Books

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gergroy said:

I think the last two song of ice and fire books are why it isn't a good approach.  Martin is starting to approach Jordan levels of delayed storytelling.  Plus, I think Martin does have a general outline of what he wants to do with each book as he knows how many books are going to be in the series...

More or less... at first ASOIAF was to be a trilogy, then a hexalogy with a time skip, then a hexalogy without a time skip, before finally settling for the current seven-book format we're all expecting him to comply. 

And thinking about it now I kind of agree about the overall slow pace and lack of a general plot that cursed AFFC to have carried over to ADWD... but at least the characters are better and we've seen the resolution of plotlines left over a decade hanging, so I guess that's part of the book being perceived on a better light than AFFC.