He has too many pov chapters. If he had less pov he could be done by now. He should have just put the other pov it in a side book.
Wasn’t there another author who converted to Islam whose family tried to cover up a lot of that sort of thing after his death? I think that’s who the poster was thinking of. I forgot his name though.
There's a semi-plausible fan theory that the unrecognizable horribly burned guy who died wasn't Quentyn but a patsy.
Those kind of theories are always around but they are too far fetched, tbh. It's obvious that it's Quentyn the one who died because he was the one thinking he could handle the dragons due to his Targ blood.
It's one of those things which I hope is just a red herring or over-enthusiastic imagination because it undermines the meaning of the story for the sake of a shocking plot twist, but based on a "close reading" of the text it's apparently not impossible. See also "Tyrion is the bastard son of Mad King Aerys".
I think Martin himself has said that people read too much into the plot, and he's also very in-your-face about foreshadowing.
No. For a few reasons. Number one is that people have had time to really digest and analyze the books and have the hype wear off where people can be objective. Two is that people are no longer fawning and praising GRRM as the next Tolkien and he is no longer immune to criticism. Three is that the fandom has grown up and people are older and more mature and nuanced and can see that his writing style is weak and unrealistic and classless. Stuff like "her cunt became the world" or "she shit profuse diarrhea down her thin legs" or whatever creepy sex or shit scene he is writing next for Winds.
You pretty much described GRRM's entire writing style. Subverting expectation and dumb plot twists over and over. And over and over. Forever. Red herrings and wild impossible to predict plot twists.
This is not a red herring, this is a prelude to Dany's storyline.
Robb Stark is not a main character, he's a plot. His death is meant to set the Northern plot for them to rally around the last Stark, Jon, who we know it's not a bastard. Jon might well be what unites Fire (Targ father) and Ice (Stark mother). He was never a big player, he's someone whose actions only set bigger actions for more important characters. Sansa, Bran, Arya, and Jon are the important characters.
I always though the problem with Storm of Swords is that there's no satisfying ending, it just sort of ends and fades out into the boredom of the next two books. But I recall most of it was pretty top notch.
His sex scenes are nothing to write home about, but the bit about Dany getting liquid diarrhea is because she drank bad water. I've seen it in other books, specifically "As Meat Loves Salt", which has an entire chapter based around men sitting around in the rain and getting dysentery.
Just re-read them last month and IMHO the first one is the weakest of the three while the third one is the absolute pure genrelitdope.
That's all on the fat fuck, firs 3 books set up a pretty tight narrative. 4 and 5 bloated it all to high hell adding more and more shit. Don't know if he was just unable to cut off the fat or he felt the need to overexplain fucking everything, but the moment book 4 did not start with "5 years passed" he basically fucked himself over.
Pretty much, would it have been better explained in the books? Probably. But Bran was still going to be your fucking king and "bran the broken is the most interesting story" sounds like something verbatim Martin would have written.
I like hiking but not enough that the most interesting story is the crippled kid has bad dreams then rides his retard male nanny through a thousand miles of forest and mountains
Considering Quentyn's last chapter was literally "that dragon sure seems mad" and that he has no reason to play dead I really doubt it. In general his chapters were just meandering "oh look how awesome I am for subverting the classical hero rescues a princess story" (which was THE pet peeve of post modernists in the 2000's). As if John isn't the most basic bitch hero archetype.
It's not even dozens of miles. Because they make it back to the Wall on the show just fine and Bran rules from King's Landing in the end. GRRM loves to write these "go in the opposite direction of the plot" style events. Like Dany being told "you must go east before you go west". Or Bran venturing to the furthest north point beyond the Wall before going all the way to King's Landing down south. Or the entire story focusing on the Iron Throne and not Ice and Fire. It's why the story will never be written fully.
Yes and he has yet another damsel in distress storyline to play out in typical subverting expectations style with the Princess in the Tower chapters. And another prince rescuing the princess storyline with Victarion riding to Dany. So we have more GRRM grim dark edgelord chapters incoming (but not really coming as that would involve writing the books).
Not just rushing to destroy their virginity but also engage in lesbianism, have multiple partners, tons of masturbation, only unprotected sex, using abortifacients, incest, ordering their servants male and female to pleasure them, sex over their father's corpse, it just never ends.
There's a great video pitting ASOIAF "theorists" against mostly bullshit fan theories.
Tyrion being Tywins son is also pretty much explained by that woman Lannister i believe Tywins sister (sorry it's been a while). She talks to Jaime and tells him Tyrion is more like Tywin than any of his children the similarities are also hinted at with shae and the secret passage way to the whore house in the tower of the hand used by Tywin when he was hand of the king. As Tyrion states 'I am you writ small" it would be a huge kick in the dick to make him anything but Tywins son.
Genna Lannister.
There's a good cross-section of ASOIAF theorists and Souls theorists. It's people who try to justify their obsession with claiming of depth despite the writer having absolutely no subtlety. Like legit the fifth book Dany gets told what is going to happen to her and the people she's going to meet. There is zero tension of her fate or that Targ kid being fake.
BUT MUH DREAMS OF DRAGONS AND THE DRAGON HAS THREE HEADS!
Yes. It's implied that Aerys had sex or raped Joanna Lannister in a few chapters as well. That he "took liberties" and was obsessed with Joanna. And that she tried to abort the child not knowing if it was from Aerys or Tywin. This is why Tyrion came out all malformed. It's like GRRM's version of a thalidomide baby or something. She desperately tried to stop being pregnant at one point. But it ended up causing the child to be damaged and it killed her as well when the delivery became violent.
