GoT Book Reader's Thread - All Spoilers Welcome!

[Aroura]

Sorry but what are the WoT books?

Oh, Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.  He kind of pulled this same crap.  His first 5 books (well, I think 6, but most people will say 5) were tight, great books, then he started meandering around, adding characters and subplots. He should have started tying it up there, and finished by book 8 or 9, but nooooo.
I distinctly remember when the 8th book came out, it was called Path of Daggers, and my friends and I took to calling it Path of Prologues because it was like 900 pages of, what felt like prologues.  No one actually accomplished anything, the plot didn't advance in any significant way for such a massive tome.

Fans begged Jordan to finish up the series.  Then he got cancer, and passed on how the books were to end to his wife and son. After Jordan died, they hired Brandon Sanderson to finish the series. (I am sad for his passing in and of itself by the way, sorry if I sound like I only care if he finished his book series or not).

Sanderson finished the final 3 books, and some of it was super frustrating because he wasn't the original author, and you could tell.  One of the best characters (Mat, a roguish young man with subtle humor and a very intricate story arc) was just butchered by Sanderson.  And he wasn't the only one.  Many characters were reduced to being very one dimensional by the end.

 It's a lot like what is going on with GoT's though, because Martins fist 3 books were great, then they got too broad, but not any deeper. He also isn't finishing his own work, but basically letting someone else do it, in this case a TV show.  He isn't dead, or dying really, but he might very well die before finishing the books.

So....I hope you can see the comparison there.  I was a HUGE Wheel of Time fan, and although I'm happy the books were finished, it wasn't in the way they should have been.  The same thing is happening here.  I kind of feel like I should put the books and what it is in them away, in my head at least, and just accept the TV show version and be happy that it exists at all, or else I'll be setting myself up for more major disappointment.