What are the problems with the "A song of ice and fire" series?

[TheSummoner]

You make two rather blunt assumptions in that sentence:

1- That the Twilight fandom only extend to hormonal, pubescent teenage girl. That is a rather strawman narrowing of one's audience, and a wrong one as that. I know plenty of 20s-30s women who love Twilight as well. Should we lump them into the hormonal group?

2- You imply anybody who can pick up a pen could inspire emotions into hormonal, prubescent teenage girls. That is rather dismissive of the competition already exists for that lucrative market. Point is: it is not that easy. Some people fail to event make a dent in that litterature genre, and then underplay their failure by underplaying other people's success.

The only assumptions I make are

1) The primary demographic for Twilight is hormonal, pubescent teenage girls. They may not the only group, but they are the largest.

2) That hormonal, pubescent teenage girls tend to be more prone to emotional extremes than pretty much any other demographic.

Neither is unreasonable.

While this is a good discussion, perhaps it migh be better off in a twilight related thread? Or you can turn it back on OP to Song of Ice and Fire. Either way. <3

Yes, let's do that please.

Because that wasn't Robert's style. He wasn't Lannister.

Indeed. Robert was very much a man who wanted to be loved. Loved by his allies, loved by the common people, even loved by his enemies. He was the kind of man who liked to turn enemies into close allies and was very capable of doing it with most people. He was a piss-poor administrator, but he had a great talent for dealing with people.