A Clash of Kings by George R.R. MartinMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
They say.."Once bitten, twice shy". I should have taken this quote seriously, but alas. I decided to give this series one more chance and now feel terribly abused. The book to me seemed like nothing but immature, perverse rants by the author. I happened to scroll down the reviews list on Goodreads after I saw that the average rating for this book was a whopping 4.38 out of 5, and found everyone raving about the book. I shouldn't have been surprised though. Anyone who disliked the style in the first book would have stopped right there. I just happened to go on with it anyway, because I thought the story had potential. I figured it couldn't get any worse, right? WRONG! The author's writing is perverse,sadistic to the point of nauseating, completely avoidable in the story and just keeps going on and on. Well, it totally demotivated me from picking up the next book in the series.
The book is all about a bunch of mediocre men wanting to be king and killing/looting/raping people left and right, annoying, loose women, upright, boring women and mopey people shuffling along throughout the 800+ pages of the book.
I got to a point where I just could not deal with the depressing story-line anymore, and Martin is excellent at discouraging any hopeful readers. So, I just took the easier way out and skimmed Wikipedia for the story (saved me from dealing with the ugly language in Martin's books) and I am left satisfied that I made the right decision, albeit a tad late. It's too bad that there were a couple of characters I was beginning to have an interest in.
Anyway, an excerpt from Martin's wiki page
"Major themes and areas of exploration in his short fiction include loneliness, connection, tragically doomed love, idealism, romanticism, and hard truth versus comforting deceit. Many of these occur in his magnum opus as well, but most of them are more abundant and obvious in his shorter works." Comforting deceit? Beats me!
Anyway here's the summary of all 7 books,including the couple he's writing. Be ready for spoilers!!
Behead, rape, behead, incest, bastard, repeat. Aaaaaaaaaaaarghhh!!!
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Somehow I just never truly enjoyed watching it on TV... It just tries so hard to be something like LOTR but fails miserably.
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