A Game of Thrones question

Stick with it, it all starts to make sense, but it takes reading a lot of pages, before it does.

Like Jim said, it takes commitment. It keeps switching between characters and you don't know who they are at first, but eventually you get it all down.

So where else is OK to spend hundreds of thousands of words developing characters and suddenly kill them off because you can't think of where to take them in your story? I can't stop myself from loving it never the less.

Trying to figure out what the hell the author is doing in writing the books is hard to understand.

He puts in thousands of pages of character development...and then kills them off. Lots of them.

Most of all I think game of thrones is incredibly boring.

More pages are spent on who's related to who and what their heraldric banner looks like than furthering the story I think.

Watch the tv series and read some good fantasy instead! :D

It's a bit confusing because there are a lot of characters. I felt the first book got off to a slow start because it spent so much time establishing who was who, but it got much better later on and in the subsequent books.

Its hard to understand why it turns normal, everyday citizens into drooling, glassy-eyed, sheep. If someone finds a way to combine this with some kind of designer-drug, say goodbye to a functional society. Antidote? Read real books, rather than insipid escapism.