![]() ![]() At this point in the narrative, readers have been following the action in Martin’s magical, medieval world for years. ![]() A Dance With Dragons is the fifth of at least seven books. I’m a fan-I’ve read all of the books several times, and even the most flawed bits of the series (and A Dance With Dragons may be the most flawed) leave you desperately wanting to know what happens next.īut all is not well in Westeros. Fair enough: Martin’s descriptions are rich, his plotting detailed, and his writing engrossing. Martin is popular because his books are “ fantasy for people who hate fantasy,” or “ The Wire in Middle Earth,” as some reviewers have explained. Tolkien and profiled in The New Yorker, and HBO has vowed to continue making Game of Thrones “as long as keeps writing.” The HBO show, dubbed Game of Thrones after the first book in the series, has been a commercial success, spurring sales of all five novels. Martin has been praised as the American J.R.R. “A Song of Ice and Fire,” his epic fantasy series, just finished its first season as an HBO television show, and his latest book, a 1,040-page tome called A Dance With Dragons, recently hit No. Martin is more famous than he’s ever been. A Dance With Dragons (Book Five of “A Song of Ice and Fire”)Īt 62, novelist and former Hollywood screenwriter George R.R. ![]()
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