| Re: ASOI&F Going Downhill?
Ok for me AFFC was just not complete and that was only because of the way it has been published. To leave out half the characters is a huge mistake but that mistake, once the series is complete, will not stand out so much because all of the books will be available. The writing is as good as any of the other books but the POV's left out were probably most of his fans favorite POV's thus the feelings of AFFC being, at least for me, incomplete are completely correct.
I really do feel that GRRM felt he had to publish something because it had been too long between books, probably a lot of preasure from his publisher or maybe he felt preasure from us, his fans. I think, he was not even ready to publish AFFC with a "to be continued" at the end and still having all POV's included up until then. So they decided to publish the parts that I consider to be 'A Game of Thrones' leaving out the best part of his wonderful song.
Its a shame but I think once all the books are available this mistake won't seem so obvious.
Rahl |