Need Help Picking a Book

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George R. R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series

I was considering suggesting this series, but decided against it. I for one am loosing track of what happened in the most recent book while waiting for the next one which is now, what, 4 years overdue ? I think the world is coming to an end from no less than three directions, right?

I'm also not sure it would be particularly satisfying if MEAT is looking for somthing in which "peoples actions have serious consequences." To the best of my memory the consequences of action are most often death, death, omen of revenge in your future, death, betrayal, usurpery, death, death, death, and death. Serious though those consequences may be, the prediction of a character's future upon their introduction is not whether they wil survive, or will they turn on their fellows, it's how many will they betray, and who will be holding the dagger that's cuddling their kidney.

Not that the books are a bad read. I just think that MEAT may be looking for something a bit different.

I was going to post recommending Song of Fire and Ice and so figured I'd comment on this too. Despite recommending it to Meat (and I do think he would like and enjoy it), I don't disagree with Maitre. The series almost has the opposite problem of the Deathgate series. Deathgate is too fun and simple. It's frivolous and I tended to read it with a not taking itself too serious kind of vibe. Song of Fire and Ice on the other hand takes itself too serious. To the degree that the conspiring, backstabbing, and general killing takes too prominent of a role. It doesn't want to make any one character the main special/protected character and as such goes the other way and makes everyone expendable. Despite all of that though, I do think it is worth reading. I thought this before it became hugely popular with the HBO show coming and I think it's popularly probably makes it even better to read now since it increases the odds of there being people to discuss it with.