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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 1058507" data-attributes="member: 2477">A tangent: I always liked Battletech novels, but Stackpole's "good guy/badguy" writing got tiresome. But the real interest killer was a character called Katherine Steiner-Davion. No matter what occured, she got away with it. No matter how STUPID the plot's she hatched, she kept winning.I wasn't rooting for a villains defeat. I was hoping the plotline went away as tedious and irritating.So, back to Martin:I read the first book, then bought the other two (a couple months ago) so read them all at once.After a while, I really just skipped over most of the stuff in the Catelyn chapters. They didn't endear the character to me, they irritated me on a level of "why do thse stupid things keep happening in her chapters".It didn't help that they chose to raise her.The Frey's betrayel just didn't feel like good plot to me. It was just blah.I REALLY wanted the wolf to survive. The Red Wedding could have been better had we later heard the Frey's were afraid of leaving because a great wolf was stalking them.I liked Arya. She's the only character I liked. (by the end)A lot of the stuff in the novels started to feel like filler. I don't really want to read the next novel, since I'd much rather have Arya's training and Dany's ruling told in flashback. I fear it will be tedious.Overall, I liked the books, and they served their purpose. They were entertainment during reading. I'm just not sure I'll bother with the rest.(least of all because I hate waiting years between books.)</blockquote>

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