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		pfg on April 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'll never work on First-Person Shooters again Totally agree. This is what I keep telling people whenever they moan about Game Of Thrones/A Song Of Ice And Fire being porn and/or too violent.

michaelochurch on April 20, 2013 | [–]

Excellent point. Those books also get into a lot of detail about medieval food and clothing. He's just very detailed and realistic. (I almost think of IaF as magical realism, not fantasy.)

Snoptic on April 22, 2013 | [–]

The TV show does have meaningless porn dumped on top to keep the audience interested. That is HBO's trademark.

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