I gave up on AFFC and never went back. I had intended to once ADWD came out but I just haven't been able to find the interest. And this is after reading all the other books in a couple of weeks, AFFC just stopped me dead.Martin's writing in most of ASOIAF isn't to my taste, but the fact that so little happens in AFFC makes it really annoying because there's no pay off for trudging through so much verbosity. I just lost interest in everything by the time it was over. My brain was numb. Even the twists and the things I knew were supposed to be huge events just kind of felt like "I read 700 pages and this is all I get?"