Posted: Sep 30, 2015 8:37 pm
Coastal wrote:Thommo wrote:Coastal wrote:Don't be dissin' Robert Jordan now. I guess it had a lot to do with my state of mind when I read it. I really needed something like that at the time.
My brother absolutely fucking loves him to be fair. I can see what people like - the wide sweeping world, grand vision and epic plot. But he surely doesn't do characters (and let's be fair, mostly female characters) even one hundredth as well as George Martin.
It's more of a teenage or young adult narrative - very prim and proper at times and innocent. George Martin is all about shock value and guts, but yes, much better characterisation.
This is exactly why I'd say Bakker's books are great: they really plunge headlong into absolute slime! They could easily come with an age-rating.
Example: a race of creatures which wear the skins of people like to make incisions into the flesh of their victims to rape the slits.