whaaaaaat.

[lauralh]

ok that's it. I am not reading any more GRRM. I can't take the bastard anymore.

Comments

[patrick.livejournal.com]

Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better in this series.

[infinite-hiatus.livejournal.com]

you finished all four? I loved the first three. how can you be pissed? remember book 4 is only really half of book 4. it was too long to publish in one volume.

[patrick.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing she just finished Clash of Kings.

[infinite-hiatus.livejournal.com]

but that one was good! she's obviously ill.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

no, i just don't like people dying

[heraclitus.livejournal.com]

It's a nice change though, from the typical fantasy deus ex machina bullshit.

Hang on for Bigger Disappointments

[gutbloom.livejournal.com]

If you just finished the first book you ain't seen nothing yet in the dying department. Wait till you follow a character for 2000 pages only to have them whacked inside a paragraph.

where "this" means "your pain"

[perich.livejournal.com]

Not to laugh at your pain, but I'm going to laugh at this all day.

(And seriously - keep reading)

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

diablo ex machina?

Re: Hang on for Bigger Disappointments

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

2nd.

Re: where "this" means "your pain"

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

seriously, no.

Re: where "this" means "your pain"

[infinite-hiatus.livejournal.com]

I can remember who dies in the 1st and 3rd books, but I can't remember who dies in the 2nd.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well it's not so much that people die, as there's a big fakeout over the two kids for absolutely no reason that I could discern. and I totally almost cried before I realized it was a fakeout, but then I was like "UH WHAT? HUH?" because I could see no logic behind the decision.

[infinite-hiatus.livejournal.com]

I think Theon pretended to kill them to end resistance at Winterfell. If they believed their lords were dead, then there was less reason for them to fight back. Also, for pride I don't think he wanted to come back empty handed from the hunt.

[katyakoshka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Unrelenting miseryitis. Character death fatigue. I understand, really. One shouldn't have to slog through 2-3 books of misery to finally see something good, or put up with WTF?!? plot devices ad nauseam.

When I tried to read the third book, I found I cared so little about most of the characters that I ended up skipping 50-100 pp. at a time. Then, I gave up.

It really doesn't help that the series is unfinished. There's v. little promise of payoff without that completion.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

honestly the only reason I started the second book was because I figured I must have missed the bus. But no, that bus is one I was on, and full of assholes.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

[16:49] lauralbaby: so i think you would enjoy the george rr martin books a lot more than i do
[16:49] anote2self: oh ya?
[16:49] lauralbaby: he is too mean to his characters for me
[16:50] anote2self: haha
[16:50] lauralbaby: and most of the characters are jerks
[16:50] lauralbaby: but he's mean to all of them
[16:50] anote2self: sweet

[perich.livejournal.com]

True.