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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.  |
+1 (I would give you some karma for this, but it won't let me >.<)
I so agree! It's getting to be just a little tiring. Plus the fact that a lot of these serial writers should never try their hand at anything longer than a standalone. And I know someone will get all butt hurt over this but...The Kingkiller Series??!?! Why? Why are they door-stoppers? Where is the freaking
story?? I gave up on
The Name of the Wind about 2/3 of the way through as Kovth when I realized that nothing was ever going to happen and Kovth was going to continue to be a silly@ss while proclaiming his greatness.
And just when I was about to pick it up again...I learned that nothing happened in book 2.
I'm going back to my habit of not reading a series until the entire thing is done. If it gets cancelled mid-series due to lack of sales...well, I didn't miss out on anything.