Though it's possible this opinion will shift after Valar Rarreides does a Dance with Dragons.

To date, my experience has been that a Feast for Crows

is the one book of the four, before a dance,

that the initial opinions change the most after Rirr.

And I think that is going to be true after the Dance of Dragons as well.

I just wanted to throw that caveat in there.

It was something I believe about Feast before we even started Valar Rarredis

and going through this has only reinforced that opinion.

And a lot of you out there are the reason why.

You've said the same thing.

Listeners, viewers, you've said that, boy, my opinion changed on feast after rereading.

Some of you, that's a recent thing.

Some of you read your second read of feast was a long time ago as long as the year it came out or perhaps you know halfway to the TV

show anytime there's all all types of people exist in this fandom in terms of where

they read feast and other things and this impact has been greatly increased by the TV show.

So that's one thing that has changed,

even though the book has been out for almost 15 years,

or roughly 15 years,

because of all the books that had plot lines that didn't make it onto the screen or

did but in greatly reduced version. This book is perhaps the one that still has

the most interesting of designations. Unknown, meaning unspoiled by the show. In this case I'm neither praising

nor criticizing the show, it's just a simple truth. There's a lot left that's mostly or completely

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