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I think GRRM is a very good genre fiction writer, but if you come to the books from reading pulp paperbacks or John Grishom or even literary fiction it's gonna come off as stilted and weird. If you started reading ASoIAF as a twee little teenaged fantasy/scifi nerd then you'll probably think he's a pretty good author -- albeit with some evident faults. If you insist on comparing him to like, Nabokov or Faulkner or something, yeah, sorry, no, he isn't remotely that good. I like reading the books because I like getting some medieval soap operas into my head every now and then; I read other poo poo for other reasons. Objectively speaking, I do think the books are well-written, but they definitely suffer from trope-ish tone in places, and (in the latter books especially) the editing could've been a lot tighter. For people who say he's lovely, I wonder what their expectations were. For people who think he's the best ever, I wonder what else they've read. For goons, I assume the worst on both fronts simultaneously.
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I think that he probably has a wandering accent, but it does post hoc fit in with the character's rapid changes in location, station, and conceit. Given all that, it seems an awful petty thing to harp on about as much as gets done, though I'm sure I'd care much more if any of his accents were 'local'. It's a bit like GW Bush going from upperclassy-erudite Texan to slow drawl Alabaman between Texas governorship and a presidential election. Yet, even that comparison fits somehow?
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