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<blockquote data-quote="jasamcarl" data-source="post: 1864554" data-attributes="member: 1251"><p>Hmmm...the worst of perhaps the worst genre of commercial fiction. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Of what fantasy I've read, Martin is the most entertaining. He is complete pop, and his narrative amounts to a written soap, but he is smart enough to know his own limitations as a writer and not pump up the verbeage like most godawful fantasy authers and he is not overly literal, i.e. he doesn't crowd the story with copious world building and a heavy handed narrative. He 'shows, not tells' by following the characters, something that most fantasy hacks never seemed to learn in their creative writing classes. And, unlike Bar, whose post was pretty much spot on, Martin does deserve a tad bit of credit for being able to maintain a very specific type of cynical tone, which, combined with his recent political utterances, do seem to be making a point. He does have an axe to grind, unlike <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=":)" />...the irrelevant, boring escapism of most elf-loving pulp trash. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>As for Dune, read the first two books my freshman year of highschool then quit. Series is generally overrated, though I actually preferred the second one, mostly because I prefer that type of tight conspiracy as oppossed to the broad epic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jasamcarl, post: 1864554, member: 1251"] Hmmm...the worst of perhaps the worst genre of commercial fiction. :) Of what fantasy I've read, Martin is the most entertaining. He is complete pop, and his narrative amounts to a written soap, but he is smart enough to know his own limitations as a writer and not pump up the verbeage like most godawful fantasy authers and he is not overly literal, i.e. he doesn't crowd the story with copious world building and a heavy handed narrative. He 'shows, not tells' by following the characters, something that most fantasy hacks never seemed to learn in their creative writing classes. And, unlike Bar, whose post was pretty much spot on, Martin does deserve a tad bit of credit for being able to maintain a very specific type of cynical tone, which, combined with his recent political utterances, do seem to be making a point. He does have an axe to grind, unlike :)...the irrelevant, boring escapism of most elf-loving pulp trash. :) As for Dune, read the first two books my freshman year of highschool then quit. Series is generally overrated, though I actually preferred the second one, mostly because I prefer that type of tight conspiracy as oppossed to the broad epic. [/QUOTE]
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