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The only annoying thing about going to China for a month (YAY!!!) is that I'm going to miss A Dance with Dragons, and just by a couple of days. Very vexing - not that I feel Betrayed or anything silly like that, but I've been waiting for years for this, and I'm going to be spending a month dodging spoilers here.
So, while I can still speculate as ( Read more... )
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I don't think we'll be going very far except perhaps a few days in Beijing either end, because of the wee one. We're not quite sure how travel will work with a kiddie, and we don't want to take on too much.
Are you anywhere near Beijing? Message me if you want to talk in somewhere that's not an open post!
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My question re. Jon Snow is why, if he were the bastard son of Lyanna, Eddard would disguise him as his own politically vulnerable bastard son, rather than just make up an orphaned cousin story rather less likely to result in, random example, "You are worth more than your legitimate brothers. Seize House Stark from Robb!"
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Now you come to mention it, it's just barely possible that ADWD might be available in an expensive foreign-language bookshop somewhere in Beijing... but I'm not holding my breath.
My question re. Jon Snow is why, if he were the bastard son of Lyanna, Eddard would disguise him as his own politically vulnerable bastard son, rather than just make up an orphaned cousin story rather less likely to result in, random example, "You are worth more than your legitimate brothers. Seize House Stark from Robb!"
This is a good question, and the book hasn't answered it yet.
Possibly the idea is that, when forced to lie for the Greater Good, Ned Stark is actually a really, really poor liar?
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Paging Doctor Freud!
3. "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" is a song about Ser Jorah Mormont and his inappropriate second wife.
This makes a disturbing amount of sense!
My only crack theory (or wild and unsubstantiated hope!) is that all the good people get together. So, Brienne and Arya can form an all-female militia of vigilante assassins and soldiers, and will clean Westeros up. Sam will finally get to study to be a Maester, and will figure out an amazing way to grow wheat in winter. Sansa will get the hell away from Littlefinger.
But what will really happen is that GRRM will give every character a number, and then roll dice to see who lives. So we can never predict it.
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Paging Doctor Sporfle!
My only crack theory (or wild and unsubstantiated hope!) is that all the good people get together. So, Brienne and Arya can form an all-female militia of vigilante assassins and soldiers, and will clean Westeros up. Sam will finally get to study to be a Maester, and will figure out an amazing way to grow wheat in winter. Sansa will get the hell away from Littlefinger.
I'd love it if all the nice people got together. There's really quite a lot of them, and the nasty people are now starting to kill each other off instead of go for the nice ones, so I suppose we have to live in hope...
It's true that no-one is genuinely safe in ASOIF. But that's one of the things that make it stand out, and I really wouldn't want to see that go.
While being completely smitten with the idea of Arya and Brienne roaming the landscape and PWNing everyone, of course...
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The book comes out in the UK on July 12th - two days after I go to China!
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Tempting to take you up on your offer... but perhaps I should see whether a legit copy is available in Beijing first... thanks!
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I just got to the bit in AFfC where Euron brings out the Strange Valyrian Dragon-Horn of Dooooooom (which I think is its proper name) and I think there is quite a bit to be said for #2. Too many magic horns cannot bode well for anybody, really. Although it would be hilarious if someone at Castle Black did blow what they thought was the Horn of Joramun and suddenly Pyke gets swallowed up by a giant kraken...
Re: #1, I did find myself following the references to Lyanna a lot closer on this most recent reread of the series, and it does seem as though GRRM is pointing to somebody being the bastard child of Lyanna and Rhaegar. Whether or not this is Jon is of course totally open to question, and there are so many bastard children running about in Westeros that it wouldn't surprise me if he pulled the metaphorical rug out from under everybody's feet and the mysterious Stark-Targaryen bastard did turn out to be Grenn or someone totally random ( ... )
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I would love it if that happens. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people either. I'd also be very amused at Euron's face when he blows the horn of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM and the dragons completely ignore him.
Sansa pwns Littlefinger. I admit, this is something that I really, really want to see because it would make me absurdly happy to see Sansa finally get her own back.
I think this is very likely to be on the cards. GRRM has certainly made his readers want it badly after reading so far!
I'd like Arya to find Nymeria again, though it might take the edge off her completly-unattached assassin mentality.
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Although nothing would be as satisfying as zombie!Catelyn Stark slowly roasting Walder Frey over an open fire. How is it that so many people have died horribly and he is still alive?!
I definitely think Sansa is going to have a major part to play in events to come. I must admit, there is also a part of me that just wants all the living Stark siblings back together again. Watching the series reminded me of just how awful it is that they're torn apart so quickly.
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Although nothing would be as satisfying as zombie!Catelyn Stark slowly roasting Walder Frey over an open fire. How is it that so many people have died horribly and he is still alive?!
It would be satsifying. One way or the other, he's sure to drop off his perch eventually, surely?
And Sansa is quietly learning quite a few tricks. Give her another five years and she will be a force to be reckoned with - especially as people like Cersei may not wise up to this until it is too late.
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