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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GoodKingJayIII" data-source="post: 2313200" data-attributes="member: 13804">Hence, the reason I said a scene should advance character development, among other things <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I love LotR for a number of different reasons (nostalgia not being the least of them).  That doesn't mean I can't identify its faults either.  Reading them now is more difficult, and to be honest, I'll skip filler to move to the parts I love.I'm not saying Martin is a bad author.  I think he's very good, and I imagine I'll read this book eventually (especially since I love AGoT so much).  What I am saying is that there are a certain kind and amount of filler I can tolerate.  As a personal preference, I tend to prefer authors that discuss sex more discreetly and less overtly.  If there are explicit scenes, I judge them based on any other overt action:  does it move plot forward?  Does it advance character development?  Is it interesting?  Can I relate to it?  Obviously not everything in a book is going to move the plot forward, but if I'm disagreeing with the importance of a lot of scenes in a book, I'm probably not enjoying it.But this horse is long dead, and I probably shouldn't have scrounged up the responses to my earliest post.  No more responses from me on this particular topic.  Be happy to continue talking about the book though.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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