Originally Posted by
Vorenos
Sloth, it all comes down to personal taste, in the end. i totally understand all of your complaints about the pace of the book and the way it meanders about. However, i read the same book you did and i loved every minute of it. for me, the truth is in the details, in the random bits of history or daily life that are buried in there that makes the world full and truly realistic (the "realest" fantasy world i have ever encountered, by far). i totally loved the long descriptions of jon snow working things out with stannis or the wildlings and bowen marsh, of tyrion on the river or as a slave, with dany in mereen, etc.
if you want a different pace or less descriptive narrative, i dont know why you made it this long into the series, to be quite honest. its not like ADWD was the first book to be long winded...