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A Feast for Crows Comes Out Tomorrow

November 7, 2005 by David Barr Kirtley Leave a Comment

A Feast for Crows comes out tomorrow. I finished re-reading A Storm of Swords this afternoon, so I’m all set to go. A Feast for Crows is already available for download in PDF format from Amazon.com, but through a massive application of willpower I’m restraining myself from downloading it, and holding out instead for the Audible.com version to be released. In the best of all possible worlds, it would be posted at the stroke of midnight, but I’m afraid it probably won’t go online until sometime tomorrow morning, after I’ve already gone to bed. (If I can go to bed.) After waiting three years, it’s hard not to have built up inflated expectations, but I’m doing my best to moderate them. After all, I remember really disliking some things about the first three books the first time I read them, though upon repeated readings the things that initially bothered me mostly don’t anymore. It’s been said that a great work of literature is one that can be read repeatedly with increasing pleasure. By that standard, A Song of Ice and Fire definitely qualifies. Each time I read through it, I’m blown away by how many connections there are that I never noticed before.

This morning I manned a table in front of Tommy Trojan to sign people up for the USC College Democrats. That was fun, and I met a slew of new people. My table was affiliated with a coalition of groups including the USC Women Students Association and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance that held a rally opposing California’s Proposition 73. The other groups had lots of stickers, and for me they selected a large pink one that read “This is What a Feminist Looks Like,” which generated much commentary and mirth from everyone I ran into from that point on.

Tonight for the first time I workshopped a scene from my play with my new professor, and he was very positive about it, so that was cool.

I also finally picked up some pepper spray today, so … yeah, it’s on now. Who wants some?

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David Barr Kirtley is the host of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, for which he’s interviewed over four hundred guests, including George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Paul Krugman, Simon Pegg, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. His short fiction appears in the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories.
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