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If I had followed this, I never would've finished the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series (game of thrones). I guess technically I may never FINISH since he hasn't
by tw04 8y ago
If I had followed this, I never would've finished the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series (game of thrones). I guess technically I may never FINISH since he hasn't written all the books yet.
It is a VERY painful start. And if you read interviews with Martin, he admits he had no idea where hew as going with the story until about halfway through the first book.
- munificent 8y agoDevil's advocate: If you hadn't, perhaps you would have found other even better books to read during that time.
- sizzzzlerz 8y agoI eagerly read the first 3 books without ever considering abandoning any of them and I subscribe to the yank-the-bandage approach to dropping books if not interesting within 20 pages or, towards the end, abandoning if I find myself skimming or skipping pages. With these, it never happened. When I read the 4th book, however, A Dance with Dragons, I kept reading far longer than I would any other book, hoping that it would get better and start getting somewhere. It never did. It was a slow motion train wreck. Finally, I threw in the towel and dropped it with no desire to ever go back and finish it or the 5th book. It did strengthen my resolve to drop bad books early even if prior books by the author were great reads.