Amazon.com info for 'A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)'

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Rating: 5 Summary: great but wait
Comment best start to a fantasy series i've read. But definitely wait till they last 3 installments come out before diving it. It's no fun to wait a few years between books.

it's the best of the first four books (that are out now)

Rating: 4 Summary: Every book, every page, every word better than the last.
Comment I couldn't possibly recommend this series more. For fans of epic sword and sorcery this is a must read. I put off reading the series for most of a decade and positively ran through it, and have since gone back and reread it twice.

Rating: 5 Summary: swords and kings etc
Comment Great book, great author great, series. This is one of the best high fantasy author's I have read in quite some time. I can only compare to Tolkien the work is exceptionally complete, all the sub stories wrap together with pure beauty. The kind of books you can't put down till there none left I have already ordered the pre-release on the next book.

Rating: 2 Summary: Save Yourself... Before it's too late
Comment If you haven't started reading this series, it's fair to say that you shouldn't start. While the first two books are admittedly long winded, they are well done. That's what makes this third book such a tragedy. At some point in the third book one realizes that you've invested in a tragedy where perhaps only a few will survive. The only problem is that Shakespeare did it better in only a fraction of the pages. But there it is. By the time you get to the third book you feel obligated to continue, if only for a glimmer of hope to come through.

This is definitely the weakest book of the series so far and in some places even gets a bit repetitive (both sword duels reflect professional wrestling as the victors drop their guard momentarily after winning and are suddenly put down). Martin may argue that the large number of irked reviews for this book is somehow a positive, but he should remember it's not positive if people are telling each other to stay away. That I may not even be half way through this series after 3 books is what is truly tragic. Many are right to comment that it appears that the emperor has no clothes.

For a truly satifying experience, read Martin's short stories of Dunk, which take place at an earlier time within this world. Then move on to something else...before it's too late.

Rating: 1 Summary: How can anyone rate this book or the first two above one star
Comment I guess my taste in fantasy is not similar to those who review the books on Amazons site.

I was stunned to read all the reviews of how great this book series was and then to read them. There were many plots. Unfortunately most of the plots ended up going no where. When you get to the end of the book you kind of go huh? Some plots had detail that made you wonder if you were in an R-Rated type book. I guess the idea was to not leave anything to your imagination but just describe really gross and disgusting scenes.

There were a few sections which gave you hope that the story was going to take off as the reviews indicated, but it never happened. In the end you were left wondering if there was another book coming since most of the plots didn't come to a conclusion, they were just kind of left hanging. As I got closer to the end with few pages left I was wondering how is he going to wrap everything up. Well the laugh was on me, he simply didn't wrap them up and the one he did, didn't make sense if you've read any good fantasy.

I couldn't recommend this series of books to anyone!