Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[dolorous_ett]

A Feast for Crows is finished! (sort of)

My day, which got off to a horrible start when I realised that the University is not observing the bank holiday my parents and brother are enjoying in England, and that I really should get to the office double quick, suddenly seems a whole lot better.

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[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I'd liked to second that SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Yay for large piles of pleasure-reading this summer!

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Yay! Wow, he sure has written a lot of pages, hasn't he? So, if I understand it correctly, he splitting it up so that Feast will be about the people on the northern continent, and all the stuff about the rest (Dany, and probably Arya now, and who else?) is going into the next book? That'll be interesting.

Thanks for that link. I haven't checked his web page in a while. :)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

He's phrased it very oddly:

The focus in FEAST will be on Westeros, King's Landing, the riverlands, Dorne, and the Iron Islands.

My first reading of this was that Feast would be set in Westeros, and A Dance with Dragons would be everything across the ocean such as Dany, Arya and Tyrion.

But then he goes on to say that the next book is the story of the North and the East... which would make more sense, as there aren't really enough overseas for a whole non-Westeros book (that is to say, it would be the size of an ordinary novel...)

Take warning from this, children - punctuation matters!

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes more sense. I didn't think there were enough characters across the ocean to fill a whole book. But does that mean an entire book without Tyrion? That makes me sad. I shall miss the snark.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

But does that mean an entire book without Tyrion? That makes me sad. I shall miss the snark.

Cheer up - there's always Jaime...

And besides, just think - in the next book you'll get double helpings...

Personally I've been most exercised worrying about what's going on up at the Wall. But considering all the goodies that are just round the corner, I think it would be churlish to complain too much. I'm particularly looking forward to the Iron Islands and Dorne.

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

That's true. I love, Jaime, too. (Mostly because it was damn clever and gusty of GRRM to characterise him as a villain for two novels then turn around and say, "Ah! But it's not that simple!" That's just a cool way to tell a story.)

I'll have to reread the books before Feast comes out. All the politics with Dorne and the rest sort of went over my head the last time I read them. I think I have to pay closer attention.

But I'm sure we'll hear plenty about what's happening at the Wall.

[bruno-greengras.livejournal.com]

Ah man, this IS good news! :)