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Old 06-09-2016, 12:25 PM   #3237
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Originally Posted by keg in kc View Post
I'm trying to think of anything the tv show has done better than the books, and I'm drawing a blank. Which is not to say it hasn't done some things well, or that there aren't entire print chapters I don't skim through or outright skip.
I believe that's your answer.

The pacing has been far better in the show. As you've noted, you've skipped entire swaths of the books and with good reason. Martin's books are so ponderous that the story will get lost in the weeds at times.

And frankly, he's only getting worse.

I'm honestly not convinced he'll even wrap this thing up in 2 more. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he decided that the last book needed to be split into 2 more and in the end, I doubt the ending will be any more satisfying, just a lot harder to get to.
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