![]() ![]() If you show flashes of genius early on, brother, you’d damn well better be prepared to top yourself each time out from that point on. Night Shyamalan’s post-seeing-dead-people career and the seasons of Heroes after the first as examples. ![]() I offer George Lucas and his ill-fated Star Wars follow-ups, as well as M. Here’s what I think: I think if you’ve done something very successfully once or twice, the public (and particularly entertainment junkies and fantasy addicts) demand you do it better AND different or they will, without much fanfare but with plenty o’ howls, summarily behead you. So having read and said all that, I’m left to deliver to you, sans-a spoilers, my two groats. Reading through their comments, I was surprised that number wasn’t closer to a two. With almost 400 reviews in so far, the consensus gives ADWD three stars out of five. Most of those were from hard-core Song of Ice and Fire fans, people who’ve been following this series (and waiting on this new book) for years – and they weren’t crazy about this offering. The reader reviews on Amazon, however, told a different story. Felt a little bandwagonish, did those reviews. Seems like most of the major reviewers like the NY Times loved the book. This time, however, I was compelled to check out what others thought about it. Usually when I write a review, I sit down with the book fresh in my mind and just respond. ![]() I wasn’t sure what to make of it while I was reading it, and I’m still not. I just finished reading George Martin’s A Dance With Dragons about thirty minutes ago. ![]()
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