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  Falinor > November 13th, 2004, 10:54 PM

  I just picked up "A game of thrones". I've neve read anything by this author before and I have to say I'm blown away! WOW! Anyone else have any thoughts on this author?

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  Dallandra > November 15th, 2004, 07:53 AM

  I read his books, the ones that have been published, about a year ago. I loved all of them! He's definitely one of my favourite authors. Even though the books have a lot of important characters, which can be quite confusing sometimes, the characters are very well described.
  
  I wish he could finish his next book already!!! I want to know what's gonna happen to all of my favourite characters!

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  Mike of Quantum Muse > November 19th, 2004, 07:23 PM

  Quote:Originally posted by Dallandra
  
  
  I want to know what's gonna happen to all of my favourite characters!

  
  
  Awful things.
  
  Be assured, awful things.
  
  Martin has got to be in a class by hiumself for killing off characters you expect to be important down the road.
  
  And, generally, the ones who get killed are the ones who get off easy.
  
  But, for a very dark story, it's well done.

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  Falinor > November 19th, 2004, 10:03 PM

  I have to agree even though I'm only 100 pages into the second book! I've never read this author before but he does seem to use up "important" players at an almost alarming rate. I like the story but as I get to know and like the players he knocks them off or gives them a fate worse than death.

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  Dallandra > November 22nd, 2004, 09:40 AM

  The truth is that Martin has ruined death scenes for me! Every time I read about a character dying, in any book, I can't enjoy the scene coz I keep thinking: Is this person really dead...?

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  Bacchus > November 22nd, 2004, 07:38 PM

  It's more specific than merely killing off important characters. Martin tends to kill off protagonist characters at an alarming rate. Antagonist characters seem to do somewhat better, at least so far.
  
  The other interesting thing that Martin pulls off is the conversion (in some cases) of antagonist characters to protagonist characters. It is interesting to examine the actions of a character like Jaime from his perspective after having seen them from an external perspective.

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  Falagar > November 30th, 2004, 08:56 PM

  I read A Game of Thrones aboult half a year ago, and was instantly hooked. Martin's an expert at character-developement and suspense (something he might have gotten from the film-industry), and I love the way you never know what will happen next, whether it will be good or bad...and also the difficulty to distinguish the two.
  
  His willingness to show life's dirtier sides and that most people are just people is greatly appreciated in a genre that loves happy kingdoms and dark, wicked overlords.
  
  A Feast for Crows is taking ages! ad:

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  dennisjbarton > December 8th, 2004, 03:16 AM

  Never read a free-standing work by GRRM, but enjoyed the Wild Cards series, which he edited/oversaw. Involves super-heroes emerging on earth (Manhattan, surprise, surprise) as a result of an extra-terrestrial bio-chem attack. Pretty good stuff, shorts by various authors of note. Very well-rounded characters, for sci-fi, and not at all as juvenile as you might think; characters actually died, foolishly, ignobly, as they well might in a real-world (ha-ha) that contained super-heroes. Recommend it highly.
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