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Yeah, a pretty far ways back. It's really the only thing that makes sense. I really hope that he doesn't throw a curve ball with this since it seems like this is the general consensus amongst most readers. Writers that get disenchanted with an idea simply because the audience has figured it out piss me off. It's what ruined Lost.

I know that painting isn't official or anything, but those two are nearly identical. I was getting worried that we weren't going to get Val, but this is a good choice.

Agreed 100% about Headey. She was awesome as drunk Cersei in Blackwater. We were not one of those people who was with this series from the beginning though, so I imagine if I had to wait 5 years for a half-finished book with my favorite characters missing I might have been pretty pissed off too, now that I think about it. I sorta look at Feast and 96% of Dance as the eye of the storm. Everything calms down and gets back to politics for a little bit, but as you approach the last few chapters of Dance, all the gears start turning again and it's like 3 or 4 chapters in a row of fan-hitting sh*t.

How do you name your links? Any time I put the url in it just automatically posts the whole thing instead of giving me an option to name it. Anyways, this one is called The Golem and The Gravedigger: http://towerofthehand.com/blog/2010/09/16_the_golem_and_the_/index.html

I also never caught any of that until reading that same exact link awhile ago. There's A LOT more subtle things in A Feast For Crows than people want to give it credit for. Everybody hated on that and Dance, but I can't wait to read them the second time around. Another thing I never caught onto until reading something on the internet is the belief that

LOL @ Daario Naharis being caucasion when the casting call for the character specifically said "anyone ethnicity except caucasian"

******* AWESOME. GOT casting department >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

lol, I'm actually about to begin A Game Of Thrones tonight and do a complete re-read of all the books. It should be way more interesting the 2nd time through. Also bob, one more thing I'm interested in seeing happen:

Well you're quite welcome. I had a lot of help myself from a friend of mine who may be more obsessed with the details of this series than I am, not to mention the internet is just ripe for some truly fascinating discussion about the books. The things I'm looking most forward to finding out more about in the next 2 books:

I won't go farther than that for fear of a major spoiler, but suffice it to say that I'm noticing a definite pattern to the plot now. That might be why I need some time away from the series. I completely saw one of the major "plot twists" coming about four chapters before it happened towards the end of "A Dance with Dragons". What plot twist did you see coming?