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War & Peace was indeed well worth the read. My aunt bought it for me right before I left for Kosovo in 2000 and it took several months of reading parts in my spare time but did manage to finish it all. Cort could say the author spent a lot of time on extraneous detail and could have shortened it up considerably, that would be fair, but one of the cool things is he was so detailed describing whole rooms and what everyone wore and how they acted so well that it is almost a case book study in what life was like in Tsarist Russia. The level of detail and realism was just that good.
To be fair, there is a fair bit of "so-and-so is dead! ... NO THEY AREN'T!" in ASOIAF, too.
It was more that so few important characters actually die in LotR, that I can't get any real sense of loss form the writing, and that just doesn't happen in ASOIAF.
That's the ****ing point. LotR = crap writing with little emotional investment and tons of dei ex machinae, ASOIAF = huge piles of dead bodies (and that isn't a spoiler) and real shock at the events.
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
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