A Dance with Dragons
A Song of Ice and Fire #5
by George R.R. Martin
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A Dance with Dragons
Tyrion
He drank his way across the narrow sea.
The ship was small and his cabin smaller, and the captain would not allow him abovedecks. The rocking of the deck beneath his feet made his stomach heave, and the wretched food they served him tasted even worse when retched back up. Besides, why did he need salt beef, hard cheese, and bread crawling with worms when he had wine to nourish him? It was red and sour, very strong. He sometimes heaved the wine up too, but there was always more. "The world is full of wine," he muttered in the dankness of his cabin. His father had never had any use for drunkards, but what did that matter? His father was dead. He ought to know; he'd killed him. A bolt in the belly, my lord, and all for you. If only I was better with a crossbow, I would have put it through that cock you made me with, you bloody bastard.
Below decks there was neither night nor day. Tyrion marked time by the comings and goings of the cabin boy who brought the meals he did not eat. The boy always brought a brush and bucket too, to clean up. "Is this Dornish wine?" Tyrion asked him once, as he pulled a stopper from a skin. "It reminds me of a certain snake I knew. A droll fellow, till a mountain fell on him."
The cabin boy did not answer. He was an ugly boy, though admittedly more comely than a certain dwarf with half a nose and a scar from eye to chin. "Have I offended you?" Tyrion asked the sullen, silent boy, as he was scrubbing. "Were you commanded not to talk to me? Or did some dwarf diddle your mother?"
That went unanswered too. This is pointless, he knew, but he must speak to someone or go mad, so he persisted. "Where are we sailing? Tell me that." Jaime had made mention of the Free Cities, but had never said which one. "Is it Braavos? Tyrosh? Myr?" Tyrion would sooner have gone to Dorne. Myrcella is older than Tommen, by Dornish law the Iron Throne is hers. I will help her claim her rights, as Prince Oberyn suggested.
Excerpted from A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. Copyright © 2008 by George R. R. Martin. Excerpted by permission of Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
A Dance with Dragons
You’ve waited six long years. Now the book you’ve been aching to read is here at last! Dubbed “the American Tolkien” by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin dazzles us anew with his storytelling power in A Dance With Dragons—the fifth installment in the towering Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series.
Beset from every direction by newly emerging threats, the future of the Seven Kingdoms once again hangs in the balance. In the east, the dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen rules in a city built on dust and death, as her countless enemies set out to find her.
To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—where Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. Snow has powerful foes, not just within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.
And from all corners, bitter conflicts re-ignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all....
Hardcover Book : 1040 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books, Inc. ( July 12, 2011 )
Item #: 12-612489
ISBN: 9780553801477
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Product Weight: 31.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
A great read 
July 10, 2012
When I read the bad reviews, I was hesitant to start this book, but ignore those negative minds. Althoug it starts out a little slow, it'w well worth it! And a great lead-in to the final book (at least I hope the next books wraps things up, or at least brings winter)
Reviewer: Mary S
So come already 
June 26, 2012
This series started slow, became interesting enough to make me struggle through every volume. This last volume, A Dance with Dragons, is staggering under a great glacier of cliche and unbelievable plot twists, just like Book #4. The author should cash his check and run.
Reviewer: Pam
So come already
June 26, 2012
This series started slow, became interesting enough to make me struggle through every volume. This last volume, A Dance with Dragons, is staggering under a great glacier of cliche and unbelievable plot twists, just like Book #4. The author should cash his check and run.
Reviewer: Pam
Great book!
June 21, 2012
I loved this edition of the series and i can't wait for "Winds of Winter"! I think it's time to finalize the series in the next edition.
Reviewer: Michael H
Transfixed
March 10, 2012
I have read all five books together and have been stunned by the detail. It is time, however, to finally bring the series to a close. This world is getting ever more brutal without respite and without sense. The charactors and story will soon get away from the writer. That said I have, well enjoyed may be the wrong sentiment, but have been enslaved by the series. The series could be more direct in it's storytelling from here on out, become tighter, more consise. We don't need more new characters, but a resolution for those who already exsist.
Reviewer: Cb
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