04-10-2012, 12:54 PM
I think you are better off NOT reading the books and then watching series on HBO.
While Martin is a talented writer the books always just pissed me off. I don't know how to say anything with out spoilers so stop reading here if you want to be surprised later.
[spoiler]I just don't see the point of bringing up the deathwalkers and then never incorporating them into the story. The problem with Martin's style is if you don't like his characters his stories are pointless. He kills off so many main characters that I find I just don't get invested into his characters.
I want to know what the fuck is going on in the north!
All the lore is basically the fantasy but the real story is just basic machiavelian crap. At best the lore is all made up fantasy from a bunch of horrible people starving for power. At worst he takes the last two books and brings out the fantasy parts of the story. That would really piss me off.
To me Martin is great at creating fantasy but he isn't so good on writing about it. With the show on TV you can skip all of the crap and just get down to the good parts.
Martin is basically a fantasy prick tease. It would be like if Tolkein created this entire world but only wrote about the local politics of 4th age kings.
Vllad[/spoiler]
While Martin is a talented writer the books always just pissed me off. I don't know how to say anything with out spoilers so stop reading here if you want to be surprised later.
[spoiler]I just don't see the point of bringing up the deathwalkers and then never incorporating them into the story. The problem with Martin's style is if you don't like his characters his stories are pointless. He kills off so many main characters that I find I just don't get invested into his characters.
I want to know what the fuck is going on in the north!
All the lore is basically the fantasy but the real story is just basic machiavelian crap. At best the lore is all made up fantasy from a bunch of horrible people starving for power. At worst he takes the last two books and brings out the fantasy parts of the story. That would really piss me off.
To me Martin is great at creating fantasy but he isn't so good on writing about it. With the show on TV you can skip all of the crap and just get down to the good parts.
Martin is basically a fantasy prick tease. It would be like if Tolkein created this entire world but only wrote about the local politics of 4th age kings.
Vllad[/spoiler]