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Kana -> RE: Game of Thrones (10/14/2012 11:24:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Lucifyre
If the greedy fucker would quit writing about food for crap sake he could finish the damn books and make his fanbase happy.
Sadly I think at this point anything else he writes in the book series is going to be a rush job and is going to suck worse than the last 2 books.
I gobbled up the first one and couldn't get enough...then his writing style changed and he jumped around way too much to hold much of my attention but I still slogged through. Then out came A Dance and I couldn't even make it past halfway.
Great stuff coming out of the gate, but someone shot that horse in the leg partway through the race. The end is too predictable and won't get finished. And it's not nearly good enough to survive with a hugenormous fanbase like Star Wars did and make a come back for a second wind 25 years later.
Lucifyre
Dance is OK. I think the key with both that and AFFC is that they are the inbetween books, setting things up for the final two or three books when it all comes together (Kinda like 1/2 blood prince was the weakest of the Harry Potter books).
Now, as for the end being predictable, I dunno. GRRM has a habit of killing of characters who you thought were integral to the plot and going his own direction. To his credit, I think he's stayed essentially true to his original vision and it's gotta be remembered that he has stated publicly:
A-That he knew and knows how its going to end from the moment he started writing and that nothing has changed there
B-That he knows who's going end up on the throne and that "it's the unlikliest person of all."
Now personally, I think it would be the best ending ever if he went full circle and the book ended something like "And Jaime Lannister sat on the throne and waited to see who would come take it?"
SPOILERS AHEAD-YOU ARE NOW WARNED
And if you do think it's predictable, tell me,
Who is gonna be Azhor Azhai?
Who's the Prince that was Promised?
What's up with Varys? Is he really a secret Blackfyre?
Does Littlefinger work for The faceless Men or the Bank of Braavos? And whats his game anyways?
And what's the Maesters game?
At this point, the pawns are mostly gone from the game and the true players are emerging. But what's their motivation?
And those are just the obvious ones to start with.
Now, that said, yeah, I think GRRM has gone for the cash grab and spent waaaay to much time doing SciFi conventions and dicking around and that DwD didn't move nearly fast enough for me-that I thought dany should be headed to Westeros by the end, or at least have solved the Meerenese knot. That he hasn't finished that storyline is bogging down the books. But I think I can see where he's heading so that gives me hope.
But if that cocksmoker dies before finishing, after the WoT fiasco, I might be done with starting series until they are finished.
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