Still haven't touched ASOIAF and won't until Martin either finishes it or dies. I will say that if the entire point is SUPERREALISTIC MONARCHIC BACKSTABBING WITH ALMOST NO MAGIC I *think* I'd rather read a good novel about the Hundred Years War or something.
And it's a powerful effect—when you walk by the Mississippi today, you see, quite directly, the physical reality of the river, almost exactly as Twain described it, and you also feel the soul of the place—a far tricker thing to capture.)
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Date: 2014-06-05 10:07 pm (UTC)Still haven't touched ASOIAF and won't until Martin either finishes it or dies. I will say that if the entire point is SUPERREALISTIC MONARCHIC BACKSTABBING WITH ALMOST NO MAGIC I *think* I'd rather read a good novel about the Hundred Years War or something.
And it's a powerful effect—when you walk by the Mississippi today, you see, quite directly, the physical reality of the river, almost exactly as Twain described it, and you also feel the soul of the place—a far tricker thing to capture.)
Excellent point.