Quote:I disagree that it's crap, but it's definitely not the best thing he's done.
I just absolutely loath the stuff he's written in the past few years. "Song of Ice and Fire" is crap.
I think what happened is that when he got tired of Hollywood he noticed that huge bricks of high fantasy were selling really well, and that he could do it better than Robert Jordan or Terry Goodkind (this isn't hard).
His earlier novels are significantly better, and are now apparently coming back into print. And Wild Cards was a lot of fun.
(Wild Cards trivia note: the Turtle's public housing apartment in Bayonne, New Jersey, was in fact the apartment in which GRRM grew up.)