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Title: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin ISBN: 0-671-53253-7 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Interesting book
Comment: If a person can read this book without expecting it to be a Song of Ice and Fire Book, they will enhoy it. For some reason people i talk to that have read this book will say its not what they have come to expect from G. R. R. Martin! Well Duh! it was written 13 years before Game of Thrones and is about A rock band The Nazgul. So no, its not about winning the crown of the 7 kingdoms. It is however a facinating character driven story of a journalist/ex hippie trying to solve a ritualist murder of a music promoter of a band that has not played since their lead singer was assasinated on stage. G.R.R tells the story is an interesting way, as we follow Sandy the journalist around trying to get to the bottom of the mystery while finding out who he himself really is while visting his old hippie friends and seeing how time has altered their lives.
Buy this book, put on some good music and enjoy the ride...
(and for those of you that still want A game of Thrones...There is some supernatural elements in this book)
Rating: 5
Summary: Long live The NAZGUL
Comment: I've read this book many times since I first purchased the paperback I forget how many years ago,each time I enjoy it even more than the last time.My poor paperback is falling apart and is taped together in so many places. Martin creates a legendary band,surrounds it with believable characters and plot. I prowl through record and cd shops hoping oneday to see a Nazgul album.Maybe some day. If you loved the rock music of the late 60s and early 70s ,by all means read this book. I want a copy in hardcover this time.
Rating: 2
Summary: Awful, awful book by my favorite author
Comment: Let me make this abundantly clear: George R. R. Martin is bar none my absolute favorite author. Yes, the "Song of Ice and Fire" series is magnificent, but then so are most of his short stories from the 70's and 80's that most folks don't know about. Almost everything he writes works, and works well. But then in 1982 this turkey flowed from his typewriter, and being the huge GRRM fan that I am, I had to pick it up...and I had to force myself to finish it.
This is not Martin at top form. The story is less than gripping, and the characters are, for the most part, vastly uninteresting, especially our "rebel without a cause" protagonist. Martin sounds like a prattling fanboy seeking camaraderie, spouting off an unending list of hallowed rock names seemingly to let us know just how cool classic rock is and how we should show our respect. Whole chapters are devoted to pointless dream sequences that do nothing to advance the already thin plot, and the dialogue is laughably novice.
How did Martin fall so far from his untouchable greatness?? We'll never know. Thankfully he hasn't hit this low since, and let's pray he never does. Read it only if your curiosity cannot be quenched otherwise.
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Title: Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0671431854 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Dying of the Light by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 0671228617 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: January, 1977 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 1592220053 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Pub Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Song for Lya: And Other Stories by George R. R. Martin ISBN: 1930235119 Publisher: Babbage Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery ISBN: 1932796061 Publisher: Devil's Due Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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