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Title: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Fire and Ice, Book 2) by George R.R. Martin ISBN: 0-553-57990-8 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (483 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pretty great!!!
Comment: This is a big book, took me a couple months to finish. Worth every minute. Pretty great!
Rating: 4
Summary: Convoluted, but amazing
Comment: I'm not sure how the author does it, but while other sprawling fantasy epics can have the characters and plotlines blend togther to the point where no one really cares anymore, this guy manages to make many different viewpoints and people distinct and three-dimensional. He juggles what seems to be an insane number of contenders for the throne to the Seven Kingdoms, and makes you realize what makes everyone different, and differently (or not) qualified to rule.
He is not afraid of killing his characters and what I also like is that everyone is believably shaded, morally. To often there are books like this with a hero that has one, single stock flaw, fighting villians that are plain crazy or evil without reason. These books have people that range all over the moral chart and it's refreshing.
Rating: 2
Summary: Slave to technique
Comment: My problem with CofKings is the same with the other books(I'm on Storm of Swords at the moment);I find the authors copied (or perhaps influenced) technique of changing the character at the end of every chapter prevents me from really getting into the characters or the book.Some of these characters are quite boring and it's frustrating when you've read 5 or 6 pages of a character like Jon Snow,are just getting into it and suddenly the chapter ends with sometimes a quite contrived formulaic hook.Then you turn the page and the next chapter is entitled 'Catlyne' and you groan inwardly.All of these books are written like this and I will persevere and finish them but,my god,they're hard work.No depth to the characters or storyline.The names of the chief characters are different but we still have the trekking from one place to the other-prisoners escaping and trekking,children escaping and trekking,trekking,trekking! Heroes being outnumbered two to one but winning etc.I've recently read a novel (Birdsong) about WW1 and the depth of characters and reality of the battlescenes puts Mr Martin to shame.Perhaps I've just read too many fantasy books and I should switch genres-I will complete his serier first though but I won't recommend them to you!
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Title: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4) by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0553801503 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Runelords: The Sum of All Men (The Runelords, Book One) by David Farland ISBN: 0812541626 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) by Robin Hobb ISBN: 055357339X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan ISBN: 0812571339 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Brotherhood of the Wolf (The Runelords, Book Two) by David Farland ISBN: 0812570693 Publisher: Tor Fantasy Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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