[Ursa major]

I'm not sure we should be telling people not to read books; if they don't want to do so, they won't need anyone's encouragement. The reading of any book (or the watching of any TV show) is not a proto-cult that only permits the most devoted to breath the novel's name, let alone view the contents.

And we shouldn't be so defensive of what we like that we seek to chase off those who disagree. No work of art is perfect, particularly something as complex as a novel, let alone a series of very long books. There are things to like and dislike; our opinion of the books depends on the balance we see in them.


Now if the OP had come here and made a pronouncement that ASoIaF is rubbish - which they didn't - and gave no explanation of why they felt that way, that would be trolling. That the OP provided something we can discuss - and perhaps should be discussing - couldn't be further from that. (Let's face it, if this board only contained people more or less violently agreeing with each other, it would be a much poorer place. And very dull.)


So can we please return to the merits, or otherwise, of ASoIaF, and refrain from "discussing" other people posting here and what we think they ought to be doing.