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Title: cheap trickery
Review: Maybe I'd have given this two stars if I hadn't seen so many reviews comparing it favourably to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. A Song of Ice and Fire started out well, but this last instalment seems to be going nowhere except downhill. Martin knows all the tricks, but I wonder what else he knows. This doesn't come anywhere near Tolkien - it's the conjurer's cheap tricks against the litterally wonderful magic of the wizard.I'm surprised so many people give it five stars, but I guess every book gets the readers it deserves.
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