When someone says 'genius', the first person I immediately think of is George R.R. Martin. After reading all of ASOIAF and hearing summaries and analysis of his other works, i genuinely believe the man is a literary genius. His ability to craft dramatic yet intellectually provocative stories, on such absurd grand scales, by himself, is rivaled only by Masamune Shirow's work with ghost in the shell. Like seriously guys, I can't even imagine how he's able to keep track of his thousands of characters and their family histories and the world lore without getting himself mixed up. To put this into perspective, people who have read all of ASOIAF generally agree that the TV series started off as an excellent adaptation of the books but has vastly decreased in quality as of late. Basically after they ran out of book material to adapt, the creative efforts of an entire team of HBO writers could not equal a single GRRM at storytelling. Pretty impressive.Please understand i'm not calling GRRM a genius bc he's a famous author, but because the scope of his work is truly that impressive. I'm a very critical person when it comes to impressive works and I can say I genuinely believe GRRM's story crafting abilities is above virtually every other author i've come across up until this point. Yes Shakespeare's work was groundbreaking but do you honestly believe he could have told a story on a scale of GRRM's? Yes Leonardo Di Vinci was a brilliant inventor and painter and scholar but did he ever invent anything as world changing as Thomas Edison's light bulb or Alexander Graham Bell's telephone? Do you really think his paintings were as impressive as Jan Weenix or Paolo De Matteis ? Are Edgar Allen Poe's works truly that more frightening than the best horror produced today? Do you think men like these are remembered because they were really that much better than everyone else? Or were they just the first to do what they did at such a high level? It really makes you wonder...The best part about geniuses is they propel society forward by raising the bar of excellence. As time passes on, humans will evolve to meets those bars and raise them even higher. We don't call our contemporary great works revolutionary because it hasn't become history yet. Its not until we look back in time and acknowledge their achievements when compared to their peers that we finally give them credit, like the artist and poet who don't become famous until after he dies. I believe there are many incredibly talented people in the world who will never be known because of, like you said, not having the right connections or motivation to make themselves known. All it takes is the will to bring your genius to the public. GRRM did so and something tells me if ASOIAF were written a couple centuries earlier, they'd be studied in literature classes today.
>>24829747>After reading all of ASOIAFAll of ASOIAF doesn't exist yet, so the Redditor who wrote this is incorrect.
>>24829747He's such a genius he wrote himself into the most boring corner he could.
Dubs and he dies within 6 months2rtmm4
>>24829747he wrote himself into a corner and now he can't untangle all the plotlines he weaved. He should have been humble and follow his original plan of 3 books
>>24829747This but unironically
>>24829747He is a genius when writting fantasy but a simpleton on the historical (realistic) side.
>>24831164It's annoying when reddit pedants fixate on that bullshit. "Hurrr muh rivurs!", "It wasn't like that in europe!", "Seasons can't be that long in real life!" It gets bad enough to a point where they chew him out for not making an EXACT copy of medieval europe. As if he had to forgo any and ALL creativity and original story telling to please some autismo spergs who are better suited to reading non-fiction. I'm not trying to make excuses for stuff he gets wrong, but some people take it far.
>>24829793Trips and he's raped to death by niggers
>>24829747Epic b8 anon, but you forgot to mention Tolkien.
>>24829747>how he's able to keep track of his thousands of characters ... without getting himself mixed up.Uh, anon, I ...
>>24831482trips and he finishes asoiaf
>>24831504>literal 1 in 1,000 chanceWay too optimistic.
>>24829793He will die in 2027, TWoW will be released posthumously
>>24829747Not fit to clean Howard’s shoes
>>24829747>Like seriously guys, I can't even imagine how he's able to keep track of his thousands of characters and their family historiesHe can't. We haven't gotten a new book in close to 15 years now
>>24829793Come on, man. That's not nice. He's still got like 5 HBO side projects that will totally not be butchered of their source material
