Title: Sad, cardboard, derivative and trite
Product review: I'd read a few of Martin's short stories. He was hit and miss, but was interesting enough that I decided to try this famous series. What a mistake that turned out to be.I struggled to finish the book. The characters are pure cardboard and could be taken from a junior high school kid's first concept of what good and evil should be. There was no surprise in any of their actions, the plotting was plodding and standard, and it just wasn't interesting.Ok, no quite uninteresting. The two stories of Jon Snow and Dany, with the Wall and the mongol clones were passably interesting, which is what kept the book from being completely useless.
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