ASOIAF is like a pyramid scheme of enjoyment.
You get in, slowly get frustrated as you understand that you won’t see the end, accept it, then you get to enjoy the next generation slowly getting frustrated.
We don’t have an ending, but we have this.
Not really hoarding, but…
There are some textbooks and classes out there that people in the profession define as incredibly elegant/able to provide the reader with intuitive understanding of the material, and making the hard feel easy.
Feynmann is usually talked about this way in physics, the youtuber 3blue1brown specialises in doing that for math, and so on.
Whenever I find out about those people I always get the book/course even if it’s totally out of my field, because I love the process of learning and great teachers are so hard to come by: Mayzelis’ Soviet Chess Primer, Nicolaides’ The Natural Way To Draw, Silvanus’ Calculus Made Easy, and so on.
Isn’t it? I’m currently reading the saga and I would easily put the first book in the same category as the hunger games, and in fact the marketing blurb in my edition mentions both hunger games and enders game.
I’m told the rest of the series evolves into a more adult feeling in later books, but I definitely got some shonen manga / teenage adventure vibes from the first one - not that I don’t like it, I bought it expecting exactly that.