I can't even remember Lollys. Here's the main problem I have with Martin, is the frigging over-kill. The violence I'm sorry is gratuitious in these books, it's gotten to the point that I don't even take it seriously and find it either silly, oh...they are going to burn another kid now, or oh look, another guy got his hand, foot, finger, genitalia, or thumb cut off.
Titus Adronicus isn't this violent, nor is Silence of the Lambs.
It's a bit like your complaints about gratiutious sex scenes? Well gratuitious violence has more or less the same effect in fiction, after a while you just get bored and stop caring. It deadens the reader. I haven't cried once in these books. I find the characters fascinating, but the violence is so unrelentingly gruesome and deadening it's hard to care.
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Date: 2013-04-24 09:22 pm (UTC)Titus Adronicus isn't this violent, nor is Silence of the Lambs.
It's a bit like your complaints about gratiutious sex scenes? Well gratuitious violence has more or less the same effect in fiction, after a while you just get bored and stop caring. It deadens the reader. I haven't cried once in these books. I find the characters fascinating, but the violence is so unrelentingly gruesome and deadening it's hard to care.
That's a problem.