re: #339 yasharki

I was hoping I can find someone to criticize it with! It’s a very, very well written saga, so much so that I’m having a hard time finding someone to talk about it without having to swipe drool off my face…

I think it is the best written fantasy series in existence. It is as if Tolkien had grown up.

It is very clear that Martin’s original concept was to base a series on the Wars of the Roses. The name Lannister is a sort of dead giveaway.

It is also abundantly clear that something magical happened in the course of his writing. He managed to breathe such life into his characters, endow them with so much depth and personality, that they seem to have taken on a life of their own beyond the original scope of the author.

If you couple that with a number of intricate plots that all interweave seamlessly and some wonderful twists, that are of the brilliant rather than the stupid variety, it is all in all the best series of its kind.