Thread: Is a Song of Ice and Fire better than Lord of the Rings?
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Old 08-22-2014, 04:33 AM   #75
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Is a Song of Ice and Fire better than Lord of the Rings?
Only if you like envisioning dystopia.

After both reading all of the books and watching the show up-to-date, I think I'm done with ASoIaF.
  • Everyone you like gets slaughtered or broken
  • Everyone you don't like gets slaughtered or broken
  • Everyone in Westeros is miserable. Without exception. There isn't one happy person in the entire world.
  • Westeros is as depressing as Oceania in 1984. It's even worse than Ohio.

I'm going to go read Cormac McCarthy's The Road to cheer up now.
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