Books2Movies Club discussion

The thread about the book - questions, thoughts, quotes, favorite scenes and characters, likes and dislikes...

I read the first four books, this one I promise I'll start to read tomorrow if I intend to stay spoiler-free for the season five... Although I hear the series will spoil our reading of the books that follow.

Aargh. I just read one interview, in which the producents jokingly mention which character ((view spoiler)[Tyrion (hide spoiler)] -- seriously, do not click this!) will be killed off in the fifth book (and in the series too). I truly hope they meant to deceive us, because that really is a major spoiler, that they shouldn't have mentioned in a promo interview! Not that I particularly care for the character (in Martin's world, one learns not to), but it is annoying to know something before you read in the book itself. Well, I shouldn't have read the interview in the first place :(

I finished the book few days ago and feel a bit disappointed. It was so slow going and the characters were more annoying than interesting.

While I get the point (the story wouldn't go far later on in the next installment, right) of getting rid of one very important character (I won't say which one - I won't even confirm if the "incident" from the interview above was true or not), I feel it was done in a stupid manner. Everything he did was so consistent and true to the character until the very end, and that undid him, of course. And what to say of Daenerys? I came to hate her now for being so annoying and nonsensical. O why there is no appealing female character in the book? Does Martin really hate women so much or he just doesn't understand them? Ugh.

Sadly, it's been so long now since I finished the book, and I don't care for the TV series, that I hardly remember anything about what's going on in the plot at this point. I remember the character incident at the end, of course, but beyond that... I always feel like I have to re-read in order to catch up on what's going on, and I do NOT want to re-read those monster books! There must be somewhere that has a spoiler summary of each book.... lol! :)