Feast/Dance Megabook

fitz0

Hi all,

I'm planning on reading A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons as one giant megabook. I've read AFFC before but found the pace so plodding and the storylines uninteresting that I've forgotten most of it. So I'm revisiting it combined with the other half of the intended volume for the complete story.

I've found this on Google Docs (Contains spoilers in chapter headings) and a few other things online but they all have different reading orders.

Has anyone on here done this? And if so what reading order do you recommend?

Sleepy

It's an interesting idea. The order in that appears to me, at least, to be a bit all over the place. I'd have thought both sets of chapters would be in sequence within their own columns at least?

Took a look on asoiaf.westeros.org and there's a thread there about it: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/69980-reading-a-feast-for-crows-and-a-dance-with-dragons-at-the-same-time/ WARNING SPOILERS GALORE ON THAT SITE

Of course, it also points out that in order to read the books chronologically, you'd also have to work in A Storm of Swords as some of it's chapters crosses timelines with A Feast for Crows.

Sleepy

I've recently started a re-read of AFFC and I think I'm going to stall on it and try the outline as suggested in this post: http://boiledleather.com/post/24543217702/a-proposed-a-feast-for-crows-a-dance-with-dragons

Again: don't click that link unless you've not read either book before. There's merit to something like this for a re-read but for a first pass, I'd go with the books as they're printed. Otherwise you're going to blow some reveals on yourself.

fitz0

Maybe I'll save it for the re-read then since I won't click on those links for fear of spoiling ADWD.

Sleepy

New reader friendly version of the last link here: http://boiledleather.com/post/25902554148/a-new-reader-friendly-combined-reading-order-for-a

I'd still recommend leaving it for a re-read though.

Dubhlinner

Sleepy wrote: »

New reader friendly version of the last link here: http://boiledleather.com/post/25902554148/a-new-reader-friendly-combined-reading-order-for-a

I'd still recommend leaving it for a re-read though.

I spoiled something for myself on that one. Its not entirely safe.

Basically you know from looking at it a certain character ain't got no chapters for the latter half of the respective book. annoying because I'm at the start of that book and I was debating with myself about what might happen to them

Sleepy

Think I know who you're talking about: don't read anything into it. Some characters drop out of the viewpoint position and have their story told through others eyes for a bit etc.

Son0vagun

For first time readers its best they read it as GRRM Intended, Feast then Dance.

I'm thinking of rearranging the audiobooks into the "Megabook". Think that would be fun! But have to reread ASoS first.