Martin (George RR)
His big fantasy series. Very similar to Robin Hobb. Impressively large medieval world that's ultimately just a bunch of people running here and there, killing one another, betraying one another. Annoyingly jumps from scene to scene, usually at the good part. The pages keep turning because there's so much injustice you want to see amended. Also again with the dragons brought back into the world.

The characters are simplified from the real such that they're an escape. The actual setting is nothing special. The plot is just about random and I suspect he's didn't do an outline all the way to the end. Which may explain why Martin only wrote three books and took way too long to go further. And he's in his 60's now and quite fat. Extremely unlikely he'll finish. And with all the cliffhangers he's left, I really wouldn't recommend reading him at all.