![]() Overview. For the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO’s Game of Thrones are together in one eBook bundle. A Game of Thrones AudioBook. The first book in the epic fantasy series entitled A Song of Ice & Fire by American. asking Eddard Stark to become his second in. A fansite about everything related to A Game of Thrones: Book. Game of Thrones Games. The Board Game Grab the. the recap of the sixth episode of the second. The first book, ‘A Game of Thrones,’ was first released in 1996. A Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin. The tradition continues on to the second book. A Game of Thrones Audio. Book. The story starts out from the point of view of one of the major houses in the series, that of Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell. ![]() ![]() The House of Stark, whose sigil is the dire wolf, is in charge of the kingdom’s Northern border and are the designated guardians of The Wall- literally a giant man- made structure that protects them from the savages of the north. Eddard is depicted as a serious yet extremely honorable man who happens to be the best friend of the reigning King, Robert Baratheon. Robert Baratheon whose house is situated at Storm’s End and has for its sigil a crowned stag, took the throne from the “Mad King” Aerys Targaryen II in what is called as The War of the Usurper. Robert is described as a once formidable warrior who has grown too accustomed to the life of the King. His apparent disinterest to ruling was brought about by the murder of his true love Lyanna by Rhaegar Targaryen, the son of Aerys II. This travesty was the reason why Robert rose up in arms against the Mad King and eventually took the throne for himself. Lyanna as it would turn out, was Lord Eddard Stark’s sister. Eventually, Robert married Cersei of House Lannister, whose father Tywinn, was the former Hand of the King and is considered to be the richest man in all of the Seven Kingdoms. It was more of a political move to consolidate the military strength of Robert with the economical one of the Lannisters. The story opens with Robert, who is already King by this time, asking Eddard Stark to become his second in command. This was brought about by the recent death of the former Hand of the King, John Arryn, who was also the adoptive father to both Eddard and Robert. Lord Stark reluctantly agrees to his new assignment and proceeds to move to the capital, Kings Landing. It is here where the plot thickens as the politics begin to play out amongst the major characters who all want to consolidate the power and take the throne for themselves. A Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin book review. Reader reviews. Have your say. ![]() Lawrence von Kyleman from Prussia. HBO show is far superior to the books simply because it seems as though Martin always intended for his series to be made into a visual form. How else do you explain the long drawn out descriptions of small inconsequential bull which is so frequently used. I can't imagine how the narrators for the audio- books could keep themselves from falling asleep. I bet editing and adapting this drivel for TV must be a pain though. I imagine the writers pouring over the books cutting out the descriptions of stupid crud, useless subplots, and fixing this fat dbags overall bland and plot- hole ridden narrative. I'd geuss they use about 4. I think HBO did an amazing job with this show, and I wish they came up with it themselves so they didn't have to pay some lazy, fat, old man to go through his thousands of pages worth of vapid, drawn- out, poorly executed, novels laden with what I can only assume are his sexual fantasies. Sundar from Lal. This book, and the other books published of the series, are as impressive and amazing piece of literature. The characters in the story are superb. I read these book and absolutely had to recommend them to every book buddy. Decimus from Canada. Some people believe that it is justifiable write reviews for the entire series on the page for the first book. I personally find it interesting, as though many people decided that they would attempt to warn others of the series inevitable decline in the reviews of the first book. As if to say “Don’t even start reading these books”. I would have to agree with this line of thinking sadly enough as, like many others I find that the series is excellent at first with many strong points to be found in the first few books, however the strength of the plot wanes once the fourth book starts, and the quality of the books becomes more diluted once the fifth is reached. The series can still be saved, but with no release date as of yet for the sixth book, with the seventh and final volume most likely being another five to six years after. The more dedicated fans will be forced to wait in quiet agony hoping Martin does not pass away before the ending is finished. As far as the problems I have with the books, I will try to keep them short and simple for the purpose of the review. First, the people who we are supposed to sympathize with (Starks) are all morons. Eddard is a moron for announcing his intentions to Cersei, Robb and Catelyn are morons for siding with Renly over Stannis (the rightful king) and going to the home of a man known to break oaths. Arya just fucked off to bumfud nowhere and lost all connection to the actual story, Bran and Rickon are just boring, and Sansa, Do I really need to describe how having a character pretty much be everyone’s pawn for the majority of the series is boring and was never once interesting. Second, The amount of useless POV and descriptions of superfluous crap gets really bad later on with the amount of POV increasing with each book for no reason other than Martin can’t think of any other way to pad the books. Finally, the use of Deus ex Machina, its everywhere. From no one noticing that Joffrey and his sibling’s look nothing like Baratheon’s to the lazy use of prophecy giving the excuse for a ton of it to happen for no reason in particular. The use of prophecy is really the only thing that I believe Martin to have done very lazily, sure we don’t know who the Jebus of Westeros is yet, but using it is just so cliché for fantasy to include some sort of messianic figure it’s not even funny. In short I like the books enough for what they are but the issues I have with the characters and inclusion of poorly written Deus ex Machina story coincidences is too great to ignore. Bruno from Brazil. I would just like to say that I really wanted to like this book. I read about 5. 