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Title: What A Bore - I Give Up
Review: I started reading Game of Thrones on vacation. Book 1 was a good pot-boiler story - lots of pretentious writing, bodice ripping and gore. The overall plot moves at a very slow pace but there are lots of side stories and episodes t oenjoy along the way. Starting on book 2 we got more of the same.It took me til book three to realize this is not a novel, it is a soap opera on paper. It's just one story after another of screwing, getting screwed and finding new and grisly ways to kill off characters. About a third of a way through book three I gave up. If you want a soap opera with swords and magic, then this book is for you. But if you're looking for a novel with a coherent setting, an actual plot, and characters you actually can give a crap about, then keep looking.
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