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Re book vs TV series, I reserve judgement, but would say the books are better. If the TV series can make the following spoiler funnier than when I read it in the book, the TV series may win on that one count.
Spoiler:
Tywin's death
Spoiler:
Tywin's death
contains many many plots that are untold but can be read between the lines. It's one of those things why the books are so good. There are a lot of plots and stories told without explicitly mentioning them. you can reread the books and learn new things.
Dorne's my favorite region as well, although the whole Myrcella plotline is a big waste of space. I also like Quentyn Martell as he reminds me of myself at that age, getting eaten by a dragon like an idiot is probably the sort of thing I'd end up doing if I were in Westeros
Spoiler:
Well, lucky for him if he would have been eaten. In fact he just got toasted and died a several day long painful death, including remarks his mixed ancestry may have "protected" him from a quick death.
Talking about spoilers, the other day I acquired a movie (book of eli) and by circumstance landed on a website with user comments. One of the first was a huge plot spoiler, just for the troll. Changed the movie experience.
Dorne sucks Imran, you're the only person who likes it.
Spoiler:
Dorne's my favorite region as well, although the whole Myrcella plotline is a big waste of space. I also like Quentyn Martell as he reminds me of myself at that age, getting eaten by a dragon like an idiot is probably the sort of thing I'd end up doing if I were in Westeros
I can see how Victarion has a role to play. Eventually. He seems to hold a massive trump card in the Dragon Horn thing. Dorne was just so desperately dull, though. It arrives in the book completely breaking the rhythm of the interesting stuff that was happening elsewhere. It introduces about seven new characters in 3 pages, none of whom I can give a toss about when I want to know what's happening to Brienne and Ayra and Littlefinger and Sansa and Varys and Jon and Sam and all the Lannisters and Mance and the zombies and ... and... It's like having to stop having great sex to go shopping.
GET ON WITH IT!
Spoiler:
There will no doubt be a final big war with the various seven kingdoms all taking sides to decide who will be king. Dorne and the Ayrie will no doubt be key since neither of them have so far fought in any wars and so are fresh so the Dorne chapters are no doubt setting up how Dorne decides which group to eventually side with. Then there is Little Finger as Prince Regent up in the Ayrie, the youngest Stark son who has yet to come into his own and who is in hiding, Blackfish Tully, House Lannister is in shambles but Jamie may yet man up, and remember that the Tyrells are still around and the iron throne pretty much just fell into their laps.
Oh, then there is the whole thing with the war for the dawn and the prince who was promised. That will probably be resolved in the next book even as the grand war for the iron throne takes up where the war of the five kings ended.
I like his writing. I don't like his self-indulgence. Some do, clearly, which is fine. He doesn't have to drag us tortuously through the mind of every person on his planet to tell a good story.
You've obviously never read Tolstoy as he's another great author who just loves to "drag us tortuously through the mind of every person on his planet" though I must say he does tell a good story.
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