Indeed, if you ignore the bits that inconveniently contradict that idea. I've read ASOIAF short stories that come to a denouement and realization, much less the novels.Captain Seafort wrote:One of the hallmarks. Another is having a plot, rather than just things that happen. ASOIAF is the latter.
This might be true of the upcoming novels, but the original trilogy was set before HBO picked up on the idea. TBH, I was thinking of his much-underrated work on the first revival of The Twilight Zone.Captain Seafort wrote:That might be the problem - he's thinking of it as a TV series rather than a novel.
We could be at loggerheads about definitions here until the end of ever. To avoid pointless irreconcilable squabbling over minutiae, let me amend that to say "series of novels" rather than "novel."Captain Seafort wrote:Hardly. At the very least The Winter King was published a year before AGoT.
So what is that you said that huge swathes of his books - not some, not books in the ASOIAF series - demonstrate that shortcoming. While I don't see it as the flaw that you do, I will admit the presence of that quality in some of ASOIAF; but it is incorrect to say that it persists through Martin's works.Captain Seafort wrote:I haven't. So what? It may be that he's demonstrated better grip in some of his other stories, but not in ASOIAF.
