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The first 300 pages of A Game of Thrones are boring as fug and dry as hell to boot. I almost didn't make it through them. You don't really give a poo about anyone, and nothing really happens. Once poo kicks into gear though, Martin really separates himself from all other authors in any genre.

The series is coming out on HBO in less than a month. So if you have trouble getting into that first book (the first 1/3rd is boring as poo) then maybe the series will help jump start your interests.

Raising Hope is a pretty good show.

Can you find the one where Chris Simms lost his spleen next?

Sounds like what Martin did with Song of Ice and Fire. Its like a mystery/political/historical fiction fused with a light tapestry of fantasy. Very gritty adult fiction. There's a joke between myself and my friends that he really wanted to write some porn, and disguised it as fantasy. The sex scenes are not graphic though. Just more than you would expect from fantasy. 'A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant.' -Robert Jordan

Altered Carbon sounds like my style. I love it when multiple genres are successfully infused.

lol vonnegut Now I understand.

Bradbury was just a good writer, and I wouldn't confine him to a single genre.

Asimov is more weird than sci-fi.

Dragonlance was awesome when I was 12! But Forgotten Realms was much better for tabletop campaigns.

Yep and I was the same age when I read Dragonlance. Hmmmm, maybe Raistlin is the fantasy genres greatest sin. Kind of too close to call there.

And the greatest sin of the fantasy genre is Drizzt.

I read it before I read any other fantasy, so it was new to me.

Dry is putting it nicely. Bland and predictable would be more appropriate.

Game of Thrones.