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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
Sadly, that's the problem for me with George Martin - if I had to go back to familiarise meself, I'd be under the ground before I worked out which episode I'd forgotten, got a grip on, or given up on.
And that's without the silly Book 5 - I couldn't remember an awful lot of the character, story lines and sub-plots, because they were completely new, and you need to pretend you know what he's going on about before you can proceed....... 
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A Song of Ice and Fire is in a special class: extremely complex and diverse story lines with a wealth of characters; together with years between books. Makes for an almost insurmountable series to maintain interest in.
If the books are written so far apart I have to reread them to remember the story, characters and important events, then eventually I'll drop it.
The Foundation Series was another one. After the trilogy was written, decades went by before the next book in the series. Isaac Asimov had to reread his own books before he could continue with the next one!