About halfway thru this thing and story focuses on Tyrion Lannister. Not much else. The whole series is losing steam for me, and has become more of guilty pleasure with all of the  plotting, scheming and TALKING! Toooooo much like a midevil soap opera. Very little action and plot progression with a final conclusion/confrontation in site. Hopefully HBO won't make the same mistake with their interpretation. Still like the premise and characters, but my interest is waning. I'm just along for the ride now on autopilot. No longer salivating for the next chapter. I think this book could have been summarized into four to six chapters. But like I said earlier: halfway thru. Mr. Martin sometimes has that trick with making his endings shocking, but satisfying cliff hangers.
About halfway thru this thing and story focuses on Tyrion Lannister. Not much else. The whole series is losing steam for me, and has become more of guilty pleasure with all of the  plotting, scheming and TALKING! Toooooo much like a midevil soap opera. Very little action and plot progression with a final conclusion/confrontation in site. Hopefully HBO won't make the same mistake with their interpretation. Still like the premise and characters, but my interest is waning. I'm just along for the ride now on autopilot. No longer salivating for the next chapter. I think this book could have been summarized into four to six chapters. But like I said earlier: halfway thru. Mr. Martin sometimes has that trick with making his endings shocking, but satisfying cliff hangers.