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Author Topic: Song of Ice and Fire  (Read 3269 times)

Willfor

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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #30 on: July 19, 2011, 11:54:13 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on July 19, 2011, 11:16:03 pm
Many people have raved about this, but I'm hesitant to ever pick it up, after reading that the author's motivation for creating the work is a horrendous misinterpretation of Tolkien.
His motivation for writing it after he was initially inspired to write the first scene was to write the kind of story that he'd been held back from writing in Hollywood; a story that would never be able to be filmed on a budget.

Which is somewhat ironic considering how everything turned out.
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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #31 on: July 19, 2011, 11:58:22 pm »
This sounds interesting.
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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #32 on: July 20, 2011, 12:35:33 am »
Sorry, I was wrong.  I got Martin and Moorcock mixed up due to this article.
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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #33 on: July 20, 2011, 02:37:35 am »
I just went on GRRM's website and was stuck wondering if I'd travelled back in time on the internet.
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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #34 on: July 20, 2011, 09:43:13 am »
Was the point of Moorcock's books to "counter" Lord of the Rings?

They were terrible, in any case. Well, the Elric ones anyhow. The first book was cool and the last one was OK if I remember, but in between the plots never amounted to anything besides him going to find some Macguffin, finding some semi-human chick to bang, hacking people up and angsting.
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Re: Song of Ice and Fire
« Reply #35 on: July 20, 2011, 12:05:43 pm »
I concur. Despite the hype I found them to lean onto bad (bad plot, bad writing). The best that can be said about him is that some of his ideas did make it into pop culture (or at least nerdy popular culture).

I find it amusing that he dared to complain that the Witcher saga was a plagiarism of his work...
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