Is it worth reading Game of Thrones knowing that George R.R. Martin is unlikely to finish the story due to his age?
I wouldn’t like to start a story knowing that there will be no end, as has happened with Vagabond or Berserk, and could you recommend similar medieval fantasy books to me, in case I don’t read Game of Thrones?
I have read them, and I’m a huge fan. So much of any good story is the journey and not the destination and ASOIAF is an incredible journey. There are a lot of deep characters and relationship that develop and some do conclude within what is already written. I think it’s worth it!
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I was a huge fan for a little while, but I’m hesitant to send someone on that journey. It’s a very different experience to read something actively being built from something that was abandoned.
Whatever made the first book extraordinary began to devolve into bloat and confusion. There weren’t any more characters to care about, just weirder and weirder plot twists that were unsatisfying.
Maybe read the first book, consider it to be a cliff hanger and then…don’t read any more.
It gets worse and worse as it progresses and I ultimately have abandoned it the same way the author did.
I don’t think there’s anything like it, particularly the first-person narrative style that is deeply expansive, character driven and completely unwilling to ‘resolve’ a story in a traditional way.
The best series I can think of that is medieval fantasy with dragons is Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider series and Dragonsong series. She’s an extraordinary storyteller who constructs great characters, intricate worlds and does in fact resolve the stories in satisfying (and heartbreaking) ways. That’s a lady that has made me ugly cry a LOT.
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I have read them, and I’m a huge fan. So much of any good story is the journey and not the destination and ASOIAF is an incredible journey. There are a lot of deep characters and relationship that develop and some do conclude within what is already written. I think it’s worth it!
I was a huge fan for a little while, but I’m hesitant to send someone on that journey. It’s a very different experience to read something actively being built from something that was abandoned.
Whatever made the first book extraordinary began to devolve into bloat and confusion. There weren’t any more characters to care about, just weirder and weirder plot twists that were unsatisfying.
Maybe read the first book, consider it to be a cliff hanger and then…don’t read any more.
It gets worse and worse as it progresses and I ultimately have abandoned it the same way the author did.
I don’t think there’s anything like it, particularly the first-person narrative style that is deeply expansive, character driven and completely unwilling to ‘resolve’ a story in a traditional way.
The best series I can think of that is medieval fantasy with dragons is Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider series and Dragonsong series. She’s an extraordinary storyteller who constructs great characters, intricate worlds and does in fact resolve the stories in satisfying (and heartbreaking) ways. That’s a lady that has made me ugly cry a LOT.
Mo