A Game of Thrones
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Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">HBO Series preview!</div>So for those of you who aren't aware:
A Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy novel by George R.R. Martin, the first from the series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
It is a beautifully written fantasy, and probably one of my favorite if not favorite. What I love about it is that it doesn't feel as absolute as, say, LotR. Some people inherently do feel aligned on the good/bad spectrum, but it is much less visible than in most literature (there is no Voldemort or Sauron, nor is there a Samwise) and good people don't have a strength bonus.
Well basically, I urge all fantasy fans to go ahead and pick up these novels, they're quite AMAZING (caps are in order). The plot is beautifully woven, with twists every other chapter, you're just never bored because you know what will happen next.
With that said, I've eventually learned that A Game of Thrones is ready for an HBO series in 2011, a preview has been shown, and for those too lazy to pick up a book, I am sure the series will be amazing.
HBO series are already usually of high quality, but if it's based on probably the best epic fantasy since Tolkien's works, then it can only be awesome.
A Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy novel by George R.R. Martin, the first from the series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
It is a beautifully written fantasy, and probably one of my favorite if not favorite. What I love about it is that it doesn't feel as absolute as, say, LotR. Some people inherently do feel aligned on the good/bad spectrum, but it is much less visible than in most literature (there is no Voldemort or Sauron, nor is there a Samwise) and good people don't have a strength bonus.
Well basically, I urge all fantasy fans to go ahead and pick up these novels, they're quite AMAZING (caps are in order). The plot is beautifully woven, with twists every other chapter, you're just never bored because you know what will happen next.
With that said, I've eventually learned that A Game of Thrones is ready for an HBO series in 2011, a preview has been shown, and for those too lazy to pick up a book, I am sure the series will be amazing.
HBO series are already usually of high quality, but if it's based on probably the best epic fantasy since Tolkien's works, then it can only be awesome.
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Unfortunately this seems true for many Sci-fi and Fantasy books written for adults.
I don't mind it if the story itself is good, but sometimes I wonder what the authors real motivation was.
I would even daresay that the sex explains certain characters' personalities.
so the creepy sex is character development?
Nothing like that really. Basically the more primitive tribes have wild sex, the midget has paid sex, etc. Perhaps creepier than you'd imagine (it is annoying to read about a midget fondling stuff) but it's usually a paragraph at most from time to time.
A whole part of the first novel revolves around a marriage and the resulting offspring, it doesn't seem completely out of the way to talk about how that baby came to be.
I do hope the author has time to finish the whole series. He's finishing up book 5/7, so he has the last two to write. He's 60ish, hopefully he can manage to finish.
He does have the page quote.