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TheFuriousWombat:
Hm, that's fair, yeah. It doesn't help any that I really don't like her character very much at all. She just comes across as this kind of foolish, entitled, arrogant kid with a warped sense of history. Maybe if Martin ever finishes the series she'll have developed into something more interesting but for now I can't help but feel that she's just not likeable. I kind of hope she returns to Westeros and her army gets demolished.

Dazed:
A Feast For Crows seemed to fall flat on the first read through. So, for that matter, did ADWD, but I've found that they both benefit immensely from re-reading. I loved AFFC the second time through (and every time after). If you're already invested enough to be three books deep, you really should try to get through them.

Torlek:
I found Feast to be boring in stretches but great in others. The Cersei chapters were so annoying but really important in the end as were the Jamie chapters. I had to force myself through the Brienne and Arya chapters, but I just hate Arya and Bran as characters and Brienne's become boring. Really I think the book is worth the read because it helps flesh out the corners of the realm that aren't covered in Starks or Lannisters. Lots of Ironborn, Dornish and Vale goodness to be had. About to start a second read through. I hope I'll pick up on some nuances I missed the first time.

TheFuriousWombat:
OK so I read it. It was OK but by far the worst of the series so far. Why on earth did Martin choose to make Cersei such a major character? She's awful, intensely unlikeable, and tremendously irritating. It didn't help the book was bloated and aimless with little real plot development and unnecessarily convoluted minor subplots and squabbles. I really enjoyed the segments in the Iron Isles and in Dorne and I liked Arya's chapters. Sam's felt completely pointless. Sansa's as well. Brienne's painted a vivid, grim picture of a land ravaged by war - I got a very Thirty Years War vibe from her wanderings. That vibe carries through a lot of the book actually, with roving bands of outlaws and deserters from the war, ravaged and pillaged villages, and religious fanatics vying for power. I didn't necessarily miss the characters that were left out but I also didn't see why Martin had to break the book into two parts - there was so much superfluous nonsense in this one that it probably could have been downsized significantly and combined with book 5 (also downsized, since from what I've heard it suffers from a similar set of problems) resulting in a book roughly the length of Storm of Swords, maybe a bit longer. There's really that much filler. Still, I'm ultimately glad I read it. Despite how little I care for some of the characters featured here, I like Martin's world too damn much to hate this even if it did test my patience.

EDIT: I forgot about Jamie! I liked his chapters. It's cool to see how he's developing from a heartless villain into something much more complicated. Almost, dare I say it, a good(ish) guy? I didn't expect that to happen and I think a less ambitious writer would have sat back and let Jamie just be GoT Jamie for the whole series. Martin's sense of moral ambiguity and character development (except in Cersei's (very static) case) is rare. Anyway Jamie is one of the characters I most excited to see through the end of this series, if and when that ever happens.

IrrationalPie:
Thought this was funny . .

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