Quote:I'm tired of everyone that I root for dying just because it's "his thing".  

I've actually finished the last book he wrote, "A Dance of Dragons".  I dedicated myself to the maxim that if he kills one certain character, I'm just going to stop caring and skip the last two he has yet to write to complete the series.

 

I think I have stopped caring now.

 

To me the most annoying thing in his books has been man's inhumanity to man.  I mean, just how many ways are there to torture someone?  And one other thing - with all this death and destruction, who's doing the farming, distributing the goods, and taking out the garbage anyway?  Magic and dragons and ice revenants aside, it's just getting bloody unbelievable.

 

That being said, he did have me for 5 books.  Advantage: Martin.

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