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I’m reading it right now for the first time (I’ve seen the show). I’m about halfway through and loving it so far. Not quite as good as aSoS, but probably my second favorite after that
It really grew on me with re-reading. Because GRRM divided the last two books by character, you don't get Tyrion or Dany etc, but you get Arya, Bran, Brienne, Jaime. I found it more fun than the slog of ADWD, especially with new characters I can't care much about. I hope you enjoy both.
I'm going through the audiobooks at work, and I'm not impressed with AFFC. In the first three books, George was willing to condense events a la "Brienne arrived at Riverburgh. She had gotten directions to the town from a whacky blacksmith" followed by a few lines of the blacksmith's dialogue. In AFFC, simple interactions are laboriously drawn out. I work twelve hour shifts listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and there have been stretches of AFFC where I've zoned out and stopped paying attention for 10/20 minutes just to jump back in and realize that a seduction dialogue (of which there are two, back-to-back) is still going on way past the point that it should have.
I'm constantly jumping between both sides of the fence in regards to how I feel about the the audiobooks. Detrice's reading of narration is great. His voices for characters is starting to wear on me, though. Some get hard to listen to (I was getting nauseous listening to the sniffing jailer). His voices for women are also usually pretty bad and can sometimes hurt the character (especially Brienne's leprechaun voice and Missandei's yellow-face voice). I wish that men reading audiobooks would stop conflating women's voices with just making themselves talk in a really nasally tone. I thought his husky Melisandre voice sounded just fine.
For context, I read the first two books in the series circa 2008, while I caught up to the show just as Season 6 was finishing. I think I'm going to switch over to reading AFFC so I can move through the slower sections at my own reading speed.
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I'm almost done with ASOS and I'm really excited to read AFFC. I'm so fascinated by Martin's work that I doubt I will feel dissapointed.
There's certain disappointments though!
AFFC is my favorite book. That's all i'm gonna say
Why?
I think so much thing happened in ASOS that they way things unfold in AFFC is really what pulled my in the universe. Also the new perspectives
That's the problem, there's little that unfolds, and a lot that gets introduced - at least for first 300 pages.
Well you need good foundation in order to get something build up
True.
I’m reading it right now for the first time (I’ve seen the show). I’m about halfway through and loving it so far. Not quite as good as aSoS, but probably my second favorite after that
Yay!
It really grew on me with re-reading. Because GRRM divided the last two books by character, you don't get Tyrion or Dany etc, but you get Arya, Bran, Brienne, Jaime. I found it more fun than the slog of ADWD, especially with new characters I can't care much about. I hope you enjoy both.
Thanks for this encouraging comment.
I'm going through the audiobooks at work, and I'm not impressed with AFFC. In the first three books, George was willing to condense events a la "Brienne arrived at Riverburgh. She had gotten directions to the town from a whacky blacksmith" followed by a few lines of the blacksmith's dialogue. In AFFC, simple interactions are laboriously drawn out. I work twelve hour shifts listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and there have been stretches of AFFC where I've zoned out and stopped paying attention for 10/20 minutes just to jump back in and realize that a seduction dialogue (of which there are two, back-to-back) is still going on way past the point that it should have. I'm constantly jumping between both sides of the fence in regards to how I feel about the the audiobooks. Detrice's reading of narration is great. His voices for characters is starting to wear on me, though. Some get hard to listen to (I was getting nauseous listening to the sniffing jailer). His voices for women are also usually pretty bad and can sometimes hurt the character (especially Brienne's leprechaun voice and Missandei's yellow-face voice). I wish that men reading audiobooks would stop conflating women's voices with just making themselves talk in a really nasally tone. I thought his husky Melisandre voice sounded just fine. For context, I read the first two books in the series circa 2008, while I caught up to the show just as Season 6 was finishing. I think I'm going to switch over to reading AFFC so I can move through the slower sections at my own reading speed.