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AtheistPreacher said:
Incidentally, this is exactly what happened with Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. They started going downhill after book five or so, just getting slower and slower until they were just a huge snooze. And then he died before he could finish. Brandon Sanderson had to ghostwrite the last books. And again, I haven't read them, but friends who have tell me that Sanderson's books were way better than Jordan's recent plodding ones.

Anyway, this is really starting to seem like deja vu. The only real difference between the two situations is that Martin is a better writer than Jordan ever was.

EDIT: Gah, I made this post and then realized that fallenchicken had said much the same thing already. :-P
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I actually love this series. Sanderson used detailed notes, and in some cases whole pages, that Jordan had already written.

I am actually re reading the series now for the third time. On book 3. I find books 8-10 to be slow but I love the scale and epic feel from the series.
 
Maybe 50 pages in to book 4 now and I can already see what others have meant. It feels different from the first 3. The scenes are choppier, the writing is more dense, the dialogue far more wooden than the first 3 books. And he isn't getting as much out of his description as he was before. It really seems like he is distracted. I'm liking it alright but there is a marked difference.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Maybe 50 pages in to book 4 now and I can already see what others have meant. It feels different from the first 3. The scenes are choppier, the writing is more dense, the dialogue far more wooden than the first 3 books. And he isn't getting as much out of his description as he was before. It really seems like he is distracted. I'm liking it alright but there is a marked difference.
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I kind of want to read the books over again. I know books 4 and 5 weren't as fun to read but they do have some good things going on in them and some interesting set-ups for what might be coming.

I also like the way GRRM paints the post war Westeros, especially visiting a few of the same places from before the war, during the war and after the war. And all that as it is clear that "winter is coming" and they've destroyed much of what they would normally be saving to get through it.

My recollection of what's in book four vs five is pretty hazy, and I'm not sure it matters much as the timelines are parallel.

I was just really looking forward to getting my hands on book six and in late 2014 it was soundling like we'd be getting book six this year and now there's NO chance that's going to happen. Pretty disappointing.
 
is subscribing to HBO the only way to watch season 5? someone told me you can buy them on itunes but I remember looking when season 4 was going and not being able to find them.
 
dong2ha said:
cool. I am so sick of book reading spoiler mother ****ers on youtube. **** them all
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lol I think they're funny. They start like "What a cool scene. Absolutely love it" then suddenly enter "oh by the way Jon Snow wil die at the end of the season" (not a spoiler just an example)
 
ONE LOVE said:
Cos we'll be discussing every minute detail of the first episode. It should be EPIC. It has to be.
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I hope it satisfies enough and I believe it will, it usually did. But do not forget the golden rule about watching a scenery. The correlation between expectations and satisfaction. Don't overthink. Just enjoy this awesome TV show and character oriented stories.
 
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