The Armageddon Rag

462 Pages·2007·1.83 MB·English

by  George R. R. Martin

CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THANKS
THOSE WERE THE DAZE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BOOKS BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
PREVIEW OF THE NEXT BOOK IN GEORGE R. R. MARTIN’S
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To the Beatles,
to the Airplane and the Spoonful and the Dead, to Simon and Garfunkel,
Joplin and Hendrix, to Buffalo Springfield and the Rolling Stones, to the
Doors and the Byrds, the Mamas and the Papas, to Melanie, to Donovan,
to Peter, Paul, and Mary, to the Who, and the Moody Blues, and Moby
Grape, to Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Revere and the Raiders, to Bob
Dylan and Phil Ochs and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell to the Mothers of
Invention and the Smothers Brothers, to the Hollies and the Association
and the Beach Boys and even Herman and the Hermits, to Creedence
Clearwater Revival,
to lost innocence and bright, shining dreams, and, especially, to Parris:
looking at you, I hear the music.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Quotations from “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats appear throughout.
Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Adult Publishing Group, from THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS,
VOLUME I: THE POEMS, REVISED, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright
1924 by The Macmillan Company; copyright renewed © 1952 by Bertha
Georgie Yeats.

“Those Were the Daze” (Stephen W. Terrell), copyright © 1981 Stephen W.
Terrell, Sidhe Gorm Music, BMI. Used by permission.
CHAPTER ONE
“Those Were the Days” (words and music by Gene Raskin), TRO—Copyright
© 1962 (Renewed) 1968 (Renewed) by Essex Music, Inc., New York, NY.
Used by permission.
CHAPTER TWO
“Bad Moon Rising” (John Fogerty), copyright © 1969 by Jondora Music.
Used by permission.
CHAPTER THREE
“Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?” (words and music by John
Sebastian), copyright © 1965 by Alley Music Corp. and Trio Music Company.
Copyright renewed. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used
by permission of Alley Music Corporation and Trio Music Company.
“Daydream” (words and music by John Sebastian), copyright © 1966 by
Alley Music Corp. and Trio Music Company. Copyright renewed.
International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission of
Alley Music Corporation and Trio Music Company.
CHAPTER FOUR
“House Burning Down” (Jimi Hendrix), copyright © 1968 by Experience
Hendrix, L.L.C. Used by permission/All rights reserved.