Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8308160" data-attributes="member: 18">He's not a great prose writer. Or character writer (motivations tend towards the implausible and he himself admitted that he feels like too many times the hand of the author - him - has changed what a character might do away from what they'd really do). Or dialogue writer (with most of his characters, if you just had the dialogue, you could barely tell the characters apart).What is confusing is sometimes he suddenly gets better, or worse. And I had no idea why until I found out he wrote most of his books in basic form 10+ years ago (maybe more 15 years ago now), and then they've been released in a different order to which he came up with them, and he's re-written a lot of them before release. So they're kind of all over the place quality-wise. You might seem improvement, but there's often a whole lot of turgid nonsense that an author who is now as experienced as him should have cut, but he doesn't because he already basically laid out some entire giant series of books and I think he wants to avoid getting into a GRRM situation where he changes too much and then gets stuck.Anyway the end effect is that whilst he's great at devising sort of "easy to imagine, easy to mentally game" magic systems, and often quite good at describing action scenes, he absolutely definitely writes like he's describing a TV show/movie, as you say. You're right to say some other authors do it, but I think he's particularly obvious in doing it.</blockquote>

Verification