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by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/22/2011, 10:19pm PDT

WITTGENSTEIN wrote:

Everything else is just insufferable long-winded horseshit and introducing more and more characters that you can't even begin to give a fuck about. Meanwhile he's procrastinated so long on it that we all know how it's going to end. Jon Snow is Robert Baratheon's bastard son and he's going to wind up marrying Daenerys once she (FINALLY) crosses the sea, putting an end to the Lannisters while reuniting Westeros underneath the two of them. I'm fucking stunned.

Arya is so annoying I began to skip the parts involving her. Same with the crippled Stark. I put down book 2 about halfway through after he insisted on writing like 10-15 pages of Greyjoy fondling a trollop. That fat bastard never fails to mention if a character is stark naked and his penis is flopping around. If the thing was like 150 pages shorter and focused more on killing and scheming than midgets fondling hookers I would have read it cover to cover.

The TV show actually cast some nice looking people and seems to be focused on the nerd-lure of cheap cinemax sex though, so it may wind up a better series than book!

It seems like Snow and Daenerys are gonna get together, sure, but if I understand things right, she's gonna shit out dragons or something? I got to the middle of the second book before my awful attention span made me put the book down. But even if that's where it's going, the pleasure is supposed to be in the telling, right?

Here's why I think GRRM is really talented: Tyrion is written so differently from every other character in the book, it seems like the work of a separate man. It's uncanny. Almost creepy. He's got one voice for everything else going on in his books, which is fine, typical fantasy, and then hits you with a chapter that comes off like it was sub-contracted to a separate person altogether. I find that aspect of his work fascinating.

I'm not explaining it well. It sounds like I am saying the Tyrion parts are awesome, or better, or whatnot. I'm not saying they are, I'm not saying they aren't. But it's the closest thing I've seen in a character-driven work to the author displaying his own multiple personalities and giving one a voice.

ICJ

most reviewers were sent the first six episodes by jeep 04/22/2011, 5:21pm PDT NEW

The parts with Jon Snow and Daenerys are the only interesting ones by WITTGENSTEIN 04/22/2011, 6:42pm PDT NEW

Possible spoilers? by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/22/2011, 10:19pm PDT NEW

Unrelated to GoT, but if you enjoy authors who can write in different voices by Lizard_King 04/24/2011, 3:50pm PDT NEW