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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It is a stupid question to begin with, and it was classy from George to give a straightforward answer, and maybe it would have been more classy to say that Aragorn would have won.

But I don’t understand this antipathy towards George, he wrote some great groundbreaking fantasy novels just as Tolkien, and I’m happy I was able to enjoy both.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He wrote an unfinished soap opera in book form.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

unfinished soap opera

Soap operas are designed to not finish. It was doomed from the start.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I tried to read A Game Of Thrones and it was so boring. It didn't stay with one character long enough for me to get invested in their story. Too many characters, and not enough writing skill to pull that number off.

I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think George should have written a few simpler novels to practice good writing before he went and did a big project like this.

Guy's been writing professionally since 1970; his first full length novel was punished in 1976; he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

Him having no experience writing shorter works is extremely evidently not the problem.

Him not having written something on the scale of A Song of Ice and Fire before, and writing himself into a gordian knot of plotlines and characters his aged brain might not be able to untangle, on the other hand, might.

Or he simply lost interest and would rather write about gridiron in his not a blog. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, well then I guess he's just not very good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

he had been awarded two Hugo awards, six Locus awards, two Nebula awards, a Bram Stoker award, a World Fantasy award, and a couple Emmys before he even published A Game of Thrones.

Oh, well then I guess he's just not very good

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I read the first book back in the 00s. This was just before everyone was making these epic, high production TV series. Even so, my first thought was, this would do well as an HBO/Showtime/cable series. My second thought was, I'm not going to bother reading any of the other books. Too many characters that I not only didn't like, but could keep track of. Having a different chapter for each character, and jumping back and forth, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Martin is a troll, so he gets treated like a troll. It's as simple as that.