Books for nerds

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Originally Posted by xKoopa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I feel like Brandon Sanderson is the only current author that's really good.

His efforts at completing Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan's untimely demise were an abomination. Those books were so horrible I can't bring myself to give his stuff a chance.

As for comparing Martin to Tolkien, yeah it's definitely not for the short attention span. Martin's work is so dense it has spawned an entire youtube subculture of content creators trying to string together predictions from the thousands of clues Martin embeds to misdirect the reader.

Tolkien was a christian and presented a stratified world where good and evil were racial characteristics. Martin is an atheist who presents a much more bleak view of the human condition where morality is far more ambiguous. In his other work, Martin has made clear that he set out to deconstruct Tolkien's simplistic views of morality.