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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 124349" data-attributes="member: 69">Having read the Ice & Fire books, I thought myself safe. Arrgh.Not that I really care... I've tried several times to push myself through the Dragonlance books. I'm continually assaulted by friends who can't believe I haven't read them, but I haven't been hooked by the series. SPOILER-ESQUE STUFF BELOWIce & Fire hooked me in the first page. I loved the writing style. I loved the characters. Though I have problems with the horrors of war and crime as they're graphically depicted, I realize it's just GRR's way of slapping me across the face and pointing out that it's not epic fantasy that I'm used to. The character that deserves to die may just win that fight with the good guy... Gregor winning that duel was horrible, unexpected, and tickled my enjoyment of the series with a feather. The Red Wedding was unbelievable. It took me two more chapters after that to accept that it had really happened, and two major characters were dead. It was like a bucket of icy water being dumped on you in your bed, and it was refreshing to be shocked like that. That's just me, though. I still haven't found a good book series to read since then. I keep looking for Destiny or Rhapsody or whichever it was I had recommended to me, but my store doesn't carry it. I'm reading GRR's Wild Cards I book and am unimpressed. I'm pushing myself to the end, but probably won't buy the next book.</blockquote>