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Re: A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones Spoiler-Filled Discussion
TheLobes wrote:
Do you guys consider those books to be 'great novels' or think they are well written?
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They're very good reads, and go quite quickly for their size. Even the weakest of them is the sort of novel you can find yourself plunging through over a dozen chapters in an afternoon.
As literature they have a few standard fantasy ticks - Martin must dutifully spend a great deal of time explaining heraldry, or what so-and-so is eating - and the strength of their plotting loosens as the series progresses, but it's the best non-Pratchett fantasy I've read in a long time.
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