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Alright! I can't take it anymore! This post has been percolating inside me for weeks. I can no long keep it in. You may have heard that the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin has announced that he has completed and will be publishing the next volume, A Dance With Dragons in his series A Song of Ice and Fire this summer. Additionally, the HBO
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And I get a lot of "Well, you haven't read the other books, so you can't really judge the series..." but that's one and a half MILLION words! The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy was less than 500 thousand! I finished the first book and know the plots of the other ones, and if that's not enough for me to have a valid opinion, then that's just not being fair.
I've only met one other person who read the first novel and (like me) recognized that there was a lot there for people to be into, but just wasn't into it.
Also, I think that the question of whether GRRM's work is actually high fantasy or not is interesting - because I realize that even though I am a big fan of Tolkien, who is generally regarded as having created the genre (or at least being its first big success story), I don't really enjoy any of the other big-name writers, like Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, or Steven Erikson. So it could be that I don't like high fantasy!
But questions of genre-definition may be a bit far afield from this discussion.
I appreciate your response! And for taking so much time to do it, too. I totally understand how someone could have a different reaction than I do to the books, and to really enjoy them, but I just don't, and I don't think that's going to change.
I'm glad we can still be friends!
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