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Title: Filler, Filler and More Filler!
Review: I used to be a rabid RJ fan ... read all the books many times over, made notes, cross checked clues, participated in e-mail discussion groups, etc, etc. Like everyone else, I have been increasingly disappointed with the last few books, but I have to say that this book was shockingly bad ... the book concludes about a quarter-inch farther than where the last book left off.We are subjected to rehearing every characters foibles as if we had not read the previous books (at book 10 I don't think the author should assume that the reader has not read the previous books). More importantly, I get increasingly frustrated that the "good guys/gals" cannot seem to add 2+2 and come up with 4... I know they can't be perfect (or we would have no story), but do they always have to be so clueless?As many others have observed, George R.R. Martin's "song of fire and ice" series is much better at keeping the pace going and keeping the characters interesting.
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