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The love for ASoIaF makes me exceptionally happy. Unfortunately, that series and its awesomeness has just about ruined every other fantasy novel. For someone who writes fantasy, I tend to hate just about every series I read. xD
I agree with everything you just said. I find it nearly impossible to be affected by the "usual" fantasy novel shocker after the jarring events in A Storm of Swords. It's kind of hard to beat the tragedy that is the Stark family. Unfortunately, after A Feast for Crows, I worry that even GRRM will have difficulty topping that in the future.
I don't know, I actually read Feists Magician trilogy after reading ASoIaF and still enjoyed it thoroughly, although I guess it was sort of broken for me in that I kept expecting all the likeable characters to die, or get raped and kidnapped, or some sort of generally horrific thing happen to them. When things kept going well I was utterly lost and confused.