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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.  |
As much as I like (er, okay, love) GRRM's ASoIaF series, you make a great point. I thought after SK's Dark Tower I had learned my lesson re: being milked. But no. And when "The Wind Through the Keyhole" gets released... Let's just say there is wind blowing through the huge hole in my better judgement as well.
For those of you with the fortitude of character to resist this,
. I'm made of weaker stuff.
Is it me, but if SF is 90% pessimistic, isn't Fantasy just the opposite? Like Belfaborac said how many
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clean-cut, heroic, upstanding, nausea-inducing protagonists
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have we had down the years compared to the other side of the coin. I'm glad that we seem to have more of a choice these days.
if you like the "hopeful" Fantasy. I do too (if its well written, recommendations welcome), just not all the time. Different strokes and all that...
