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A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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Jan 10, 2011
bookshelves: fantasy, favorite-authors, epic, owned-kindle, bingo-3rd-round, 2011-reads, favorites, blew-my-mind
10 stars One of the best books I have ever read.
This book is the best in the series so far. I loved every page, every paragraph. GRRM rewards readers who have stuck through the pain and the length and quite a bit of detail on the history and background of the characters is provided. There are so many big reveals in this book, I think if I had put status updates for each reveal every one of my status updates would have been, “WTF?!� Yes, there is pain and loss in this book and GRRM raises the description of gore and violence to a level I did not imagine was possible. But despite the pain and the violence, I cannot wait to read Feast of Crows. And wow (view spoiler)
This book is the best in the series so far. I loved every page, every paragraph. GRRM rewards readers who have stuck through the pain and the length and quite a bit of detail on the history and background of the characters is provided. There are so many big reveals in this book, I think if I had put status updates for each reveal every one of my status updates would have been, “WTF?!� Yes, there is pain and loss in this book and GRRM raises the description of gore and violence to a level I did not imagine was possible. But despite the pain and the violence, I cannot wait to read Feast of Crows. And wow (view spoiler)
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Reading Progress
January 10, 2011
– Shelved
January 10, 2011
– Shelved as:
fantasy
January 10, 2011
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favorite-authors
January 10, 2011
– Shelved as:
epic
January 23, 2011
– Shelved as:
owned-kindle
July 24, 2011
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Started Reading
October 11, 2011
– Shelved as:
2011-reads
October 11, 2011
– Shelved as:
bingo-3rd-round
October 15, 2011
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10.0%
October 17, 2011
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20.0%
October 18, 2011
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25.0%
October 21, 2011
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favorites
October 22, 2011
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50.0%
October 25, 2011
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60.0%
"If I had a book and not a kindle I would have tossed it across the train."
October 25, 2011
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63.0%
""He was a bastard, after all. Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit." Poor Jon. :("
October 25, 2011
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75.0%
October 28, 2011
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blew-my-mind
October 28, 2011
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Finished Reading
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Jul 24, 2011 08:34AM
You started it! This one was a lot of fun - so many twists - I have new respect for some of the characters.
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My husband said this one was his favorite and #4 was his least favorite in the series. The last 1/4 - 1/3 of Clash was fabulous. It was like WTF over and over.
There will be a lot of WTF moments in this one too. I think it's one of my favorites so far, but quite brutal.
Sounds great! I need to read my bingo book before I become too enmeshed in Sword, also the last Dresden book is released this week. So I will only be reading a few chapters here and there.
That's the best way to do it. You need a break after some of the chapters.
I'm with your husband - this one was absolutely my favorite and #4 is my least.
I am seeing why people say this one was their favorite. It has been amazing from page 1.
Ladies, I am so upset! I cannot believe what GRRM did a little over halfway through this book! I still love the book though, the best one in the series. And I guess, GRRM gets lots of points for being true to the story.
I guess you got to one of the WTF moments in this book.
LOL. I thought I had gotten through the biggest WTF moments, this one was like WTFFFFFF?!
Goodness. I need to start on this sereis so I can join in the WFTness.
haha. :) I was tense all night after I put the book down to sleep, I kept focusing on one tension filled encounter I thought was comoing (view spoiler) But apparantly I wasn't focused on the right things (view spoiler)
I was wondering if you had gotten to that part yet. I remember the first time I read it I went back and reread the chapter because I was in complete denial.
I was too! I kept re-reading it also!
IF ONLY book four could be as good. I am still trudging through it. The dangling carrot for me is the hope that book five returns to the intensity of book three.
Oh no! I guess the other thing is we have years to get through it since 6 song be out for a long time. Christy I remember after you finished 3 you desperately wanted to discuss it. Do you remember what you wanted to discuss?
Aww I LOVE The Hound, (not a good actor? like on the show?) I do agree with you that this is the best book in the series by far, amazing!
Jessi I actually really like him too. I think his character was one of the very interesting ones GRRM wrote. GRRM is so good at contrasting darkness with light in one person. I wrote my review fast on my phone, what I meant to say is that it is so easy to sympathize with him and see the good effect or result of some of his actions but ultimately I don't trust him because of his choices and because of how he has aligned himself in the past. Maybe he didn't have a choice, he clearly regretted those actions. I guess (view spoiler)I am sort of sad to hear that I am ritht and that Sword is the best in the series. :( Hopefully #6 comes back as a super compelling book.
Its just with the last 2 books that came out you felt you were only getting half the story. 4 &5 are split by geography so in 4 Tyrion and Danerys do not appear but Littlefinger and Sansa do, but in the 5th it is the other way round. They are good books but Swords hits it out of the park.
I have to re-read this before I read the most recent book. The only one I really remember is the first one and that's only because the HBO series "refresher". Maybe I"ll wait for HBO to catch up before I read the last book ;)
I would definitely wait, there is no rush! A friend of mine said to me, whenever someone complains about GRRM not publishing his books fast enough he kills off a (view spoiler). LOL, it feels true. ;)Jessi, I am glad that 4 and 5 are good, I can handle good or very good. #2 felt that way after #1.
Who died in this one? Someone post with a spoiler bracket please! I forget!
Goodness! Okay, definitely time for a re-read. Starting with book 2.... *sigh*
