My obligatory GoT post...

[lebateleur]

...as I imagine there will be a lot of these in the coming days.

I read the first book at the urging of a friend in '99 and thought it was a bloated pot boiler.

Also at the urging of friends, I have periodically revisited the show with an eye to evaluating it on its own merits. It hasn't won me over.

Sure, it's gritty. But "realistically" gritty? No. If you can believably depict a world with dragons, you can believably depict a world in which rape isn't a major mechanism of female character development (cf. Garth Nix, Sherwood Smith, et al.).

"But the rape is there to show how awful sexual violence is!
I'll believe that when the same time and loving attention is spent lingering on the eroticized violence of men getting raped.

これで以上です。

Comments

[metal_dog5]

You did better than I did. I couldn't get past the first few chapters when the book's release was shiny and new. I tried again when they announced the series with the same results.

[lebateleur]

I'll be interested to see how many cheerleaders revise their opinions now the series has concluded to largely unfavorable reviews and Martin seems likely to never finish the novels.