Mark Reads...

[shipperx]

So "Mark Reads..." is a website where he posts about books as he's reading them (he did the same with "Hunger Games" last year).  This time he's reading "A Clash with Kings".  He made a set of predictions at the end of "Game of Thrones" before reading.

Aw.  Pet's poor dude.  He got so, so, so many predictions WRONG.

Link to his predictions for Post-Game of Thrones
(No worries about being spoiled beyond Book 1.  These are just his guesses... the vast majority of which are wrong).

Comments

[paratti.livejournal.com]

So very wrong;)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Poor thing thinks:

A) Big things are going to happen any time in the near future. Pacing... it is measured.

B) That things aren't nearly as bleak as they are or are going to be.

:D

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Outside of maybe two general ones...he got them all wrong in a major way. LOL! Poor dude.

(Nothing much happens in Clash of Kings...which surprised and highly annoyed work colleague, he had 55 pages left and was convinced something MAJOR would happen, ah, nope. Yes..it's 996 pages of wandering around and battles, with all the major pov characters more or less intact. This is why they are merging it with Storm of Swords for the TV series, and bringing some stuff from latter books forward, because a tv viewer would be bored if they did it exact.)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

And then he does more or less the same with AFfC and ADwD.

Sure, they have to merge the books in order to make sense of the narrative (and keep all the major characters still on screen), but they also need to do it so that there's more going on than 90% travelling.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sometimes I wonder if Martin thinks he's writing a medieval fantasy travelogue - and maybe the wandering about in LOTR was the thing he liked the most about those books. (They did have it, but not that much!)

Storm had a little bit of the traveling, but a lot more happened, granted not until the last two hundred pages of an 800 page book. Does Martin over-write...Nah.

From what I've seen of the casting and other reports, my guess is they may start veering away from the books a bit, or use the books as a template - taking things from latter books, etc. I don't see them veering away from them in quite the same way Alan Ball did for True Blood - because the writers are huge fans of the books, and George RR is involved in writing, casting and producing the series.