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DuranOfForcena posted...

cmiller4642 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

My only beef is the overly long descriptions of food and clothing. Joffrey's wedding made me rage, like Jesus man, shut the fuck up about embroidery.

The food sounds amazing tho

it does, and the descriptions of it and other things serve a purpose. when you read paragraphs worth of descriptions about opulent 77 course wedding feasts with roasted capons dripping with grease and pease porridge in a pool of butter and lemon cakes and lamprey pies and all that stuff that the nobility eats, and then you read about the pot shops down in Fleabottom that serve bowls of brown, the meat in which you don't want to look too closely at or speculate about, it serves to underscore the massive class divide and really put the reader into the societal mindset of the setting.

I loved the way the small towns and inns are described too. The show kind of takes away from the world itself. There's a chapter in Dance With Dragons where Tyrion walks across a crowded bridge in Essos (his first visit to the continent) and it describes in detail all of the exotic and strange things that he sees.