I haven't read them in about a decade, so I could possibly have the same opinion now. I remember being weirded out by their ages and everything then. I thought the plotting was pretty good and overall thought put into it. But that all unraveled following the third entry.
Don't have any problem with people not liking them, though! The fandom around the books can be a bit insufferable.
You're right that the plotting was good and it had that sense of a rich and deeply considered world, which kept me with it, I really respect GRR as a worldbuilder (weird old pervert element aside), but I just mean the prose, it starts off pretty poor and slowly gets better but never becomes really good
Respectfully disagree, I think the first one is outright bad and they climb to being just mediocre as they proceed
I haven't read them in about a decade, so I could possibly have the same opinion now. I remember being weirded out by their ages and everything then. I thought the plotting was pretty good and overall thought put into it. But that all unraveled following the third entry.
Don't have any problem with people not liking them, though! The fandom around the books can be a bit insufferable.
You're right that the plotting was good and it had that sense of a rich and deeply considered world, which kept me with it, I really respect GRR as a worldbuilder (weird old pervert element aside), but I just mean the prose, it starts off pretty poor and slowly gets better but never becomes really good
Oh yeah. No disagreements about the prose at all! Definitely one of the weaker aspects of his writing.