A Game of Thrones discussion

So I would really like to read this book, but when I searched if this book would be able to be read by a 14 year old, there were mixed opinions. What do you think?

It all depends on who you are as a person...
14 year olds aren't all the same, so where one 14yo would have no problem reading it, anothger one might have trouble with it...

Nathalie it entirely depends on the following question:

Are you able to handle a book with tricky morals, sexual and violent depravity, and complicated characters?

T. wrote: "Nathalie it entirely depends on the following question:

Are you able to handle a book with tricky morals, sexual and violent depravity, and complicated characters?"

Well, I thought of maybe watching the tv show whilst I read the book. Is that a good idea?

Mathew wrote: "I feel like reading the books before watching the show is much better.Though it is really up to you, I am a book before show/movie type of person.

Also, it is doubtful that there are many 14 year ..."

thank you for this reply!

I was like 12 when I read Lord of the Rings. This is much easier to read but it depends on how well you deal with bad language/sex/violence. I'd have been all over this series at 14 but I was stuck with Terry Brooks, haha.

Good question. There's a lot of disturbing stuff in this series (rape, torture, cruelty and evil of all kinds imaginable). What's most disturbing to me is that it involves kids as well as adults. This is a fantasy series, but the human element is very, painfully, real.

I would never recommend this series to a 14 year old. But, being honest, nothing would have stopped me from reading them when I was 14. I think I probably would have cried, thrown up and/or thrown the book across the room a few times. But I would have read it, and then read the next one, anyway.

And Mathew's right. The fact that you're on Goodreads, asking this question, indicates that you're not a typical 14 year old.

Knowing when to cut yourself off is part of growing up. Go ahead and read it if you really want to. But don't be ashamed to put it down if it's just too much. You can always pick it up again in a few years.

I haven't watched the series. From what I've heard about it, I think it would just make it more confusing to watch the series and read the books at the same time. Just do one and then the other.

I read the 1st five, one right after the other, when I was 29. I felt so disgusted with humanity at the end that I could only bring myself to read youth literature for the next six months.

But now I'm anxiously waiting for book 6.

Whether you read it now, or read it later, I hope you enjoy it.