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<dd><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>From:</b> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
<danldo@gmail.com><br>
<dd>To:</b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:19 PM<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: (urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and
Fire<br>
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<dd>I'll also speak out in favor of Martin -- he wrote what I consider
to<br>
<dd>be THE best rock'n'roll novel of all time, THE ARMAGEDDON RAG.
The<br>
<dd>ASOIAF books, to my mind, are brutally honest depictions of the
kind<br>
<dd>of society that generic fantasy readers & writers like to,
well,<br>
<dd>fantasize about.<br><br>
<dd>The Society for Creative Anachronism likes to say that it
recreates<br>
<dd>"the middle ages as they should have been." Martin
describes a<br>
<dd>medieval fantasy world as it really would have been.</blockquote>
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Well, but without the Church and Christianity. So it's not actually
medieval at all.<br><br>
JBJordan<br><br>
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