I agree with TC but they have at least four pages, Feast is boring

[Gragin]

I have no problem with exploring smaller characters, expanding the internal world and bringing depth, but feast does not do this it just brings width without depth, tedious droning dialogue tedious droning description, the iron island boredom, pay the iron price, well everyone in a medieval setting takes what they want if they can, it is nonsense. GRRM seems to try to improve interest by injecting cannibalism and yet more torture on a daily basis. Feast is a tedious book. It is a book of lists and not the jousting kind. GRRM has said he made a few notes and then just wrote without constructing a Tolkien like history but this is the GRRM silmarillion, a collection of history notes. Little connection from Character POV to Character POV, no real internal story line in comparison to the previous three works. And far more sex and sexual language than should be used outside porn

[Lord Hanna]

Well that's your opinion, everyone has one.

In my opinion feast was better than Clash of Kings and Game of Thrones. Seeing Cersei's mind at work, Jaime changing, etc...was all very interesting to me.

[Gragin]

fine, its just a work of fiction.opinion is opinion

but why do you think it was better, in more detail

[Good Guy Garlan]

I agree with the OP.

Feast has several problems, including, but not limited to:

- Poor, poor editing. This may be very cynical of me, but I see most of Brienne's and Sam's chapters as blatant filler disguised as "world-building" to increase the page count. Sam's in particular were highly pointless, seems to me. I think it's clear the important part of his story is going to be Oldtown, not the journey there. The same goes for Brienne. The part about the Whispers felt like obvious filler to shoehorn a fight scene in. Jaime's and Arya's chapters could have used a little more trimming as well

- Weak POVs. Arys, Hotah, Damphair, Victarion...Martin should have used only Asha to show us the Iron Islands and Arianne to show us Dorne

- Cliffhangers galore at the end. Martin says that he split the book to tell the entire story of half the characters, but this is clearly not true considering the lack of resolution

Now, I feel compelled to add given my constant criticizing of this book: no, I'm not a hater, but I'm just stating my opinion and my opinion is that Feast is not a really good book

[Gragin]

you make some very good points. i would have liked to see Sams story line expanded properly. He has been through a hell of a lot and is the only living person to have killed an Other. but he seems not to grow from that nor be helped by other characters to grow from that. he is just a stereotype fat coward who never changes. sad and pathetic writing. He is obviously intelligent well read and determined. But not pretty like cersei her brother and others. The Iron land diversion is just that, a diversion, from the introduction of the iron lands it seems they could never raise a fleet and land based contingent to be of any threat, in Feast this seems to change without reason. Oh wow we are iron born pay the iron price. medieval society, all rich bastard were Iron born by virtue of fact of arms and just took by force of arms. get some bloody perspective GRRM!

[FakeJaqenH'ghar]

but he seems not to grow from that nor be helped by other characters to grow from that. he is just a stereotype fat coward who never changes. sad and pathetic writing. He is obviously intelligent well read and determined.

In my opinion, Sam doesn't have to grow as a result from killing an Other. Sam knows who he is, he doesn't need to go through a period of self-identification like a lot of the POVs do.