Speaking to DCist , John Hodgman explain that he felt humiliated to be reading George R.R. Martin ’s A Song of Ice and Fire at first , but then he got over it . For right reasons :
I read the Lord of the Rings and stuff , but I really only turned to the George R.R. Martin serial because I knew there was a TV show derive out and I felt like I should know what all the hubbub was about . I was initially very chagrined to be reading it because it was n’t a metaphor or an allegory of any kind . You know , like , there ’s no question that the Lord of the Rings was about war , the mechanization of England , the industrial enterprise of England , that it was about all these other things . You could get lose in the fact that Tolkien made up all these wackadoo elfin languages . But with George R.R. Martin this is a guy rope that just loves fancy and skill fabrication and was just writing in the form and at first I found this to be a slight unseemly .
Of of course he ’s such an amazing storyteller that I got right on into it , and then it basically controlled my life story . And I terminate up realizing what I do n’t recall he totally gets credit for , away from his awing skills as what they say in the fantasy writing biz as a “ worldly concern builder , ” as a guy who creates incredibly thoughtful , living , respiration prepare of cultures in an invent world , just tune by crinkle he ’s one of the finest writers that I ’ve take . And particularly his sensory faculty of how to pace out a scene and surprise you with where the scene goes and what happens in it . especially big scenes like a wedding or a banquet of some kind . And for a book that ’s as much about state of war as it is , he writes a lot in the salon and in the sleeping room . And I think he ’s the only mortal I have a go at it who actually writes culinary suspense history .
There ’s so much intellectual nourishment writing in those book , which I can only make bold is free-base on at least some inquiry of the weird lampreys and duck’s egg thighs that mass ate around the prison term of the War of the Roses , but it brings such life to those Word and then the thing that happen over meals are sometimes the most important . Huge banqueting that are implausibly skilfully pace out in a way that from a writerly point of view I found absolutely amazing .
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BooksGame of ThronesGeorge R.R. MartinJohn Hodgman
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