Do it dude. I'm reading acok for the second time right now and it's amazing.
Definitely worth it. So much shyt makes so much more sense after reading them again. You notice the minor players that become major later on and and the subtle moves that become catalyst to major events. shyts great.
And there's no way Stannis and Jon are dead. Too much unfinished business with Jon, and in regards to Stannis, has there been any character that was supposedly killed "off camera" (for lack of a better term) that was actually really dead in this series? Even the Hound is on that little monk island, right?
I still don't like Sansa, even though she seems to be being groomed into a major player, but if she and the rest of the Starks manage to pull off some major get back I'd be ecstatic. It's crazy to think how they manage to catch so many l's when they've been shown to probably be the most "powerful" family in the whole damn series (besides the Targaryens). Wargs, nature controlling psychics, zombie moms, elite assasin warg, they like the fukking X-Men of Westeros. Their only problem is their version of Professor X was a gotdamn over honorable idiot who got himself killed before everybodies mutant powers could surface. Got the X mansion burned down and everything. Stupid Ned.