George R. R. Martin (as well as other recommendations)

[Hahma]

Originally Posted by DoesntCompute

Yup and I disagree with your opinion of it. There are portions of the series that are slower than others but even the slow periods have a reason for being (imo, in some cases, we may not know that reason yet).

I agree DC. While there were some slow parts at times, I never felt that it was filler or wasteful.

[DoesntCompute]

Originally Posted by Onion Knight

I just looked it up on Wiki. Just what I was looking for. I'm going to pick it up on the way home from work.
Thanks.

Donaldson's White Gold Wielder series is a good read.

[Onion Knight]

Originally Posted by DoesntCompute

Donaldson's White Gold Wielder series is a good read.

Thanks, DC. I picked up the first book from that series too. (Too bad that I read so slowly.)

[Riggler]

Originally Posted by Velenne

Have you read "Feast for Crows" yet? Many of the showcased characters were entirely pointless and had zero discernible impact on the overall plot.

Finally, someone who is not such a "fanboy" that they are willing to realize his last book was an utter disappointment.

GRRM is too fat and happy collecting his knights and going to conventions.

[InfinityMax]

Originally Posted by Velenne

Have you read "Feast for Crows" yet? Many of the showcased characters were entirely pointless and had zero discernible impact on the overall plot.

I was a little disappointed in Feast for Crows. It wasn't nearly as good as the previous books, particularly because it left out many of my favorite characters completely. I didn't feel like there was as much evolution of the plot as in previous books, and the stuff that did happen could have been much shorter and got to the same place.

[DoesntCompute]

Originally Posted by InfinityMax

I was a little disappointed in Feast for Crows. It wasn't nearly as good as the previous books, particularly because it left out many of my favorite characters completely. I didn't feel like there was as much evolution of the plot as in previous books, and the stuff that did happen could have been much shorter and got to the same place.

I felt like I was reading half a book. I viewed it as reading the first half of one of his regular books. An unusual situation but the book was better when I viewed it like that.

[Sweetcurse]

I disagree, FFC was awesome. I see it more as a book about the setting of ASOIF than a character piece, though there's plenty of that too. If you get over not having the main guys and just enjoy the ride across the world of Westeros, then you can have a great time.

[Joah]

While I'm at work, I've been listening to ACoK read by Roy Dotrice.

Every fan of these books should give this a try. Good stuff.

[Jonathan]

Looks like the ASOIAF minis are out, but alas, they are too small for Heroscape. Not like there is a lot of scheming and intrigue that goes on in Heroscape - they'd probably be out of place

[Joah]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Looks like the ASOIAF minis are out, but alas, they are too small for Heroscape. Not like there is a lot of scheming and intrigue that goes on in Heroscape - they'd probably be out of place

Have you seen them? Can you confirm size difference? Just curious, as I will be getting them all regardless.

[Jonathan]

They look great, but they're 35mm? scale - like dwarves or something compared to the rest of the scape figures.

Dwarves!


Link's on his website, by the way - I think in the "Not a Blog" section.

[Hahma]

Here's a link to FRP games website with the figures.




http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=p...c=1079&ref=goo