Oh yeah, that chapter just... It took all the restraint I had not to throw the book across the room at that point. But you know the saying about George R.R. Martin...
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Every time someone asks him about when a new book is coming out he kills a Stark...
As for The Hunger Games, I'm just personally not a fan of books written in first person, present tense. There's something about it that just drives me a little crazy.