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Look at the depth of the world that he's created!
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See. Some people dig that sort of thing. To me... that just means lots and lots of filler.
I'm not big on "World-building." I like the author to "World-suggest" or "World-hint" and allow my (the reader's) imagination to do the heavy world-building. Too much brick-by-brick world-building comes across as kind of condescending to me. It's like the author doesn't trust my imagination to come up with a worthy visualization of their creation... so they include everything under the sun (including the kitchen sink) in the hopes of keeping my imagination from "mucking it up" somehow.
So I don't mind if an author builds a complete world from the ground up. But there's just no reason to wedge every. single. minute. detail about it into the books themselves. Save something for the appendices, and the companion volumes. I'm sure the
Complete History of Westeros will need something left to go in it when it's posthumously published.
