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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1100525" data-attributes="member: 8447">In many ways I think Martin's major angle is to make most of the characters and families as objectionable as possible so that he appears to be a "different author".In then end, I have gotten bored with his attempts.But then again, since he is more or less ripping off the to's and fro's of the Wars of the Roses (and then adding in some apologetic magic), I suppose it is appropriate for all involved to be nasty, self-involved, and generally unlikeable.Then he can bring in his not-quite-Tudors at the end who will re-write all of history and be none too loveable themselves...I gave up reading after the second book; I'd be as likely to be dragged back to these books as to the Thomas Covenant novels.**sigh**I love what passes for literature sometimes...</blockquote>