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What is your favorite story arc?
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday January 30 2017, @05:23PM
The most recent series wasn't based on a book, because George R. R. Martin still hasn't finished writing it. After the second book, I said I wouldn't read any of the rest until he'd finished, but then I saw the complete set for a couple of pounds in a charity shop and relented. The last one finishes with a cliff hangar, but by that point I really don't care. He's killed off most of the likeable characters (which, I suppose, is realistic: it's a fairly brutal world) and there's no sign of any of the story lines being resolved other than by all of the participants dying. The pacing of the TV adaptations made the books feel brisk in comparison.
That said, and back on topic, the story arc in his Tuf Voyaging [wikipedia.org] collection of short stories is the best thing I've read by George R. R. Martin. The only other thing I've read in the same universe was Dying of the Light, which was fairly mediocre. It's a shame that the quality of his early work seems to be a lot higher than his later work.
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