The Old Bleak

[mindstalk]

Who's more depressing, GRRM or Robin Hobb?

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[pandawife-a.livejournal.com]

Martin, by roughly infinite miles. Though I must say, I am pleased that Martin doesn't shy away from the atrocities perpetrated, in wars or by evil people. Makes it wholesomely realistic, in an extremely depressing way.

Hobb can be sad-making, but there always seems to be something forgiving, or redeeming, the sad situation.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

The description of Martin made me think of someone else, though I forget whom. Not Glen Cook, who does mention it in having his narrator acknowledge that he mostly doesn't mention what his mercenary brethren get up to. Though there's a rescue from what the other side -- sort of -- is doing.

Oh! 1632. West Virginia town catapulted into the Thirty Years War. Beginning is fairly graphic in what the locals are doing, or willing to do. So far the Americans are taking the high road.