reading ADWD part 3

[salinea]

Up to p.350 / Tyrion's seven chapter, not included.

Jon IV
"You haggle like a crone with a coldfish, Lord Snow. Did Ned Stark father you on some fishwife?"
I SEE STANNIS SUBSCRIBES TO THE BRAND NEW JON SNOW'S POTENTIAL MOTHER THEORY. HE MUST HAVE GOTTEN IT FROM DAVOS VIA THE POWER OF LOVE TELEPATHY! XD

"The map is not the land, my father often said."
OMG Ned Stark was Alfred Korzybski!!! Who'd have known? XD

Also it's nice seeing Jon showing he can be smart.

Tyrion V
Haha, Aegon it is... or the mummer dragon? Mummer dragon would fit well; since I'd never expect Aegon to really show up this way, this late.

Davos III
Good old Freys. Always knowing how to best make friends.

Theon II
aznscehrfezhfnieigbeivbrigvbreuigh did someone show GRRM the darkest pit of dark kinky non con fanfics (and then that's why he's so against them?), and then he decided to take ideas from them and to outdo them in creepiness? because holy motherfucking shit. o_o

I guess it's another one for the "my fandom has.... and it's canon" list.


o_o

Jon V
Women on the Wall! Women on the Wall! :D

Tyrion VI

selfpityselfpityselfpityselfpity

and then he met a bear. (a bear! a bear! and a maiden fair!)

(the cliffhangers are so cute)

Daenarys IV
Martin does love his romance novels clichés, doesn't he?

Also I'm starting to wonder how well you could do a classic reverse harem set up with Daenarys and her would be suitors (whenever the rest of them arrive, hopefully in this book). I hope there'll be fanart of them all bishied up XD

Griff I
Aww poor guy. Just a little talk with Tyrion and his prince is already turning against his will.

Quentyn
Continues being adorable. And rather lucky I guess...

Asha I
WTF. Seriously someone needs to keep Martin away from the bad porn. It has a terrible influence on him.

Asha means to use Theon to cancel kingsmoot, I presume. Would that work? Hm. As long as she rescues Theon, it'll make me happy anyway. Well if she survives.

Asha vs Stannis (in a discussion) : that should be hilarious.

I think I'm going to go sleep now. More spam tomorrow.

Comments

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Yup, I think Tyrion is deliberately being shown up in ADWD. His attitude so far can be summed up as: "Boo-hoo, I'm a dwarf, everyone hates me. Though I also get to live in totally awesome castle with tons of books and a great horse and servants and never having to work a day in my life. But my life still sucks!"

In think in ADWD GRRM is giving Tyrion a bit of a wake-up call. Considering the alternative was to have him musing on getting drunk, killing his father and Tysha for 1,000 pages on end, I think this may have been the better choicce.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Considering the alternative was to have him musing on getting drunk,
killing his father and Tysha for 1,000 pages on end
But that's exactly what we've got so far! :p (well minus the 1,000 pages)

[werthead.livejournal.com]

You're past the bit where Connington throws his alcohol overboard though, right? So at least that's taken care of :-P

I think thematically the second half of Tyrion's story is stronger than the first, and you're almost there now. Interesting to see what you make of it!

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

"Boo-hoo, I'm a dwarf, everyone hates me. Though I also get to live in totally awesome castle with tons of books and a great horse and servants and never having to work a day in my life. But my life still sucks!"

Let's not forget the cruelty of being forbidden to visit prostitutes or walk on hands.

(If I were not firmly in Tywin is my fav. Lannister camp, I'd have joined after this book. It's like... pages upon pages of Tywin being more awesome from beyond the grave than the living ones.)