Quote from: SpaceMarines on Oct 19, 2012, 02:09:49 AM
Don't care what everyone else says, Feast and Dragons are fantastic books. People just get put off by the massive change of pace.
I read
A Feast for Crows when it was first released, and I remember being
EXTREMELY frustrated, that we really only got one part of the story, and had to wait for
A Dance with Dragons to get the other part. I loved the book, no doubt, but it was frustrating. Then,
A Dance with Dragons was released (six years later) and I loved it also. As I have said dozens and dozens of times, I think there is a very somber, eerie tone to both of the books... a calm before the storm.
Recently I found online the order to read the books in chapter wise, without reading them separately, and did it. And can say that the experience of reading it together as one massive story is far superior to reading them separately. Everything flows so much better, and things seem so much more epic!
I remember when reading
A Feast for Crows thinking to myself, "Yeah, I quite enjoy Brienne's story, but I wanna follow this chapter with a Tyrion chapter. Or a Jon chapter. Etc." - when reading them as one, I never had that frustration.
I suggest to anybody considering doing a re-read, to read them this way.
Perhaps one day, maybe prior to the release of
The Winds of Winter, George R.R. Martin may release a version that combines both
A Feast for Crows and
A Dance with Dragons (even if it has to be released in two separate books - but, with both stories intertwined, rather than having them separate as they were originally published). But...I highly doubt it.
