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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 597339" data-attributes="member: 168">First to answer the original question: I would suggest sticking with what you like - Some decent suggestions abound. I would not recommend GRRM to you. I don't think you will grok.I like GRRM and RJ for different reasons and they tell different stories. I am getting to where I enjoy the rants from people about the series. I look at WoT like I look at Babylon5 - if it lasts 30 years, I will be happy. I look forward to reading book 20 [if there is a book 20]. I do find it funny that you would mention that how easy it is to write from a woman's perspective. I can't even figure out why my own wife behaves the way she does, much less some of the more cryptic women I have met. Don't even get me started on my daughter. I think you are making light of something that you do not understand well - psychological, physiological, social, needs strata, hierarchy. Go out and read an issue of Cosmo, women are not just like men but with *****.Having said that, GRRM rocks on toast. His characters are much more ambigious than RJ ~ but that is as much a product of the stories being told as the writer. The charcters in WoT would not survive one year in GRRMs Westeros, but the characters from Westeros would not be able to survive in WoT either [if they did it would be as Darkfriends]. Apples to Apples, not Oranges to Apples.</blockquote>