Lady Flandrensis Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I'm preparing food ahead of time to get thru the marathon. There will be coffee and cocoa going round the clock. All devices will be turned off. Then I'll peruse the covers, look at the artwork, read the Stark info, and then start at page one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Jake Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 dare i ask if anyone is going to take the day off when it comes out?!?! I just keep my fingers crossed for pouring rain (I don't work in pouring rain). But, when TWoW comes out, you can bet I will be waiting in line at Barnes and Noble bright and early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsay's Penguins Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Scream, smell, scowl, observe, revel. Destroy all indication that I was going to study for exams and devote the remainder of my life to the book. But reading it in order of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Ugh. B & N won't let me change from standard shipping (which was offered for free) to same-day within the order I made over two months ago, and I'm too lazy to cancel and change it - especially since I'd want to check if the price hasn't gone up too much. So, hopefully, I'll get it by Thursday or Friday next week as opposed to Tuesday. I'd be more pissed if this wasn't a VERY good thing for the quality of my work during the week... Anyway, let me add to the wave of people looking forward to smelling the book. I love the smell of new books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mullendores monkey Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I preordered it last week and got a phone call as I was leaving work yesterday afternoon that they got the shipment today and could pull one off for me . (If anybody is in NYC penn books in Penn Station still has 1 copy behind the register) Tuesday is date night with the fiancé so I didn't have much time ,but I did look through it for a half hour. Artwork is beautiful family trees are great(Brandon ice eyes). I'll come back with more this evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Varys Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 amazon.de told me my hard-out copy would arrive on 28th October. That's fine with me. As to the reading order stuff: I'm still in the camp of reading the thing in chronological order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AryaNymeriaVisenya Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Devour anything related to House Dayne: probably won't take long. I love it. That will be a good 2 minutes of reading and reflection. Maybe the 5 minutes preceeding to find it depending on the glossary! Pre-Andal History- Starks- Stormlands-The Rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangover of the Morning Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I love it. That will be a good 2 minutes of reading and reflection. Maybe the 5 minutes preceeding to find it depending on the glossary! Pre-Andal History- Starks- Stormlands-The Rest Just did it and it probably took about 90 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bael's Bastard Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 As to the reading order stuff: I'm still in the camp of reading the thing in chronological order. I don't have the will power to not immediately go to the Targ tree or Egg's section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tyrion I Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 dare i ask if anyone is going to take the day off when it comes out?!?! I won't be able to. I have early shift at an elderly people's home and they need me. Srsly? A day off for a book? I love my books. I really do, but taking a day off would be excessive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damp Hair - The Prophet Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 In MN usa I just found one copy on the shelfvat Target. I had to rush back to work but now I've gor supervisorylunch room duty but these kids can food fight and burn the place down & I may not notice b/c imma bout to crack open this mother and get lost in a world if ice and fire.Yipeeeeeee!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Varys Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Well, the family trees are sort of the appendices of the book. Looking on them first is what I'd do, too. They are no spoilers, but cutting the books into pieces by reading in order of interest really could destroy the reading experience. It is sort of hard to resist, but for me really any piece of information in the book will be interesting. But I really don't understand people who read certain POVs of new books first. Even with isolated POVs like Arya you never know what's revealed between the lines or via hearsay, and that would really fuck things up for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bael's Bastard Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 There should be at least some spoilers when it comes to the trees, as far as filling in the identities of spouses and children whose identities are currently a mystery. And if the spoilers I've come across (couldn't help myself) are really from the book (rather than people just making stuff up) I expect a whole slew of new theories and additions to existing theories. The things I've seen really flesh some things out more than I expected them to. Not really spoilers, but I didn't want to chance posting more than people want to read. There is some really great new information to work with (Egg's wife, and Jaehaerys' betrothal and wife being examples). I am actually really surprised at how much information I've seen about Aerys, Rhaegar, Rhaella, Twyin, etc., as I had the impression the era just before the rebellion wasn't covered much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Varys Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Well, we'll be talking about all of that soon enough. As far as I know, there is really lots and lots of stuff in there besides 'the casual theory'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bael's Bastard Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 From what I've seen it just really gives us much more to work with about some of the happenings of the major personalities leading up to the rebellion. I am really looking forward to getting it next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangover of the Morning Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 From what I've seen it just really gives us much more to work with about some of the happenings of the major personalities leading up to the rebellion. I am really looking forward to getting it next week! I agree. I only had a brief look through and I was very pleasantly surprised that there is quite a lot of information about characters that are still alive (or were until fairly recently). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelborn Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Is the e-book already available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Flandrensis Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 IIRC, Linda and Elio's YT vid about it explained that it's a history written by a maester for the current king. So there would be more modern history to make it relevant and also flattering to Robert Joffrey Tommen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bael's Bastard Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Of the info I've seen, the most shocking for me has been about Baratheons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtherSnow Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I wonder if we took a pole what most people would start with. Clearly a Chinese whisper! Maybe not. Perhaps you like to poke things with sticks to see what stirs. Stick 'em wi' pointy end, lad. (Northerner's drop the occasional letters, btw, like 'th'. Southerners change 'th to 'v'.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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