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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

George R.R. Martin

Start date: January 7, 2015

Finish date: January 30, 2015

Why we're reading this: loved the tv series so i wanted to read the books.
[close] loved the tv series so i wanted to read the books.

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Oct 06, 2008 Lydia Presley rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, 2011, fantasy

George R.R. Martin is one of the giants in the fantasy world today, and rightly so. He is a master of storytelling, world building and his characters command so much attention it's difficult to put them aside in favor of doing things like, you know, eating, sleeping and working.

There's been a lot of talk lately (most recently in a NYT review of GRRM's latest book) of George "replacing" Tolkien, which is complete hogwash. While both are fantasy authors (and one a recognized forefather of the genr ...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Vanessa rated it liked it

Shelves: 2011

I tend to avoid fantasy novels, because the majority of the tropes they lean on aggravate me. Game of Thrones falls back on many of these (noble savagery, faux-medieval language substitutions like "raper" for rapist, "ser" for sir and "gaol" for jail, names that are obnoxiously 'fantasized' either through spelling or the addition of extraneous apostrophes), but I still very much enjoyed my experience. I came to the novel having already seen the entirety of the first season of the HBO series, so ...more

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Mar 14, 2012 Jen Peters rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction

Very good story line. I watched the first 3 or so episodes of the series before starting the book and that probably helped me to keep the characters easily seperated in my mind. There were definitely some slow parts though that led me to set the book down easily and not look forward to picking it back up. Because of that I give this book 3.5 stars.

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May 13, 2013 Hannah marked it as did-not-finish

Shelves: grownups-fiction, high-fantasy

It's not even that I didn't like this. I wasn't expecting to, and I found it immensely readable and pretty interesting. But it's just too long to keep holding my interest. If you do have a block of time, though, I recommend it. I just let too much time pass when I didn't read it, and now I can't be bothered. ...more

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