00 pages and the story moves forward at such a slow pace that I couldn't bother reading further. Every event feels like an obvious plot device, there is no culture, characters have no personality and no charisma whatsoever, there are too many storylines happening at the same time and none of them are in the least interesting, because the novel is structured in a way that when you start developing the slightest bit of sympathy towards a certain character the author ends the chapter, and the next chapter focuses on a completely different story arc with a different set of characters, much like the scenes in a soap opera. There's no fantasy in this first volume of Go. T except for dragon eggs, zombies, and swords with hilarious names. Don't waste your time on this. Peter from Netherlands. Perhaps the literary con- job of the century. Mediocre unoriginal writing that sets up a myriad of random story lines and finishes none. Many people mistake this lazy haphazardly way of writing with the world being rich and the characters realistic, but is simply is a cheap trick invoked by a writer who probably has no idea how he's going to wrap everything up properly, not that this is a problem for him in the future. I find it amazing how this parlor trick convinced so many people to run with this drivel, but that's the internet age for you. Perhaps that is why he dislikes fanfic so much, knowing that his pulp isn't that far above the average slash nonsense. If you want mindless entertainment, see the show and read a good book, not this Mac. Donalds fantasy wannabe. Jarek from Usa. I would like to start by saying that the fanboys ruined the series for me. You know who I am talking about. The people who belive that the books are absolutely perfect and the author is a god among men who we shall bow down to. As for the books, I find that they start off fine, but somewhere down the line I believe that Martin has too much to focus on due to multiple characters and storylines needing to be written across varied locations spanning continents. There really is too much to focus on for any writer, but then add in the obsessive amount of detail and its no wonder the books lose quality as they go on. I believe what Martin should have done is kept things simple, one characters point of view and get straight into winter rather than letting the main issue wait for 5 books at 1. It really is more like we got to a party too soon while the decorations are still being set up for the main event. The books are mediocre at best, I believe that a vast majority of the people who claim to be fans of this series only read it because of the show and were sorely disapointed. Mike from South Wales. Maybe you have to be a certain type to enjoy this particular genre of book? It certainly did nothing whatsoever for me. I find that if the first ten pages or so do not grab my attention then that is it. This was certainly the case with Game of Thrones. Sorry but I just do not see the attraction. It was the most boring, long drawn out 4 chapters that I have ever read in my life and I will not be attempting to read anymore of it. Erik from Germany. I have a few problems with these books, first is the borderline obsessive detail, the amount of detail GRRM puts into these books prohibits you from seeing the world as you want to see it and limits you to the author's view. The main problem for me however, is the multiple characters I do not care about at all. So far after 5 books, only three really interest me, Tyrion, Jon, and Daenerys. I really do not care what happens to anyone else at all. The rest of the Starks and Lannisters could kill each other off for all I care. At this point I just read the chapters concerning those three and read summaries for everyone else. Rebekah from New Zealand. This thick, material crammed book is written so brilliantly that it is impossible for one to get bored whilst reading. I enjoy the fact that everyone is somehow connected in the story, no matter how far away they all seem from each other. What additionally made this novel awesome was that at each end of chapters, GRRM would leave a cliff- hangar, forcing you to read on till it's 3: 3. I would rate this book 1. I could. 2. 01. 5- 0. Ron from Canada. Reading this series has been just slowly watching anyone with any sort of morals die off. It grows very tiresome very fast, at this point nothing could get me to continue reading what has become a series devoid of any characters I can sympathize with. I'll read a synopsis when it ends just so I know how GRRM will finally kill this series. Of course part of me also wishes GRRM will die before he finishes so the people who think this series is better than Tolkien's work will never get an ending. Ewan from Scotland. This book was the first book I finished on my own and not being forced (English in school). This book is so good that it made me, someone who would never even try a book. Get into reading, you know it's good. Toland from Scotland. This is really the only series I will never bother to finish. After reading through the first few books of this supposedly fantasy series I have to wonder where the fantasy is. All I found was some bs about winter coming which wore down my patience so fast along with the overdone descriptions. A fantasy novel is supposed to be unrealistic, Martin's books are realistic and therefore are not fantasy, more like alternate/parallel history. I believe at this point the success of the books more or less piggyback on the accesability of the tv show. This is the only explanation I can find for the series success. Victor from Canada. I suppose that today's popularity of this book series comes directly from the HBO show. The popularity of this TV show, on its part, comes from the realities that there are not many "medieval - fantasy" type of shows on today's television. Therefore, when you don't have enough fish in the lake, every more or less decent crucian would be considered to be a local whale and a shark altogether. The book is overrated. The narration is flat and colorblind.
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