I thought I was going to stick with Jordan, but now he's sick, which will only add to the delay (I know, I know...it's all about
my inconvenience...) so, I'm about halfway through Game of Thrones.
Very good book. I like how it's centered (for the most part) around one big family. I don't really need to be in everybody's head, yes? It's more fun for me to read if I'm not privy to every motivation or thought.
The only problem I have with it...Well, sometimes I feel like quite the pervert. I mean, in one instance he describes a brother chastising his sister by twisting her nipples. In another he talks about the new Dothraki bride, Dany, having sex with her husband in the Dothraki style, which, Martin describes, is similar to herd animals. Later on he writes about Dany slipping off her robe and leading her new husband outside to have sex with him under the open sky.
All that is fine, but Martin goes to great lengths to explain that this girl is all of 14. So there I am reading this and trying not to imagine a big smelly warlord having sex with some young girl....a 14 year old girl.... from behind....which makes me feel like a great, big pervert.
It's a good read other than the uncomfortable shame....
