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Old 03-03-2011, 05:13 PM   #10
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So I just enjoy the moment now. I wouldn't trade my time reading the first 4 for anything. I even started Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series recently.
The difference being that Cornwell gives you relatively stand-alone books that are tied together with an over-arching plotline in his Saxon series... whereas Martin is writing one big story that spans seven books.

I'm not bashing Martin or any other author that writes this way. It's just that I don't love The Seemingly Never-Ending Series as much as I did when I first read A Game of Thrones. It's been long enough ago that I've changed. I've fallen in love with Speculative Fiction stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end... all between two "covers." Unfortunately, truly stand-alone stories seem to be the red-headed step-children of the fantasy genre.
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