Bustard Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Original Thread: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/120058-ranking-the-books-of-asoiaf-poll/ The voting plateaued so I decided to cut it off at 77 instead of 100. The results are summarized below. ~ Format: total points (average rank out of 5) / first place votes / last place votes ~Storm of Swords - 336.5 (1.63) / 45 / 0Game of Thrones - 247.5 (2.89) / 12 / 6.5Clash of Kings - 212 (3.25) / 7 / 14Dance with Dragons - 199 (3.42) / 6 / 18Feast for Crows - 161 (3.91) / 7 / 38.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustard Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Somebody had AGOT & AFFC tied for last so that explains the .5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Can Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Why did you cut it at 77??I think hard to pick you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustard Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 Why did you cut it at 77??I think hard to pick you know Seemed like everybody who wanted to vote already did. Only one post in the span of a week, despite a couple bumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiko Dragonhorn Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Can I posthumously rank them all as tied for last? A 0 for SoS is silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatbar Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 That result is pretty much what I would have expected to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Can I posthumously rank them all as tied for last? A 0 for SoS is silly. How is it silly that nobody thinks ASOS is the weakest book in the series? If there were someone who thought ASOS was the weakest book, now that would be silly. (Though apparently there's one person on this forum who thinks so: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/58024-a-storm-of-swords-weakest-book-in-the-series/ And the reasoning is... it's slow and not a lot happens? :blink: :lol:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaimereborn Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Makes me sad that so many people don't realise how great AFFC is. My favourite by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tiger Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Can't say im the least bit surprised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustard Posted November 18, 2014 Author Share Posted November 18, 2014 If anybody thinks of another poll-worthy question, I'll be happy to roll with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tiger Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 If anybody thinks of another poll-worthy question, I'll be happy to roll with it. Ranking the regions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liaraeyne Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Guess it's understandable that AFFC is last, a lot of people dislike it. It's one of my favorites though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 The results are not unexpected. Dance and Feast belong at the bottom because these two are undoubtedly the weakest books in the series thus far. Feast was bloated, Dance even more so. Both books have significant issues with the way they are structured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tiger Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 If only GRRM had trimmed the fat and made DWD and FFC one book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nictarion Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Makes me sad that so many people don't realise how great AFFC is. My favourite by far. I actually think it's some of the best writing of the series. It's personally my least favorite only because some of my favorite characters don't have chapters (Dany, Tyrion, Jon). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaimereborn Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 The results are not unexpected. Dance and Feast belong at the bottom because these two are undoubtedly the weakest books in the series thus far. Feast was bloated, Dance even more so. Both books have significant issues with the way they are structured. Completely disagree. I think Clash is worse than both of those. And for rereads, I much prefer Feast and Dance to the first three books - so much more reading between the lines to be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toffeejay Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 At first readings I thought Dance was a big improvement on Feast, but with re-reads Feast is a lot better than Dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I love all the books, and they're all pretty close, except for Storm, which is far ahead of the others. I think that Feast and Dance have a lot of the best writing in the series, though I put Feast lower just because of the relative lack of climactic events and the fact that I'm not a big fan of the Ironborn nuncles. I always found Clash to be better than Game, though, and I put it as second after Storm. So, in the end, I had to pick Game as my least favorite. I did love it, but I didn't find that many new and interesting things on re-read, which I enjoyed less than my re-read of Clash and Storm (which I'm re-reading now). Don't get me wrong, Game does everything well that it sets out to do, and it's a great novel, but compared to the others, it's too simple, a lot of it is introduction to the story, and many of the characters still feel close to stereotypes, which the story has just started to subvert. When I first read the series, I loved Game, of course (or else why would I continue reading), and I still do, but with Clash I though "OMG, this is even better than the first book, much stronger" with the character development and the harrowing portrayal of the effects on war on the smallfolk in the Riverlands (Storm and Feast do that as well, but with Clash it was all new). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tolsimir Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 How is Affc last? I think it's the best after storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tiger Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 How is Affc last? I think it's the best after storm. ...Because not everyone has the same opinion as you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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