I've finished all five books. Great stuff overall, although the quality dropped off significantly after A Storm of Swords. I found much of A Feast for Crows to be irrelevant, particularly the Brienne chapters. I suspect that much of that will be eliminated for the TV series. (I have only watched the pilot episode.) The pacing in the last novel slowed considerably, and this more than anything makes me wonder how Martin will finish the series in two books. The number of POV characters expanded pretty much with every book, leaving the series with about ten plots running by the end.
My big fear is that by the time the next novel is published, I will have forgotten what's going on. And I don't want to have to reread the entire series, although I suspect many readers will, and maybe I will try.
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