EXACTLY
I probably wouldn't have complained about the descriptions if he had described the scenery AND had the characters do stuff, and not cut off the good parts just when they get started. I also would have been ok with inner book cliffhangers if they were picked up the next time we returned to the POV, but he always skipped past that bit and went on with some other stuff we already KNEW. Thousands of pages went by, and I knew what Dany's world looked like, but she never did anything. It's like most of the characters were trapped in time. I guess that is why GRRM was having so much trouble with getting this book out, he couldn't figure out how to get the characters to the next step OR SOMETHIGN.
I probably wouldn't have complained about the descriptions if he had described the scenery AND had the characters do stuff, and not cut off the good parts just when they get started. I also would have been ok with inner book cliffhangers if they were picked up the next time we returned to the POV, but he always skipped past that bit and went on with some other stuff we already KNEW. Thousands of pages went by, and I knew what Dany's world looked like, but she never did anything. It's like most of the characters were trapped in time. I guess that is why GRRM was having so much trouble with getting this book out, he couldn't figure out how to get the characters to the next step OR SOMETHIGN.