Read A Song Of Ice And Fire 2016 discussion

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So the Hound goes and yaps to Sansa about what happened to his face. Then he proceeds to say "If you ever tell anyone (about it), I will kill you."

Exactly why did he feel the need to tell her that? Does he not know to keep his mouth shut if he doesn't want anybody to know the story?

Why did he do that? Just because he was loaded?

I think he wanted Sansa to see the more vunerable side of him and the reason he is so merciless.

Terry wrote: "I think he wanted Sansa to see the more vunerable side of him and the reason he is so merciless."

Oh that makes sense Terry.

I thought the wine giving him loose lips could not be the only reason.

These characters have as much baggage as Air Canada!!!

That is what makes this series excellent - each character has their own "baggage", they each have an equally good & bad side.

Okay, so I'm in the middle of reading this chapter now and here are my thoughts:
1. My heart aches (and trust me, that is not a hyperbole... nor am I having a heart attack, I'm way too young for that :D) because I can't be in Westeros and meet all the characters and see all the woods and the castles, the knights, the bards, all of it. All I want to do right now is to be there, even if only as a standby-er (is there even such a word?). I want to inhale the thick smells of the air in King's Landing and the freshness of the deep forests, I want to feel the soft sinks and shiny steel they keep talking about, and damn it, I can't even get near any of it. And that hurts. A lot.... It's also proof of the greatness of the book, of course, but... pain.

2. I've always thought of Sansa as the stereotypical weak "princess" character I hate so much. But re-reading AGoT, I have to admit, she's much more layered than that. I mean, don't get me wrong, I still can't stand her, I guess I just find her a tad bit more interesting now. And honestly, this type of thinking - Jeyne Poole wept so hysterically that Septa Mordane finally took her off to regain her composure, but Sansa sat with her hands folded in her lap, watching with a strange fascination. She had never seen a man die before. She ought to be crying too, she thought, but the tears would not come. Perhaps she had used up all her tears for Lady and Bran. It would be different if it had been Jory or Ser Rodrik or Father, she told herself. The young knight in the blue cloak was nothing to her, some stranger from the Vale of Arryn whose name she had forgotten as soon as she heard it. And now the world would forget his name too, Sansa realized; there would be no songs sung for him. That was sad. - is almost text-book psychopathic and made my blood... well, not freeze, but I think it at least got a few degrees colder.

This chapter really gives a good insight to the dynamic between characters. It makes me curious to see how Sansa's and the Hound's relationship will develop, and how future interactions between them go. Neither of them are my favorite characters but I would like to see more interaction between these two drastically different characters.

thoughts while reading:
Sansa seems to be a dreamer in her own way. Arya and Sansa grew up hearing the same stories. Arya ended up wanting to BE the knight/fighter/hero whereas Sansa was wooed by the romance of it and wants to be WITH the knight/fighter/hero.
I think the Hound tells her because he waznts her to know that being a knight isn't at all like they sing in the songs-not all knights are good people. (view spoiler)[He knows what Joffrey is like and is probably warning her in his own way. (hide spoiler)]

I forgot how much I hated Sansa in this book.

I hated Sansa too in this book. Now I just pitty her.