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ANd speaking of GRRM...I tried twice to read that series...and twice I ended up giving the book(s) away. It was so...gory and gross and depressing and freaking SAD that I was just...
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My dislike for GRRM has nothing to do with "grittyness," despair or shades of gray. It's his refusal to "get to the frickin' point already!" that has caused me to wash my hands of him.
I find the trend of milking genre series' into far more books than they have story for (even by the most lenient of standards) to be vastly more damaging than a little grit and moral ambiguity could ever
dream of being.
Someone point me to the new scifi project/consortium that has the one rule of; "No sequels, no prequels, no reusing of worlds/characters." Intended to inspire genre authors to create
stories instead of franchises.
That, I could throw my support behind.
