This series started out great, then the second book was ok, the third and fourth were pretty bad. This one is middling good. It started out as if it were on fire, then the end totally bit. Once again, characters who are good and honorable and likeable - end up dead. What is Martin's problem? Is he clinically depressed? People have called him the American Tolkien - hah. No way. He doesn't have half the talent. It seems as if he's making this up as he goes along. Everytime he seems to have written himself into a corner, he pulls some rabbit out of his hat and goes off in another silly direction. I may not even read the rest of the series until it's in the Kindle bargain bin. I'm really tired of the endless ways he finds to just drag things out. It snows, so everyone stops. We sail from here to there. Even Tyrion is starting to be a boring character. Unlike the Lord of the Rings, which this can't even hold a remote candle to, I get no sense of history from this. He throws a bunch of names about, events about, how about a LOTR like timeline in the back of the book, rather than those endlessly dull repeats of the houses. Does anyone really not know who Robert Strong is? I'm surprised he even killed of Tywin Lannister, since he seems to hold such love for the evil characters. Now what he does at the wall, and leave us hanging... well, I'm fed up with this crap. It took him six years to write this? I think he has a dart board in his office and he hits it and says "Ok, that'll happen." This started with such promise, and it's going down hill so fast. The sad thing is for at least half the book, it was far better than 3 and 4, the ended just like them. Also, little tidbits like Brienne showing up for two paragraphs, are not fulfilling. Now we have to wait? Where's Bran's little brother? I'm rapidly not giving a damn. I wish Daneyrs would show up with all three dragons and lay waste to all of Westeros so this whole endlessly, needing some serious editing, series would come to an end. Color me unhappy.
This series started out great, then the second book was ok, the third and fourth were pretty bad. This one is middling good. It started out as if it were on fire, then the end totally bit. Once again, characters who are good and honorable and likeable - end up dead. What is Martin's problem? Is he clinically depressed? People have called him the American Tolkien - hah. No way. He doesn't have half the talent. It seems as if he's making this up as he goes along. Everytime he seems to have written himself into a corner, he pulls some rabbit out of his hat and goes off in another silly direction. I may not even read the rest of the series until it's in the Kindle bargain bin. I'm really tired of the endless ways he finds to just drag things out. It snows, so everyone stops. We sail from here to there. Even Tyrion is starting to be a boring character. Unlike the Lord of the Rings, which this can't even hold a remote candle to, I get no sense of history from this. He throws a bunch of names about, events about, how about a LOTR like timeline in the back of the book, rather than those endlessly dull repeats of the houses. Does anyone really not know who Robert Strong is? I'm surprised he even killed of Tywin Lannister, since he seems to hold such love for the evil characters. Now what he does at the wall, and leave us hanging... well, I'm fed up with this crap. It took him six years to write this? I think he has a dart board in his office and he hits it and says "Ok, that'll happen. " This started with such promise, and it's going down hill so fast. The sad thing is for at least half the book, it was far better than 3 and 4, the ended just like them. Also, little tidbits like Brienne showing up for two paragraphs, are not fulfilling. Now we have to wait? Where's Bran's little brother? I'm rapidly not giving a damn. I wish Daneyrs would show up with all three dragons and lay waste to all of Westeros so this whole endlessly, needing some serious editing, series would come to an end. Color me unhappy.