I’ve read thousands of books, and this is the only one that was so awful I couldn’t finish it. It wasn’t even the ideas - hell, I have read mein Kampf and the fucking phone book. It was so poorly written is was unbearable.

My second worst would be Kushiel’s Dart. Absolute garbage.

I imagine some scene where GRRM is on his deathbed and all his would be successors gather around him. “Lord, who will inherit your quagmire?” “…to the person who waits the longest!” And the writers look at each other, and the Long Night beings.