re: Game of Thrones Re-Read/Re-Watch Project (Multiple Book Spoilers)

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Unreliable narrators FTW!

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Probably the greatest thing about the way this story is told. You can't accept anything as fact until you hear it told by multiple people, just like the real world. Everyone has their own side of the story that suits them, just like the real world.


GRRM's greatest accomplishment is his mind numbing ability to take a fantastical tale and tell it through the POVs of multiple extremely realistic characters.

The traditional fantasy hero doesn't exist in this story, every one of the people who would have fallen into that category (Rhaegar, Arthur Dayne, Gerold Hightower etc etc) died at least a decade before the real story started. Thats impressive as frick imo.