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Balrog0 posted...

Nah feast is bad and much worse than cok. He should have stuck with the timeskip instead. Y'all are comparing the pacing of the fourth, unplanned book that was meant to be handled though flashbacks to the first book in the series, that's insane. And it's not even fair to the first book, which does a better job of moving things along even though they need to introduce us to an entirely new setting.

I also read wot, you're allowed to like bad books but that doesn't make them good. I mean I starting reading these book series when I was 12.

I don't really feel the need to belabor this point though, I'd argue that more people who bitch at grrm agree with me than you two regardless of who is right. Maybe I'm wrong but I've only seen a positive reception to like 2-3 chapters in DWD and none for feast over most of the internet

*shrug*

For me, how well plot moves has never been that important for writing. I am a big fan of slow, indulgent writing. For instance, "Fly" is one of my favorite episodes in Breaking Bad (top 5 probably), and the second half of the last season dropped in quality because they moved through plot points at a break neck pace (in comparison to other parts of the series). Particularly when there are great books where the plot isn't that important or isn't even coherent.

Edit: In general I'm less sensitive to pacing issues compared to other people. There are examples which are egregiously bad (like Walking Dead having half season which are 100% pointless garbage), but I don't this Feast or DWD is one of them.

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