George R.R. Martin’s Reason Why Game of Thrones Books Are THAT Long Makes Sense

Summary:

• Throughout the years of its television run, Game of Thrones has welcomed millions of fans across the world into its fandom, though many of them were literally scared to turn to the show’s original source due to its immensity.
• George R.R. Martin has been frequently criticized for enlarging his already vast storyline with unnecessary details of events that had nothing to do with the plot.
• The author has recently struck back with a detailed explanation of why he’s always so attentive towards seemingly useless details.

Though he’s significantly late with the Game of Thrones’ last book installment, George R.R. Martin has so far given his fantasy world’s fans enough to be dwelling on, and it’s not about a number of books he already published.

With all of their several-pages-long affluent descriptions that sometimes seem a bit extra for just being the plot’s embellishment, Martin’s books have no real competitors when it comes to their impressive volume.

Despite many fans’ complaints about the irrelevance of so many details that the author needs to make a stop at, Martin doesn’t seem to be really bothered by his readers’ critics, though he now has a solid answer to the viral question.

In The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook, a brand new collection of recipes inspired by the famous fantasy franchise and published a couple of days ago, Martin uses the book’s foreword for providing a vast explanation of why he’s always been so meticulous about the food description in the Game of Thrones series.

Referring to the prolonged feast scenes being called “gratuitous” for years in the fandom, the author specifies that, though the word is usually used as a short version of “more than I wanted”, it was still necessary for him to be very specific about everything, even if it was a vast description of “the honey-roasted duck they [the characters] were eating” while discussing something plot-changing during the feast.

Martin then continues saying that for him personally it’s the whole journey that matters as much as the final destination.

According to the author, for all his life he’s been a “voracious reader”, a reader of fiction in particular, which showed him long time ago that the story someone wants to tell isn’t only about “getting from point A to point B as fast as possible”, but rather about educating the reader through the details that this journey consists of.

The book’s foreword arcs itself with Martin’s confession that what he wants the most from his readers is to “live with my story, not just read it. When they sit down at my table, I want them to taste the food”.

Source: Polygon