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The show is excellent. I am actually going back and reading the series again as a refresher and it is almost like they use the books as the script for the show. I was very pleased to see the...
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A Song of Ice and Fire aka A Game of Thrones
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Thread created 06-01-2011 by decarillion
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Same set at Amazon: $19.77, FS w/Prime
If you want to immerse yourself further, have a look at these sites:
For first-time readers of the series, tor.com offers a two-chapter a week read-a-long...
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The books are fabulous. There are many characters and lands and relationships to master, but with maps and family trees and just enough exposition, the read becomes easy enough.
There's a lot of...
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Thread created 06-01-2011 by decarillion
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Here's a quick question. I can't stand the Lord of the Rings. It is too poetic and just so impossible to know who is who because all the names are screwy.
I finished those, but I had to FORCE...
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Very different stories. This one is based in a land similar to ours in medieval times. It is has a lot of focus on the character interactions and it isnt so easy to tell who is good and evil. ...
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looks dead
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Not hot anymore, but the price has risen, but now dropped to $19.99, with free shipping today...
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I totally agree with this point and I hate it...
But the thing with these 4 books is, from what I see on the pictures of the set, the box has shots from the movie but the books come with their...
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Check out the manga covers.
I read on Westeros that adding the HBO info/pix to the True Blood novels (Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris) increased sales of her books like mad, even to...
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There was some kind of an SD on the Sookie set (first six books), a couple of years ago, so I bought them. But, I have only read the first three books, each after the season was over. I think there...
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oh dont forget the incest
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Thread created 06-01-2011 by decarillion
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11 year old me who had just read A Game of Thrones heartily disagrees. :D
Amazing fantasy anthology, and surprisingly the HBO show is doing it a great justice.
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It's fluctuated to this price at Amazon.com for ages.
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After watching the show I really want to pick up this set. I'll make time for it someday when I'm done with some other books first.
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Rather just watch it on HBO. It's been great so far.
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Some others have already said it, but yes, the series is remarkably accurate. I'm not sure it could be done much better.
They obviously have to make some compromises. Some detail is lost, but...
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"There is one relationship in particular (not giving any spoilers) where they detail some things that didn't occur in (and I didn't really pick up from) the books"
I know which relationship you're...
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TU for an awesome series.
The fact that the HBO interpretation is actually pretty good is a plus too
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I've read that this series is somewhat inspired by Britain's War of the Roses.
I don't think this series moves/reads as slowly as LotR...
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I've only read the first book in the series and it was awhile back. I think the HBO series is doing an excellent job staying true to the book. I was wandering how they where going to pull it off...
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Nope I think he has 7 planned with the 5th due out this year. That is mainly why I never read past the 1st book. I like to read an entire series I don't like waiting a couple years for a plot to be...
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The books are great, but he releases them at a snail's pace. Hope he doesn't die before the story is done (boy, that sounded selfish). Either way, it's a good price for great reading. Has anyone...
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Wait..I enjoy the story and was willing to buy the book but are you telling me that the story doesn't end after the fourth book? I was hoping it was something like Terry Brooks series where each...
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Amazon's price dropped to its current $19.77, in mid-April. Prior to that, the price was higher--anywhere from $24-$27, going back to December.
All the young people's ages were pushed up for...
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Ditto.
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Nobody is named like... Bob, or Jim. Though there is a Jon. But for the most part the names are as you would expect from the time period. Please don't let that stop you from not checking out this...
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This is nothing like Lord of the Rings.
This is essentially a soap opera in a medieval/fantasy setting.
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Well Game of Thrones books seems like they increased quite a lot in sales after the series started as well...
I learned about the Sookie Stackhouse books only recently despite I watched all of...
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Yup. I'm slow. :) One of my friends who has been watching with me had missed it, too, so I didn't feel quite so dumb.
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Naw. There's just SO much going on, one doesn't have time to contemplate the subtleties LOL That's why this demands a reread for me--and soon!
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WOO! More books that I am going to get and add to the shelf of books that need to be read.
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I would have allowed my son to read it, when he was a child, as well.
Many parents don't allow their kids to read such books, and there's almost always someone asking if books are ok for kids, so...
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thumbs down...it's missing The Porcelain Throne
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I've been wanting to get these books after hearing all the good things about the tv miniseries
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I've come to expect nothing less from a show that has Timothy van Patten directing (see: Sorpranos, Rome, Ed, Deadwood, The Wire, The Pacific, Boardwalk Empire)
What concessions they've had to...
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Thanks, OP, in for 1. As a fatwalleter, I'm a big believer in libraries, but it's pretty much impossible around here to get these books now that the HBO show is on.
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I think the TV series is pretty darn good and fairly true to the books, although it's been awhile since I read the books. I can't even remember when he released the last one, although the next one...
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This is relevant to my interests, but I can't STAND when they use the movie/show covers on a freakin book that the show is based on.
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Spanks! Just looking for these because the series is so good and i cant wait for sundays to come.
$30 for the kindle version?? GOOD DAY, SIR!!
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