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Originally Posted by Hawk
Books 4 and 5 weren't as well received as book 3, but they were still excellent. It's just that book 3 was as good a book as I've ever read, so the next two just didn't quite measure up to that lofty standard. Book 3 was action packed with great twists and surprises and tons of significant events. It had a lot of fun payoffs. They have done two full seasons of the show off that one book now, and there are still a couple of events they held for next season. That's pretty amazing if you think about it
Books 4 and 5 were not as action packed throughout, so they suffer by comparison. On the other hand, they contain a lot of great hidden details and spawned a lot of theories and discussions. Besides, the show won't suffer from the main problem with books 4 and 5, and that was the weird structure of them.
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TV audiences are not going to want to watch Danery's rule Mereen. Watch the Dorn ruling family make decisions. Watch an army drudge through the snow. And so on and so on. There seems to me a lot of books 4 and 5 that were great books but won't make great TV.
They have saved Lady Stoneheart, Jon Snow's possible death
etc. I just don't see enough there for next year to stay in book 4 only.
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Originally Posted by Hawk
That's why it's better to read those books together as one giant book using one of the chapter lists on the internet. It helps the timeline make more sense and you get all the characters at once that way.
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I was going to do that but got talked out of it by the veteran book readers here.
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Originally Posted by Hawk
book 6 has a legit chance to be just as awesome as book 3 was! Write GRRM, write!!!
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Agreed. Book 6 is primed to be as good as book 3.
