I particularly enjoy that HBO decided that A Song of Ice and Fire is clearly too stupidly embarrassing a title and have used the much punchier "Game of Thrones" instead.
I read those books a while ago, you know, when only three or four of them were out. That is, I read some three or four thousand pages, in which damn-all happened and from which I remember three things.
1. Ned Stark died for no goddamn reason, despite being literally the only likable character.
2. Jaime grew a soul, but to make up for it he lost his hand.
3. Jon Snow was all Luke Skywalker all over the place, whining up hill and down dale, except some girl probably not his sister has actually gotten him into bed.
Oh, no, I remember another thing: they completely sucked. Everyone was an ass, and went about scheming to no useful end except a mounting, unrelenting squalid misery, almost everyone died except the people you disliked the most, there were no heroes at all, and George R. R. Martin never took ten words to say anything when he could take two hundred.
It is a dubious distinction for a series when no one can be bothered to read it absent the urging of Lena Headey's breasts.
Edited: And, my God, the asinine spelling.
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OK, but why do you think only the good should win? I think it just became boring that only the good win.
In addition, we can not predict the ending.
I just finished the second one, and YES. Also: writing a series does not release you from the obligation of writing a book with a beginning, middle, and end, and (gasp) some kind of plot arc. You can't just STOP and say "Oh, well, the story will pick up in the next book."
I liked that there were no particular heroes and a lot of shitty characters lived. It made it less predictable, and gave you the incentive to continue reading. Plus Ned was such a boring character...and he literally put his honor before his family for a little while...ego+boring=shitty character. I loved that he died since it made the story less about one house, and more about the plot itself...so it was at least not as cliche as many, MANY other fantasy novels. The only shitty parts were the ones involving Daenerys...since it was basically just soft-core erotica and constant, consecutive failures on her part.
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