Offical Book Thread :D

[Minty]

I ended up cheating regarding book 4 of "A Song Of Ice & Fire" & decided to read the synopsis of it & book 5 on Wikipedia.

I'm glad I did, I would have been really pissed off had I read 1500 odd pages for what happened. Some of it I had guessed as much, but a lot of it seems pretty dull, a real anti-climax after the first three. Also the events of book 4 & 5 completely overlap, making it all pretty confusing - probably better off waiting for the TV series versions which will put everything back into proper context again.

The real bummer is there's two mega-Jumped The Shark parts to the plot; to say nothing of the fact that after all that massive building up regarding the dreaded undead White Walkers at the end of Series 2 of the TV series, guess what's happened with them three books onwards? Nothing. Zip. Eff all.

So for anyone that's thinking of starting reading the books because of the show, don't say you weren't warned. Stick to the TV series.