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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Avarice" data-source="post: 620810" data-attributes="member: 1311">Yeah, I love them, but...I can certainly understand why some people wouldn't like the series.  Those who want to escape into a setting where good and evil are obvious and clearly defined should probably look elsewhere.  Aside from the Others, there are no clearly defined 'bad guys' (though I'm certainly not overly fond of the Lannisters).  The characters in this series are all very human, with very believable ambitions, virtues, and frailties.  What makes it all the more amazing to me is that Martin is slowly managing to write a very epic tale with these (for the most part) un-epic characters.And as for the eventual end-of-series book count, my bet is on seven.  As others have said, A Feast For Crows wasn't supposed to be its own book, but only a series of flashbacks in the fourth book of what was then going to be a six part series.  At any rate, I'm not too worried about him pulling a Jordan; for one thing, Martin has never met a character he can't kill.  Dead characters fill no pages.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> For another, the points of view through which we see his world are very few compared to WoT.  Martin doesn't want us to see everything thats going on in ASoIaF, and I think he'd be quite happy if he left us scratching our heads about some of the details when the series ends.edit:  Wow what a pic, btw.  You'd think he could have come up with something a little more flattering to put on his own website, eh Doctor M? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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