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If he wants these books to have muh realism, why isn't he writing supplementary material in the form of on-universe cookbooks, sociology books, economic books, political books, and the like?

>> No.10223558

Because Martin is the genreshit writer equivalent to a pseud

Everything you could want from ASoIaF is better and briefer supplied by the Iliad, everything from the (little of the) sex and the gore and the battle and the exhibition of human emotion in 1000000000000000000000% more kino form

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>>10223544
>>10223558
> on-universe cookbooks, sociology books, economic books, political books, and the like
> Because Martin is the genreshit writer equivalent to a pseud

>> No.10223720

>>10223544
>cookbooks
People praise his descriptions of meals, but they're not even that interesting. He seems to think Medieval nobles ate nothing but roast meat and capons, which couldn't be further from the truth. He could have so much fun describing quirky Medieval dishes that we in the 21st century would find weird, but he doesn't. The only actually interesting and obscure dish he describes iirc is blandissory.

Brian Jacques, a literal children's author who writes about talking mice, has a better grasp on Medieval food than GRRM.

>> No.10223725

>>10223544
Because he has too many other glaring problems to fix, like his lack of scale or consistency in worldbuilding.

Whatever that parody site was that re-did book titles had it right "Knights who say Fuck" sums up ASOIF perfectly.

>> No.10223735

>>10223725
This might be a far reach, but are there any books or papers on the history of swearing and what knights would've said in place of "fuck"? I'm legitimately curious.

>> No.10223736

>>10223544
>why isn't he writing supplementary material
Because he's a morbidly obese, dementia ridden, 70 year old who has taken it upon himself to #ImpeachThePeach. Quite honestly it'll be miracle if he scrounges together the wherewithal to finish his current book, let alone write books that aren't even part of the main series.