Tolkien may have his flaws but GRRM is far worse. I'm three books into GoT now and although I ate through the first one quickly, the others are slow going. At least JRRT used some interesting sentence structure from time to time whilst discussing elven rope, GRRM writes like he's still in high school, complete with silly sex fantasies and the dreadfully long process of getting to know the more uninteresting characters that are created to replace the ones he's killed.

When anything interesting happens it occurs in about two sentences, so that you almost have to reread it to make sure you've read it correctly.

And Elin, you don't count, you hate English~