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I've just started Song of Ice and Fire, and I'm most of the way through the first book. It's long, which is nice, but highly frustrating at times. The "villains" are mostly brainless, gutless fools
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Sorry for the late reply...
What gutless fools are you talking about? In my opinions all the "villians" are quite real and not-at-all brainless... The special thing about Martin is that there are no "vallians" in the way there are in other books. I don't really hope any house to win the the iron throne... But I am very excited to see the on-going battle.
Martin made very special books and I am truly excited for a long time...
One point though. I do agree that the violence and the sexual scenes are quite.. Disturbing.
Though as far as pedophile aspect comes, in medieval times it was less of a big deal it is today and I wouldn't seperate it from the other scenes of rapes, torture and murder... In fact, I find it quite disturbing that the pedophile scenes (that weren't at all highlighted) is what you notice, there's plenty of other gore in the books.