Now I Know I'm Being to Persnickety

I no longer know if I'm being too judgmental, or if I'm expecting too much from Martin.

One aspect of writing that I've heard is very hard is the ability to describe scene and setting from different character's points of view. For the most part Martin does this well. His books are built on multiple POV's. From Jaime, to Tyrion, to Jon and on and on and on. Each chapter is a different character's tale told from their viewpoint to make a larger tapestry. The past few posts have been about how confused I am by different characters have been using the same turns of phrase.

It happened again. One of the best transitions Martin has made in this story is when he tells Theon Greyjoy's story. Theon is in a horrible situation, slowly being flayed alive, being abused and tortured, and generally dying slowly at the hands of Ramsay Bolton. When I read Theon's chapters I feel depressed and downtrodden along with him. The things he sees and describes are directly related to his feeling and what he's experiencing.

Well, I got to Jaime's chapter (the first in this book) and stopped at one line of description. I stopped cause I realized that the character that Martin had developed would never describe something the way that Jaime describes it. He's looking at a tree's root system and compare it to veins on a crones legs. Sorry, not buying it.

There are many other characters who I believe would use this turn of phrase to describe the tree, but the wandering, somewhat vanquished, devil-may-care Jaime? Sorry.

Just one more to pile upon the heap. I'm looking forward to rereading the series next year to see if I have the same impression or if this is just this book.