lol Well I will agree its not for everyone. I actually enjoy all the characters and their background. The people complaining in the reviews is because they want the story to come to an end, but what about all the stuff that happens in between. This isn't your teen novella clocking in at 300 pages.
Characters die just like real life it is no fairytale
and book 4 A Feast For Crows was actually one of my favs for reasons I can't go into in this thread because its not caught up to the show. When you play the game of thrones ser, you either win or you die there is no middle ground.
Does him killing off my favorite characters piss me off? yes, but only at first until I realized that the books are not about Eddard Stark.
he is better than tolkien because he is a lot more hardcore,
tolkien is for kids
Martin is for adults
Agree except for the Tolkien thing. LOTR is definitely suitable for adults.
GOT is not about heroics. It's just about how bad stuff happens to everyone. Life is precarious. Death is all around. There are no favorites (At least not so far, but I'm still cheering for a couple of characters I like to buck the trend!)