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Title: Overrated and the author is an egomaniac!
Review: I must admit that I enjoyed reading the first 2 books in this series, but this one just started to drag. The author is full of himself to use "R.R." in his name like Tolkien, but he doesn't come close. He is so concerned with producing 10 lb books that he can't generate the next volume within a decent time frame. It would serve us all right if he croaks before he can finish this overblown series.As a lover of LOTR, my only problem with Tolkien was that he has inspired too many authors that are unable or unwilling to finish a story line within a reasonable number of volumes or pages. Methinks guys like Martin are more concerned with hooking readers into a life-time annuity of income for themselves rather than actually concluding a story. Or perhaps he has created so many interrelated story lines that even he can't figure out how to end it!
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