I read the first book and left it there. It wasn't exactly a smorgasbord of finely crafted sentences.
Martin's command of the language comes in on the Dan Brown to Joseph Conrad scale at about a Dean Koontz, sitting only a few places ahead of J. K. Rowling and a few below Stephen King. It's a bit of a Mario Puzo scenario in that the story has potential that the quality of the writing itself doesn't quite live up to, leaving it to the adaptation to deliver the goods.
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