Book Log 24/2013 - George R.R. Martin: A Storm of Swords #1, Steel & Snow - Song of Ice and Fire 3A

[jacey]

It's hardly fair to review this book as a stand-alone since it's really only the first half of A Storm of Swords. It makes no attempt to reach a conclusion and I immediately went on to read the second half.

Having watched the excellent Season Three of the HBO TV serries (much enjoyed) I'm now trying to read ahead before the next season. Obviously there are differences, notably Gendry's TV character having been substituted for Edric Storm and a change of queen for Robb Stark.

All I can say is that I'm enjoying it so far and look forward to reading the rest of it.

There's only one problem. Like Mr Abercrombie's books, Mr Martin's books take me so long to get through that I'm never going to reach my target of fifty books this year unless I count The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Postman Pat and Dear Zoo and all the rest that I read to my grandson. Yeah, OK, the numbers shouldn't count.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to get anywhere near my goal, since a lot of my reading is unpublished short stories for my writing group, or Chaz's short stories that are candidates for a collection. I had this problem in grade school, too, because the books I read had so many more pages than the books my classmates read. Of course, I also read far more than they did, anyway, but I didn't always record them.