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Am now on Storm of Swords (700 pages, 500 pages, and this one...1000 pages?) I CANNOT STOP. Grow up, I want to tell the characters. Hurry on, time, and I keep reading. Word after word, it just doesn't stop. The story keeps going and very few odd literary critique thoughts pass and my head's full of a fantasy as I've never known. There's actually magic in this book. Magic and powers and dragons and pseudo-medievalism and I can actually stomach them despite lack of Tolkien anagogical grandiosity. It's impossible. Today was 3.5 hours in lecture/discussion on air pollution epidemiology (not one of my favorite topics) where I was an ear out but two eyes on the book (still got 5 snicker bits, yes, they feed us candy in graduate school), then another 2.5 hours in a review session for the Dire Exam, and I read and read and finally carried Tavi the Netbook to the gym with me and set it on top of the treadmill where I got to the part where I fell in love with Jaime Lannister a bit until I remembered the Wiki spoiler I read (should've never read them at all ) and started weeping.
Then I got ensnared in a conversation somewhere and all I want to is to talk about A Song of Ice and Fire and how can I be 25 and cram another fantasy world in my head at this late stage and I don't care. The world is cruel and people are young live their lives bearing their follies and consequences..
GRRM writes so much better than Turtledove and is gentler than Jennnings (why historiclal fiction writers seem often to set their sights on sensationalism is very odd). It's the adventure that catches the breath, fanciful world or no.
Just checked. The last book will be out July 12 this year. That's the last day of the Exam. If I had read these books earlier, it would've been an interminable wait. *is still bitter over The Amber Spyglass*
Then I got ensnared in a conversation somewhere and all I want to is to talk about A Song of Ice and Fire and how can I be 25 and cram another fantasy world in my head at this late stage and I don't care. The world is cruel and people are young live their lives bearing their follies and consequences..
GRRM writes so much better than Turtledove and is gentler than Jennnings (why historiclal fiction writers seem often to set their sights on sensationalism is very odd). It's the adventure that catches the breath, fanciful world or no.
Just checked. The last book will be out July 12 this year. That's the last day of the Exam. If I had read these books earlier, it would've been an interminable wait. *is still bitter over The Amber Spyglass*