next installment.

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Chezmerelda said on Jun 28, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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Book 4 in the Song of Ice and Fire Series.

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Tif said on Mar 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Very exciting and intense book, develops many of the characters from the previous books, and will leave you eagerly awaiting the 5th instalment in the series.

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Colinferguson14 said on Jun 20, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

A lot of POVs leads to a lot of cliffhangers:)

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Sense361 said on Jun 6, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

As the author himself admits at the end, this book is not complete, as a good half of the characters (those still alive, that is) do not appear here, but will in the next novel.
The problem is, after having killed so many interesting characters in the previous book, most of those that remain (groupe ... (continue)

As the author himself admits at the end, this book is not complete, as a good half of the characters (those still alive, that is) do not appear here, but will in the next novel.
The problem is, after having killed so many interesting characters in the previous book, most of those that remain (grouped all in A Feast for Crows, it would seem) are dull. Boring. Stupid to the absurd. As far from life as conceivably possible.
I wanted to kill myself every time I saw a new chapter titled SANSA. Or BRIENNE. What a boring torture...

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Matteo F. said on Aug 14, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback