R.R. Martin - Ice & Fire.

Sup /book/. This is my first time here, so I wouldn't know whether or not you can hold a fairly decent discussion in here, or if this board, like almost all other 4chan boards, is just a means of holding a shitstorm. Hell, let's give it a shot.

So I just started reading the first book in R.R. Martin's Ice & Fire series after a ton of people recommended it to me.

I don't know how many pages I've read, as I use an electronic dictionary to read it.

Is it just me, or is the book total shit? Does he really expect us to remember 500 names of people and places that are given such a poor introduction and are often introduced far too fast?

I thought I was about to read a fantasy book, but it seems I am really reading a trivia of how well you can remember useless and uninteresting information. I wonder if there's a question sheet in the back to confirm my suspicions.

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You guys can't be serious. I've read alot of fantasy books, and while it is true that many authors suck beyond belief when it comes to character introduction, I've never seen anything even remotely as bloated as the incredibly bloated first book in the Ice & Fire series.

What the other authors don't completely suck at, though, is re-introducing the characters a couple of times so you don't have to spend all that time finding out who Earogys Smythz by searching for the introduction on some random previous page.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to continue reading it despite my doubts, but you have to admit that the character introduction in the book is something that could've been improved, especially the part where he never gives you pointers to who a person is after having introduced him or her once.

Well, you don't have to admit it, but if you don't, you're obviously a fanboy that would've liked the book no matter how shitty it was.