Chichikov never finished game of thrones?that's honestly kind of disappointing because I agree with you on almost everything and it's really not like a standard fantasy book. Did you at least read until Bran's fall? That seems to be the part that hooks most people.
I got quite a bit past it, I don't know, it's just such, for a lack of a better word,
functional writing, like, it serves the purpose to move the plot forward and not much else.
I also don't really get why it needs so many characters, so many plot lines, so many places with weird names, I know people like that shit, but for me, if you need to refer to a map or a glossary to figure out what's the fuck is going on exactly (slight exaggeration for dramatic effect, but I hope you understand what I'm getting at) it makes for a tedious reading.
And watching the show (which I enjoy for what it is, a really well made pulp), shit, there's still no payoff to this way of writing. And I'm not saying every story need have a single protagonist, a traditional structure or any of that shit, fuck, Pale Fire is like my favorite book ever, I can deal with telling story in unusual ways, but I'm not sure it serves anything here other than make me go "fuck, again with this whiny bitch? can I just skip this chapter?".
It probably didn't help that it's heavily influenced by one of my least favorite periods in history, the War of the Roses.
