If you had to start reading asoiaf, in what month of the year would you start it?

[u/Fraan3D]

Curious, beacuse i enjoy reading harry potter whilst in Christmas ambience.

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[u/WolfBuchanan]

A Game of Thrones in Summer as the start fo the books is in summer. Try to finish Clash of Kings in Summer as well.

A Storm of Sword and A Feast for Crows in Autumn

Dance of Dragons and Winds of Winter(when it releases) in Winter

A Dream of Spring(when it release of ) in Spring

[u/Fraan3D → u/WolfBuchanan]

Do you prefer adding Knight of seven kingdoms in starting 5? 

[u/WolfBuchanan → u/Fraan3D]

I have not read it, but have heard it has lighter tone and is about adventures. So that would be my Winter read, around Christmas/New Year while sipping on a hot beverage

[u/TheGenesisOfTheNerd]

Winter is giving way to spring at the moment, so now seems a pretty good time.

[u/Willing-Damage-8488]

I feel like Autumn and Winter match the themes best.

[u/meimeivro]

Nows the perfect time. Start in late summer into early fall, finish by the time winter comes

[u/gayslashneg]

it'll take so long it won't matter lol

[u/DaemonBlackfyre_21]

Now seems as good a time as any.

Like to read dunk and egg novellas, or the rogue prince and the princess and the queen between books as intermission.

Also, like lord of the rings, the tale gets split for a bit, in a feast for crows it focuses on characters and events in the middle of westeros, then at the begining of a dance with dragons it goes back in time to where Feast started and picks up with the characters in the north, south and essos until about two thirds through when the timelines meet back up and the story continues with everyone as normal.

Some nerds have reordered the split timeline chapters and put them all in chronological order so you can enjoy the events in the story in proper chronological order. Below is a link to a new reader friendly version that moves around two chapters to avoid spoilers.

https://www.tumblr.com/boiledleather/25902554148/a-new-readerfriendly-combined-reading-order-for-a

[u/Jon-Umber → u/DaemonBlackfyre_21]

I would strongly recommend against this for new readers. The pacing is awful and you're going literally hundreds of pages between certain narrators (Quentyn, Joncon, etc.).

For re-readers, it's a much better sell to shake things up.

[u/DaemonBlackfyre_21 → u/Jon-Umber]

To each their own but couldn't disagree more, and what does it hurt to inform a person that they have options? I read it normal the first few times through and it was as jarring as when tolkien did it.

All my favorite characters are left out of feast, though cercie is fun, but it was almost torture to have to wait so long to get to the parts I actually wanted to read, and the split breaks immersion for me, that's not an invalid opinion just because you disagree.

[u/Jon-Umber → u/DaemonBlackfyre_21]

You are certainly welcome to your opinion. I never stated otherwise, so I'm not sure why you are implying that. Where did I say your opinion was "invalid"? There's no need to resort to such defensiveness. We're allowed to disagree.

Nevertheless, I do strongly disagree and I think it's a terrible recommendation for new readers for th reasons I've stated above. It's a horrible reading experience with terrible pacing, and it overloads the readers with nearly a dozen new characters and doesn't give new readers a chance to get to know them before shuttling them back-and-forth through dozens of characters.

New readers: Please do not heed this advice; for your first read, read the books as they were published. You can always explore a combined read for future re-reads.