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You poor, doomed child.


Edited, Dec 25th 2011 5:05am by Poldaran

You should really enjoy them, yeah. Things are a bit more fleshed out in the books. What's been great about the HBO series, though, is that they've been adding scenes here and there as well. Dangerous, but they've been well done, so it's paying off. They're necessary scenes because they help account for the differences between the time length and pacing in the books and show.

The two compliment each other nicely.

Edited, Dec 25th 2011 11:18am by Eske

You'll get more background than you could ever want. Also, under no circumstances should you get too attached to a character. You've been warned.

Well I'm finally going to start reading tonight and I'm excited. My dad warned me that characters tend to die and the last book was a huge disappointment.

Winds of winter Sample chapter: http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html Only click that if you really want to read it.

So tempted to read the sample, but I know it'll only make me want to read the rest of the book, and I know it's going to be years before he finally finishes the damn thing.

In the mean time, I recommend these finished series:

Brent Weeks, Night Angel trilogy

Robin Hobb, Assassin Trilogy, Liveship Traders Trilogy, and the Tawny Man trilogy which is a sequel to the Assassin trilogy.

The only other book I think I've ever read that has more twists in it than the Brent Weeks trilogy (and I've read thousands of books), is The Golden Age trilogy by John C Wrigt. I only didn't recommend that one because it's Far-Future Science fiction, and not medievelesque fantasy.

The Robin Hobbs I recommend, not only because they are excellent stories with many passages of great beauty, but because they have a similar gritty reality to them like Game of Thrones. The Assassin's trilogy takes the Kitchen-Hand TO King genre and turns the harsh light of day onto what would really happen to a small orphaned boy with a dubious royal background. And what that environment would really do to his personality.

Edited, Jan 3rd 2012 9:46am by Aripyanfar

E readers have many benefits and one some drawbacks. Benefits include: ebooks are generally cheaper than paperback; ebooks don't take up any space in crammed bookshelves; ebooks read on a small handheld are lighter than a hardback or first out paperback; most ebooks can be read in bed in the dark, on a night-time setting with low light output; A good ebook program lets you read about the first chapter of a book for free, letting you know if the writing is good enough that you actually want to read the story.

Negatives of ebooks include: Cheapness and easiness of buying ebooks leads to massive spending on ebooks unless you keep a budget tracking your many small purchases; the ability to read a book in the dark so you don't disturb your partner/parents can lead to all-night reading and all day sleeping, which can have its own fatal consequences; free first chapters can lure you into purchasing stories that aren't that good, you just want to know what happens next.

Edited, Jan 8th 2012 6:16am by Aripyanfar

The hell I wouldn't!

If I could download pizzas, I wouldn't have been able to lose 60 lbs this last year...