tags: A Song of Ice and Fire

There is a trend in the fantasy genre that I kind of wish never took root: the multi-book series. Every author seems intent on publishing ten-thousand page epics, each one longer than the last, with no end in sight. The most egregious of these seems to be The Wheel of Time, by the late Robert Jordan. The twelfth book in the series just came out in October of last year, nearly twenty years since the first book came out, and there are still two books to go. And despite the fact that since the sixth book, I've felt that I've just been strung along on a wild goose chase, I still plodded through the monstrous volumes, still wanting to at last reach the end of that gargantuan tale.

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April

2010 Apr 11

fantasy genre mashup

Because I read all four existing books of A Song of Ice and Fire right before I started playing Final Fantasy XIII, I keep wanting to call one of the characters in the game "Jon Snow" instead of just "Snow".

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2013

March

2013 Mar 29

clarity

I've been kind of obsessed with this song.

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2014

May

2014 May 19

Littlefinger and Snape

It's kind of funny how Littlefinger/Sansa works kind of like Snape/Harry Potter if Snape had a creepy and possibly sexual interest in Harry Potter.

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2015

June

2015 Jun 24

Beyond the Wall Where the Shadows Lie

Bran, Hodor, Meera, Jojen, and Coldhands are like the Frodo, Sam, and Gollum of A Song of Ice and Fire. They spend all this time wandering the wilderness for little discernible purpose and I suspect they're the most important part of the plot, but most people probably don't really care what happens to them.

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