The first book is excellent. By book three, it has the bones of a very good series. Then it drops off pretty quickly.
GRRM's surrounding fiction - The Tales of Dunk and Egg, the Targaryen novellas, some of the more long-winded histoigraphy - all make for excellent story telling and world building.
But without a proper climax or conclusion, it's just going to leave a terrible taste in your mouth. And the TV Series slap-dash ending is at least as bad, if not worse, than the never-released final novels. It did do a good job of redux-ing the Book 4/5 content to make the story more palpable and coherent, though.
The mutiny happens and it's presented as morally grey, you could see yourself acting as the mutineers did in that situation. In the show they add a ridiculous cartoon character drinking out of the lord commander's skull because they're hack writers. Anyway even ignoring that the jig was up by S5 and the sand snakes, well before S7
The first book is excellent. By book three, it has the bones of a very good series. Then it drops off pretty quickly.
GRRM's surrounding fiction - The Tales of Dunk and Egg, the Targaryen novellas, some of the more long-winded histoigraphy - all make for excellent story telling and world building.
But without a proper climax or conclusion, it's just going to leave a terrible taste in your mouth. And the TV Series slap-dash ending is at least as bad, if not worse, than the never-released final novels. It did do a good job of redux-ing the Book 4/5 content to make the story more palpable and coherent, though.
gave up midway through book four because he kept opening up new plotlines without ever resolving any of the dozens he had going
Book 5 is even worse.
Book 5 is my fav :(
It has its moments, but waiting six years for a novel that takes the story nowhere is annoying af.
Seasons 7-8 never happened.
game of thrones jumped the shark in season four with karl fooking tanner
Never saw s1-s5, the muttin happens in the books, but not the way I read from wikiGoT
The mutiny happens and it's presented as morally grey, you could see yourself acting as the mutineers did in that situation. In the show they add a ridiculous cartoon character drinking out of the lord commander's skull because they're hack writers. Anyway even ignoring that the jig was up by S5 and the sand snakes, well before S7
Ah yes, a very good cup option, a skull
Still pissed I didn't get to do this to Batista.
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