Disappointment

[ladyofastolat]

I dreamt last night that I was wandering through Ottakars, when a book caught my eye. "A Dance with Dragons," the cover said, "by George RR Martin." I paused, shocked. Could it be? I'd not seen anything on his website. I wasn't expecting it for at least six months, if not longer. But I picked it up, glanced at the blurb, flicked gingerly through the first few pages... And it was! It was!

I bought it, and carried it home, stroking it gleefully, with cackles of "Mine! My preciousss!" At home, I poured a glass of wine, and - pausing only to gloat on LJ about my find - I settled down to read the first chapter. (It was from the viewpoint or Ser Arys Oakheart, by the way, which, really, should have raised my suspicions, but made perfect sense at the time.) I then stopped reading, resolving to be firm with myself and eke the book out for a few weeks. "I will read a few more chapters tomorrow," I told myself. "The book will still be here in the morning."

But it isn't! *wails and woe* It isn't! It was all a dream.

Curse you, GRRM. Why do you toy with our hearts like this?

Comments

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Eek! I don't know which is worse...that it wasn't there the next day, or that Ser Arys got the first POV chapter.

;-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

It was the prologue chapter, which is usually a POV that doesn't crop up later in the book, so I wasn't too worried. I did flick ahead, though, just to conform that the "proper" viewpoints were coming, and that he wasn't playing a horrid trick on us. Dany had the first proper chaper. Tyrion was going to be next. I resisted the temptation to flick further ahead to find out how long I had to wait for Jon.

I was really most upset when I woke up this morning. :-(

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Darn!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

oooh not a nice dream, still bear this post in mind when the book appears who knows ...

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I share your pain! Hello - I was drawn to your blog some time ago by a comment you made on the DWJ group and I've been following your adventures (I confess! I'm a chair hog! and I live in Canada). I lived on the Isle of Wight as a child (and my aunt-in-law lives there still), I love DWJ and Tam Lin and even tried morris dancing once on a bet...
I was thinking of friending you - would that be okay?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Hello! Certainly you can friend me. I've just friended you, too. :-)

Tried Morris dancing for a bet...? *chuckles* I'm intrigued.

As for Tam Lin... *slightly guilty squirm* I went on something of a Tam Lin obsession several months ago, and read quite a few novels based on the story, and have been meaning to write up reviews of them ever since. They're all patiently sitting here next to my computer, trying to remind me to do it, and I keep not getting round to it.

[chainmailmaiden]

I was in Waterstone's yesterday and I thought I'd walked into your dream, as there on the shelf was a shiny new GRRM book!

It turned out to be 'Dreamsongs, A RRetrospective'. It was very hard to resist buying it, but it was huge, very heavy and I didn't want to have to carry it around for the rest of the evening. Can't wait to get it though, as since it's a collection of his short stories, there's the potential to make it last several weeks :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I must look out for that one! I remember reading about it on his website a while ago, but I'd forgotten. Or maybe it's something to put on the birthday list, since I can never think of things I want when my Mum asks me.

I think he's just published a teenage novel, too - or so I dimly remember reading on his website. It's got "dragon" in the title, I think.

[chainmailmaiden]

I remember hearing about it ages ago too and had also forgotten. I didn't see the teenage novel, but I wasn't really paying much attention to anything else other than Dreamsongs at that point :-)