I understand. Its endless dialogues punctuated by series of hyper violent and fantastical events is not for everyone. As a long time original reader of the books (which is a far richer experience) I love its basic conceit that there are three vantages of power. Knowledge is power, power is an illusion (it exists were people believe it exists), and power is power, and how they are played out in endless variations. How we at all levels are affected by those who vie within the rules of the Game(s) whether we play or not, whether we accept those rules or not, with or without our knowledge. How the thirst for power differs from politics, and of course how the quest for power is the death of all innocence, how it burns through ignorance, how it burns through everything with a singular vengeance. According to GRRM the real secret is flexibility and the willingness to use any and all three in combination to achieve your goal(s). His books then become an indictment not only of the European feudal system, but of our own democratic caucus/electoral political stumping ideal.
But that's just my opinion.
