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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DethStryke" data-source="post: 3540355" data-attributes="member: 1309">Bleh, I would hardly consider it geek cred related. I hate the LotR books. That is well worse on the "geek cred" scale.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> The point of the comparison is that GoT is a highly in-depth, muli-tiered writing style. I think this SH is pleasantly deep, but there are usually not much more than 2-3 plot threads at any time which are strung more-or-less in a linear fashion. GoT is a bazillion threads which are woven together randomly in every direction into what ends up looking like a huge ball of twine. <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=":)" /> Good/Bad considerations never factor into this in my mind - it's just a totally different style technically speaking.As with movies: you don't watch a documentary-style super drama when you're in the mood for an action flick. Perhaps an even better way of putting it: If I wanted to laugh, I would not watch Shindler's List or Children of Men. You have to match the style and content with what you're interested in watching (reading).Hence why I have never said anything. I've noticed because I occasionally do editing and a fair bit of writing, but I have yet to not be able to figure out what you meant after a quick pass or two.Smarty-pants.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I'm keeping spoiler-free for Krafus, but if I were in reaching distance you'd get a No. 9 boot to the tail for that one.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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