GEORGE MARTIN ABUSES HIS READERS!!!
You see the warnings signs in threads. Someone says they threw down the books and stopped reading, swearing off George Martin.
I'll warn you now. He's like an abuser, who manipulates you and then sticks your head in the sand.
Until now, you have had writers that are dark. Even the Silmarillion was mostly dark, and especially those chapters relating to the lives of the Children of Hurin. But that was different. It was framed in a mythological setting, where a family is accursed by Morgoth, a devilish Valar.
George Martin has created what I'll call, Fanticide, which is slowly putting his readers to death. His TRANTICY- Traggic Fantasy, isn't written like a shakespearean tragedy.
He will make you sympathsize with the Stark Family, and then he'll systematically abuse them on a pathological frequency. In fact, there's no character, except perhaps one or two, that he spares for the time being, that he doesn't try to get you to like them before he takes them away at the expense of your enjoyment.
This isn't normal behavior. And he's taken it beyond what I'll call a Fantasy SOAP OPERA.
Last night, I didn't want to throw a book. He provoked me to such a state of sadness and anger, that if I met him on the street, I wouldn't have shaken his hand, or thrown a tomato. I was likely to have punched him squarely in the face and called him an (expletive deleted)
What an ---- And I still feel the same. He's taken my trust as a reader. He's given me no heroes. He's constantly set up one case after the other of READER ABUSE to the point where I feel wounded, defiled.
I don't care if he's so brilliant anymore. He's a diabolical (Expletive) I simply don't like the man. Jerk. Talented, gifted, Jerk.
Sure, I'll have to work this out. Perhaps there's some redeeming side to the man, even a loveable side. Right now I'm not seeing it. Honestly, I was hoping that once in awhile he'd satisfy the reader.
Now I feel like I need to start a ex-SOFAI support group, for those who don't like having their genitelia systematically twisted in knots and shredded.
No writer has ever made me so mad that I would need to be restrained if he'd knocked on my door. You're a READER ABUSER! And that's not an attempt at being humerous.
Get a life. No - that's not good writing. That's being a (expletive!!!) No that's not being "REAL". No family that isn't accursed can constantly be made to be that stupid, or that unlucky. And if that was your point, then you should have forecast it, so that those who love tragic stories would buy it, and those who do not, would simply walk away.
I needed to vent. I'm Nate. I'm a former George Martin fan who has seen the light. No one should be considered a fan until they've read at least three or four books and still think he's a good writer.
George, you could have had a fan for life. But you wouldn't have emotionally flayed me over and over again. And then I let you back in the door, and you do it again! Grow up and get a life! You Nietzsche wannabe!~
You see the warnings signs in threads. Someone says they threw down the books and stopped reading, swearing off George Martin.
I'll warn you now. He's like an abuser, who manipulates you and then sticks your head in the sand.
Until now, you have had writers that are dark. Even the Silmarillion was mostly dark, and especially those chapters relating to the lives of the Children of Hurin. But that was different. It was framed in a mythological setting, where a family is accursed by Morgoth, a devilish Valar.
George Martin has created what I'll call, Fanticide, which is slowly putting his readers to death. His TRANTICY- Traggic Fantasy, isn't written like a shakespearean tragedy.
He will make you sympathsize with the Stark Family, and then he'll systematically abuse them on a pathological frequency. In fact, there's no character, except perhaps one or two, that he spares for the time being, that he doesn't try to get you to like them before he takes them away at the expense of your enjoyment.
This isn't normal behavior. And he's taken it beyond what I'll call a Fantasy SOAP OPERA.
Last night, I didn't want to throw a book. He provoked me to such a state of sadness and anger, that if I met him on the street, I wouldn't have shaken his hand, or thrown a tomato. I was likely to have punched him squarely in the face and called him an (expletive deleted)
What an ---- And I still feel the same. He's taken my trust as a reader. He's given me no heroes. He's constantly set up one case after the other of READER ABUSE to the point where I feel wounded, defiled.
I don't care if he's so brilliant anymore. He's a diabolical (Expletive) I simply don't like the man. Jerk. Talented, gifted, Jerk.
Sure, I'll have to work this out. Perhaps there's some redeeming side to the man, even a loveable side. Right now I'm not seeing it. Honestly, I was hoping that once in awhile he'd satisfy the reader.
Now I feel like I need to start a ex-SOFAI support group, for those who don't like having their genitelia systematically twisted in knots and shredded.
No writer has ever made me so mad that I would need to be restrained if he'd knocked on my door. You're a READER ABUSER! And that's not an attempt at being humerous.
Get a life. No - that's not good writing. That's being a (expletive!!!) No that's not being "REAL". No family that isn't accursed can constantly be made to be that stupid, or that unlucky. And if that was your point, then you should have forecast it, so that those who love tragic stories would buy it, and those who do not, would simply walk away.
I needed to vent. I'm Nate. I'm a former George Martin fan who has seen the light. No one should be considered a fan until they've read at least three or four books and still think he's a good writer.
George, you could have had a fan for life. But you wouldn't have emotionally flayed me over and over again. And then I let you back in the door, and you do it again! Grow up and get a life! You Nietzsche wannabe!~
