{"id":6766,"date":"2011-08-29T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2011-08-29T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T23:40:51","slug":"an-aside-re-reading-a-dance-with-dragons-by-grrm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/news\/an-aside-re-reading-a-dance-with-dragons-by-grrm\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | Re-reading A DANCE WITH DRAGONS by GRRM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>As I ponder my own review of George R.R. Martin’s latest volume in A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, I stumbled across this interesting blog that chronicles Stefan Sasse’s experience as he re-reads A Dance with Dragons<\/em>, a novel that’s found enormous success commercially, but a very critical response from many readers. It’s similar to what Tor.com’s doing with Robert Jordan’s A Wheel of Time<\/em>, but looks more critically and in-depth at the novel on a chapter-by-chapter basis. It’s my own opinion that A Dance with Dragons<\/em> (and, to an extent, A Feast for Crows<\/em>) is unfairly maligned, and analyzing the novel without any of the anticipation and expectations that are loaded upon a first read might give a clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses in the narrative.<\/p>\n

You can find Sasse’s re-read project HERE<\/a> and his original review of A Dance with Dragons<\/em> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only is this a decent way to re-cap the novel, Sasse has some good point about the narrative and it’s place in the overall scheme of A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>. He’s nearly done the novel, now, and I’ll be curious to see if he goes back and gives a similar treatment to the earlier novels in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I ponder my own review of George R.R. Martin’s latest volume in A Song of Ice and Fire, I stumbled across this interesting blog that chronicles Stefan Sasse’s experience as he re-reads A Dance with Dragons, a novel that’s found enormous success commercially, but a very critical response from many readers. It’s similar to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n