Monday, May 10, 2010

The Reveal

Enjoyed reading the latest Dunk and Egg short story. The title first led me to hope that it would about the tournament at Harrenhal in the Year of the False Spring, but I later realized my chronology is off by a few decades.

I like reading GGRM's books. The events that happen are as amazing and shocking to the characters in the story as it is to the reader.

It just has this sense of verisimilitude that is hard to find else where. The small and mundane details, the characterizations, the myth and legends; vivid but never pompous...