/lit/ - Literature

>>9308155
Martin has repeatedly affirmed his autism for real world parallels and in-depth explanations/justifications, yet fails to provide those in his own books. He tries to pass off his books as alt-history with dragons but they're no more believable than Eragon.

>>9285716
Do you think >>9285645 is John, or GRRM? Notice the subtle GoT apologia thrown in the middle there.

>>9134296
>implying GoT is a smarter equivalent to anything

>>6715965
lel
>>6715973
>thinking it's because he said hit
lel
Santa Claus has shit prose, deal with it.

>>6630480
GRRM has strengths and weaknesses.

He tried doing something different with all his historical references to battles and dynastic turmoil, such as Greek Fire in Byzantine's famous naval battles, and the marriage/heir drama in the 100 years war.

His prose has gone from not great to bad, largely because he knows that his HBO deal will sell his brandname, so now he refuses to listen to his editor.

He claims he has an overall theme in mind for his magic and that it should be obvious, but then makes vague choices in the novel, (why do Catelin Stark/Beric Dondarion/cold hands still have their personalities when they return, but the white walkers don't?). Or out of character makes weird contradictions, such as stating that Danny isn't immune to fire, she can still be burned, and her funeral pyre scene was magic.

He seems to have changed his mind about the direction the novels are headed, since he stated them in the 90's, which has made the story bloated. Bloated not only in density and number of novels but some characters keep getting chapters that just delay the inevitable because other characters aren't in position yet for major plot points.

There are some fanboys that are trying to deny this is a direct quote so I just searched for the source.

Any other funny quotes? I suppose I can look for some, searching for "stool" brings up quite a lot of results.