re: #389 LudwigVanQuixote

I didn’t say Fellowship was a bad book! Far from it! I said that it is the weakest of the three. Much like LOTR, SoIaF needs to come to a boil.

I don’t see how you can compare SoIaF to Tolkien’s work. Lord of the Rings never descended into elaborate descriptions of sexual practices (with a hint of pedophile tendencies), or necrophiliac scenes. Instead he presented us with a meticulously modeled world, with it’s own vivid population, languages, history, gods, geography, etc. Something GRRM fails to deliver…