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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7493013" data-attributes="member: 6855204">Martin will never finish his books.  They have become a point of shame for him, and he has a mental block keeping him from going back to it, because every time he thinks about it, his guilt over not finishing them overwhelms him.  And he never wanted to do the books in the first place.  He wanted to make a TV series with all the detail and such of a book series.  Which he did.  So why finish the book if that was his goal all along?  Because of this, Martin will not win many fans.  People love his books, but he refuses to finish what he's started.  If he ever does, that may change as people forget the decade long hiatus between his books . But until then, I don't expect him to win any contests.Stephen King is an amazing author, and has literally defined a genre.  I've read a number of his works, and he really is great.  But he's his own thing.  He doesn't really write like other authors.  And many of his stories just put people off.  Not to mention both of these people have weird issues with sex and such.  Martin reads like a dirty old man getting his jollies off, and King wrote a freaking, detailed orgy with 12 year olds. All of King's books have some weird sexual overtones, from necrophilia to pedophilia to any other kind of -philia you can think of.  Not that sex is necessarily out of place in a book, but it says a lot about the author, and in reality, it's just not necessary.  I've read almost all of Brandon Sanderson's books, and they are very clean, while at the same time being riveting and fantastic.  Not every reader wants to fill their head with smut.</blockquote>

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