Finally worked my way through Martin's third in his fantasy
saga. It weighed in at over 1100 pages in the mass market
paperback. I've read similar fantasy sagas by Goodkind and
Jordan and they both started sagging by the third offering.
This is just a random extraneous thought, but I think one of
the problems with the progression of series is that the
idiosyncrasies of the authors begin to stick out like a sore
thumb.
A STORM OF SWORDS is a beautiful piece, a powerful story with
great characters. The material is dark, violent, fast-paced
and satisfyingly unpredictable. Last I read of Jordan's
series, six or seven thousand pages in, he was continuing to
nurture the same half dozen characters that the series
started with. No matter how many perils the protagonists
face, they always make it through. Contrived. Not so with
Martin. Major characters die. Anything can happen.
Sad that I'll probably have to wait three years before the
next comes out in mass market paperback. I need to dig around
for some of Martin's earlier stuff that Terrill
recommended.
Without another Martin dungeons and dragons novel to read, I
started a dungeons sans dragons novel PILLARS OF THE EARTH by
Follett. I've heard a lot of good things about this
book.
miker
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