Some support for this is that he didn’t even mean to write the fourth book. Again, I am fine with his overly long descriptions of certain things, but I think he is using it as a crutch to make his books longer.
#Game of thrones houses full#
He has frequently spent more than one full page describing a singe, simple scene, because grass can’t be green, it has to be a lustrous, swaying ocean of green stalks, with a glowing, bright white sun across them. You cannot, however, tell me his descriptions of the natural world in the books are concise in any way. I do understand the way he describes the sigils is representative of their houses and is used to ‘concisely’ tell the reader about those houses, but I feel he relies too heavily on that as his one way of distinguishing between certain people. Whenever there was a new battle, I heard four or five more sigil descriptions, then never heard from those houses again after the battle (why tell me about the sigil when you’re just using that house as cannon fodder?). That’s fine for the larger houses, but by the time I quit reading 700 pages into book three (those of you who have read it know what drove me over the edge), GRRM was describing sigils of people who weren’t important at all, and it was often the only time those people were mentioned in the books.
My main problem with the sigils is he describes every sigil in existence. If you don’t like Game of Thrones, come up with a better reason for you say so… I just don’t think sigils need an entire paragraph to describe them. He’s not dropping acid just because he likes description. If there weren’t multiple paragraphs describing the scenery, how will we, the readers, have an adequate picture of what’s going on? Come on. I’m not saying that GRRM is fantastic, or that he doesn’t introduce some superfluous characters/houses, but your argument is really, really stupid. In case you’ve forgotten, description is one of the fundamental things that makes any given piece of literature memorable. Sometimes multiple paragraphs are devoted to describing the banner of a house, or the way sunlight reflects off the scenery” are. A knight from House Swann is part of the Kingsguard, and those characters become pretty important later on, too.Īlso, Jim Lahey, I just want to point out how silly the sentences, “Honestly, read through any of the books and tell me you’re not reading a list of colors and descriptory words at least half the time. We get to see him next season, so you can look forward to that. House Bolton becomes really important in the North later on in the series, and the only character from House Seaworth is this awesome guy called Davos, who is with Stannis.