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A Feast for Crows | 
| Manufacturer: Spectra
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Avg. Customer Rating:  748 reviews
Sales Rank: 1421
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Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 784
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000FCKGPC
Publication Date: November 8, 2005
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Product Description
Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.
A Feast for Crows
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears....With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out.
But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead.
It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors.
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George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has written fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and for his sins spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer/producer, working on Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid 90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, a big white dog called Mischa, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula who think they run the place.
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 A Feast for Crows August 12, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I do not feel as though I could ever give any less stars than three for such a brilliant author as Martin. However, I do agree with most of the reviews that this book just did not make the cut. I really loved the first three books, and had a hard time putting them down. This fourth book took me awhile to read, as I had a hard time getting into it. I am very hopeful, as are most Martin fans, that book five will probably knock our socks off. Maybe this book was just a bad dream. This book tended to go on and on and really lose sight of the point. Martin probably could have shortened this book to 500 pages, and gotten his point accross just as well. Well, lets hope book five is out sooner than later. I am sure that Martin will redeem himself with that book.
I purchased this book two years ago... August 5, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this book two years ago and I have not read it yet. I thought that the next book in the series would be coming out shortly and I wanted to read them together. Well, I am still waiting. I have read the first three books in this series and enjoyed them enough to read them twice. But this waiting is too much. Come on George, get to work on this series and let your other projects go for awhile. I hope you will finish this series during your lifetime (and mine).
Look at the timeline for the hardcover release dates:
Book 1 - Aug 1996
Book 2 - Feb 1999
Book 3 - Oct 2000
Book 4 - Nov 2005
It's been twelve years since the first release and we are only half way into the series. Will it take twelve more years to publish the rest? Is Book 5 coming out in 2009? ... 2010? And George, don't tell me to get a life. Without readers what kind of life would you have? You owe it to your readers to finish in a timely manner what you started. You have the potential to be remembered as a great writer - if you give us the rest of this series.
dissapointing August 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
a very dissapointing fourth installment to the series. It was a big mistake to drop half the characters. Aslo he introduces too many irrelevant and boring (as of the end of the 4th book) characters. He should have kept all the characters together for the book, made it longer if need be, and dropped the characters that add nothing to the overall storyline. hopefully they will all have been vital when the series is through, but as of now they arn't. also, who do the publishers think they are fooling by making the 4th book "1000" pages, the same length as the rest of them. The type is clearly bigger, I would venture that it's only a little over half as long as the first three. Very insulting to the readers. but i give it a 3 because the important characters (cersei, jaime) are still as interesting and as important as they were in the first three books, and I will stick with the series till the end, undoubtedly.
 I am sure the "Dance" will be better. July 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yeah George, I know; writing is really hard to do well. I mostly only review books that I liked. I LOVED the first three. I read this and was disappointed. This one really did seem to do very little to advance the story. Maybe these were set ups for later stuff. Who knows? WHEN "A Dance With Dragons" comes out, I have faith that it will be on par with, and maybe even better than the first three. But where does that leave the "Feast". Let's face it, if your read the first three and then read the fifth (WHEN it's out), you have to read the fourth, just to know what was in it. Just hold you nose and take your medicine.
 Would compare to Tolkien only because there'es noone better to compare to July 27, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great book, great author great, series. This is one of the best high fantasy author's I have read in quite some time. I can only compare to Tolkien the work is exceptionally complete, all the sub stories wrap together with pure beauty. The kind of books you can't put down till there none left I have already ordered the pre-release on the next book.
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