I just started reading Game of Thrones. It’s an awesome, rich world, but there are so many names, so many minor characters, that I find myself flipping around, trying to find how they’re first identified (it probably doesn’t help that I’m reading the book in short sessions).
The map included with the Bantam edition is good for place names, but it would be helpful to have a full list of character names as well. I’m scared to go to Wikipedia or elsewhere for fear of spoilers.
Does anyone know of a general persona dramatis that goes book by book – I don’t need or want references to Book 4 characters.
The names and titles and successions of every freakin’ character is in the back.
I must not have seen it at first because the final pages of the book are the first chapter of the next book. But go back a little father and there is everything I wanted.
Thanks, Candyman74. Wouldn’t it have been funny if I didn’t find those pages until I finished the book?
I always tab the beginning of the reference section before reading a Game of Thrones book. If ever a series cried out for a hypertext edition, that’s the one.
I hate to say it, but you are setting yourself up for some heartbreak as you watch the years roll by without the next book’s release (even though it was supposedly ready to go upon the release of the fourth book). As you engage in some armchair health analysis and realize that Martin is 100+ pounds overweight, in his 60s and writes a book in the series every ten years or so, you come to the conclusion that he’ll have to live to be 120 to finish the series, or more likely, HBO will just write the last chapters themselves to conclude their series.
True; but even if he dies with the series unfinished, I still won’t regret reading it. Better to have loved and lost and all that. The books are just that good.
I don’t understand the wiki article about Feast of Crows/the fifth book. So they told him to take the bloated manuscript for FoC and break it into two. Why has that taken five years??
I’m reading through the series for the first time. Just started on book 4. So there’s no news about when book 5 will possibly come out? Is it on an indefinite hiatus?
Edit - I didn’t find those pages until after I finished book 1. Unfortunate, but I survived. The appendices are absolutely necessary for 2 and 3, as they have even more characters.
Because he’s a lazy fat fuck who would rather design miniatures and trading cards than write his fucking book. Seriously, read his blog sometime. He’s totally given up at this point, and it’s depressing.
I didn’t create this particular work of art, nor was I the one who posted it as a comment on his LiveJournal after yet another taunting post from him where he called it “The moment you’ve all been waiting for” or some such bullshit and then when you clicked on it it was something nobody on earth gives a shit about except for him, but I think it captures a lot of his fans’ feeling on the matter. NSFW language and some spoilers, naturally.
Yeah, for some reason when I uploaded it to Photobucket, it shrank the damn thing and won’t let you blow it up. Let me see if I can get it up somewhere else.
I always take care not to even glance at the last few pages of a book for fear of spoilers, so I didn’t find that character index until after I had finished it.
Don’t forget football! And, frankly, fuck Neil Gaiman (he of the infamous “George R. R. Martin is not your bitch”). Martin, as long as he intends to take my money for his work, IS my bitch! I’ve been ready and willing to give it to him for over five years now. WRITE, DAMMIT!
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that the only end I might see to this series is one provided by HBO. The fat fucking pervert (I got that from a Pit thread on him) is going to have a massive heart attack while masturbating to the thought of some scantily-costumed chick at some comic book convention. Oh, hey, you wrote another Dunk and Egg story! That’s great, you fat fucking asshole. Finish your goddamned book that you allegedly had finished five years ago.
By the third book, there wasn’t really much of a central plot left to resolve, so the fact that he’s going to die before he finishes the series doesn’t really bother me. Read the books like they’re a bunch of loosely related vignettes that take place in an interesting fantasy world.
Eh, wrong. The central plot is the Others and Daenerys invasion, neither of which has really even gotten started. The books so far have dealt with the quick collapse of the seven kingdoms.
