allright, thx. I'll look a Dance with Dragons up soon.
And Zespri, I know what you mean. I find the "A song of Ice and Fire" series easier to read than the Lord of the Rings series in terms of long and endless "object describings" , as I like to call it, which made it hard for me to get through LotR. Though in the song of ice and fire series there is just a lot of things going on and remembering everything that happens can be challenging. Which is exactly why I have to re-read the series before starting on the newest book.
If you can't get through this series, don't ever start on the "The Wheel of Time" series. It's three times worse than a song of ice and fire. The story is amazing, but it's so very difficult to remember everything that has been going on. It has 11 books so far (12th and last should come soon with a bit of luck) with 9000-10000 pages in total or something like that. Read them all in about 2-3 months and by the time I finished the last one, I forgot most of the first one. That was more than 2 years ago, I only remember bits and pieces now... not even the main characters name lol.
I started the song of ice and fire series after I read the wheel of time, so it was considerably easier to read for me compared to what I was used to