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Ned was right, winter is coming.

by snorkel 15y ago

Tichy 15y ago
Is the movie out yet? I am still not sure if I want to continue reading the series. It was so depressing.
- thaumaturgy 15y ago
  I've been totally waiting with baited breath to launch this rant at some poor unsuspecting sap. So, hi Tichy! Man, I really really wanted to love that whole book series. The characterization was fantastic, the settings were detailed and rich, the story telling was great ... But, sometime part-way through A Feast For Crows, I just couldn't stand reading it any more. The violence seemed too unnecessary; the destruction of characters that had been so carefully built had started to turn into an expectation -- "I wonder how he's going to later make this interesting new character suffer? Will he maim them? Murder them? Destroy them psychologically?" For me, in that volume, it somehow went from being a great story with difficult events to a really ugly story that just wasn't worth reading anymore. I no longer cared about the characters because, y'know, they were gonna die anyway. Or worse. Now I'm starting to hear from people who are watching the HBO series but who never read the books, and they're talking about how they really love this character or that character, and every time inside I get this massive troll face on and think, "Heh ... just you wait and see what happens to that one." I sold my copy of the set to a used bookstore. I hear there's another one out now, but I have very little desire, or curiosity, towards it.
  - asciimo 15y ago
    Ha. The first thing I thought when I read that article was "winter is coming" so I immediately searched for that string in the comments. I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm a few pages from the end of A Game of Thrones and I have been shocked by some of the character abuse you're talking about. Right now, it's kind of exciting, but I can definitely see it getting tiresome if it becomes gratuitous. Thanks for the warning--I won't feel guilty if I abandon the series midway through!
  - Tichy 15y ago
    I only read the first book, but as I said, I found it too depressing. It builds great atmosphere, but then everything just goes down the drain.

Ned was right, winter is coming.

by snorkel 15y ago

Ned was right, winter is coming.

Tichy 15y ago

Is the movie out yet? I am still not sure if I want to continue reading the series. It was so depressing.

thaumaturgy 15y ago
I've been totally waiting with baited breath to launch this rant at some poor unsuspecting sap. So, hi Tichy! Man, I really really wanted to love that whole book series. The characterization was fantastic, the settings were detailed and rich, the story telling was great ... But, sometime part-way through A Feast For Crows, I just couldn't stand reading it any more. The violence seemed too unnecessary; the destruction of characters that had been so carefully built had started to turn into an expectation -- "I wonder how he's going to later make this interesting new character suffer? Will he maim them? Murder them? Destroy them psychologically?" For me, in that volume, it somehow went from being a great story with difficult events to a really ugly story that just wasn't worth reading anymore. I no longer cared about the characters because, y'know, they were gonna die anyway. Or worse. Now I'm starting to hear from people who are watching the HBO series but who never read the books, and they're talking about how they really love this character or that character, and every time inside I get this massive troll face on and think, "Heh ... just you wait and see what happens to that one." I sold my copy of the set to a used bookstore. I hear there's another one out now, but I have very little desire, or curiosity, towards it.
- asciimo 15y ago
  Ha. The first thing I thought when I read that article was "winter is coming" so I immediately searched for that string in the comments. I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm a few pages from the end of A Game of Thrones and I have been shocked by some of the character abuse you're talking about. Right now, it's kind of exciting, but I can definitely see it getting tiresome if it becomes gratuitous. Thanks for the warning--I won't feel guilty if I abandon the series midway through!
- Tichy 15y ago
  I only read the first book, but as I said, I found it too depressing. It builds great atmosphere, but then everything just goes down the drain.