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Loading... A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) (original 1996; edition 1997)by George R. R. Martin (Author)
Work InformationA Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (1996)
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Too much soap opera, not enough sword & sorcery for my taste. ( ) Really hard to decide how to rate this one. It was well written & quite gripping, but so bleak & so long & then the ending so much not a real ending. Characters that I got invested in were killed off--so very many people were killed off--or left totally hanging. And there were so many characters. Knowing how many more volumes there are in the series, I may just stop here. Re-read 2016, after watching the series. Made more sense and nice to picture the characters. Upped the rating. Despite evil seeming to overpower good more often than not & the intense violence (human and creature), the intrigues may have been enough to entice me to follow up with book II. (I have not seen the TV series and am not sure I could tolerate the violence that is bad enough in the audio format, in a visual one.) After a long time of laziness and denial, I finally got around to reading this supposed "best fantasy book ever", and I have to say that I'm not as blown away as I wish I could have been. It was well written, interesting, very readable, and definitely enjoyable, but I would not call it mind-blowing or a masterpiece by any means. In particular I found this book to be disappointing compared to my favorite fantasy novel Mistborn, mostly because I was unable to find any characters I truly loved. Martin's attempt to make every character's life precarious makes it hard to fall in love with any of them, and by the end of the book I realized that I no longer even liked any of them. Still, a powerful and very well-written book.
This is a perfect book. There's honestly nothing I can think of that could improve it in any way. This is a book that made me shout at it, that made me giggle and cry, that made me gasp, that made me tremble and hate and love. It's seamless; I'd say it's unputdownable, except that sometimes I found I desperately needed to put it down because I was overwhelmed with the wonder of it, only to pick it up again half an hour later. Belongs to SeriesIs contained inA Song of Ice and Fire 1-4: A Game of Thrones / Clash of Kings / A Storm of Swords / A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin ContainsHas the adaptationInspiredHas as a supplementAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES??THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King??s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert??s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse??unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen??s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister??the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki??whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innoc No library descriptions found. |
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