portions in the fourth and maybe fifth books are when reading the books became a complete and utter chore. So unbearable and torturous to read, which I think is mainly why I have a very limited memory of what went down in the written material. As poor as this season has been so far, it looks as if the show runners agree since the Sand Snakes have been largely ignored, at least to the extent they were written in the fourth book. I think they were in the fifth book heavily, but I could be wrong because I truly have no deep memory of the last two books.

I wonder what Martin thinks about their omission.