I just finished the first book and I have been watching the series nonstop for about a week. I have to say that even though I know what is going to happen in the book that I still couldn't put it down. R.R Martin will make you stay up until the wee hours of the morning just to 'finish this next chapter'. It is a well written amazing adventure. I recommend reading it even though you have started to watch the series!tnc08 wrote:I wanted to read this series for a while now, but then I started watching the HBO series. I'm afraid reading the books would make me lose interest in one or the other
A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
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As with the HBO series, I am also a fan. However, not so much of the changes that they’ve made, especially in the latest season. I would still continue watching though
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bethany_vanwaes wrote:In another realm, there is a land referred to as the Seven Kingdoms. Some years ago, there was a battle with the Mad King, resulting in an end to his reign and the beginning of the reign of the common folk, led by Robert Baratheon, who used his war hammer to take power. After his right hand man dies, he goes in search of his best friend and his close friend in war, Eddard Stark, to make him be the "Hand of the King," a position of great power and great responsibility. Eddard's arrival to the city of King's Landing leads to questions that may cause more trouble than he is aware of.
Simultaneously, Varys Targaryen and his young sister, Daenerys, children of the defeated Mad King, live on the other side of the Narrow Sea, hoping to gather the power to take back the throne that is rightfully theirs. Varys hatches a plan to acquire troops by marrying off his sister to the fierce Khal Drogo, a man who has thousands of men at his fingertips, but is a rough human being who is often seen, like most of his people, as nothing more than a savage.
This series is often compared with The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien, but I can see almost no reason for why people state that the two are similar. To me, they are entirely different. Both stories are excellent, but George RR Martin's tale of the Seven Kingdoms is much more straightforward than Tolkien's. By no means am I saying that JRR Tolkien was not a master at his craft, but rather that there is something about Martin's writing that keeps my nose glued in the book until I have finished.
This book is worth the read. There is often a complaint about how the show has a lot of nudity and sex, but do not let that stop you from reading the novels. The novels, although they do have some inappropriate content, are much more than erotica written by someone who was bored and sexually aroused. This novel is a masterpiece and, as all books, should be given a chance rather than being judged based on its cover.
Okay, so George R.R. Martin is an engaging and descriptive writer who plunges the reader into a vivid and involved political intrigue -and there are dragons. But can you really compare him to Tolkien? I just don't think that they're on the same level as far as symbolism, character development and emotional depth. Martin is a talented wordsmith but he's got too much going on plot-wise to create the same type of continuity and epic narrative evolution. Plus Gollum.
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The first season of Game of Thrones is very similar to the book, therefore there is a risk you might lose interest, however the second book onwards things are slightly different in the book due to the addition of new characters which dont appear in the tv series to maintain plot simplicity.tnc08 wrote:I wanted to read this series for a while now, but then I started watching the HBO series. I'm afraid reading the books would make me lose interest in one or the other
The more you progress through the book series, the more changes occur, so that by the time you read the most recent book, you wonder how the tv show can get by with such detrimental characters missing from the book series.
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i am currently reading this book and i am astounded, how did this book get so popular?
it might be the depravity that is frequent with most of the fantasy books that i have read. it just is horrid i think.
i mean it is definitely readable and i enjoy the wonderfully crafted tale that is bound to unfold from the rest of the series
(i got the set box of the whole series and i plan on reading them later on throughout the year.)
but do you think that it was because of the show that the books made as big of a splash as they did, or do you think that it was the community that followed the books before that show got made?
comments and opinions welcome.
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ptrish26 wrote:In order to fully enjoy a book series and the tv show/movie, you really need to learn to separate the two. They will never be exact and all of it is meant to tease your imagination. That being said, Game of Thrones did a great job following the books even though they use some of their own ideas or mix books together. Still a fantastic show.
I agree says Vermont Reviews
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I don't think GRR Martin is like Tolkien at all. First of all, Tolkien likes nice and fuzzy happy endings where the good guys beat the bad guys. GRRM doesn't like pure good or bad characters, which is part of the appeal for me, I love the grey characters where you hate and love them.
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