NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece.
A GAME OF THRONES
In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
A GAME OF THRONES • A CLASH OF KINGS • A STORM OF SWORDS • A FEAST FOR CROWS • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
This review is late, but I feel the need to express my almost hatred of this book. There is too much repetition among the chapters, and too many characters to keep track of. I found myself getting lost every so often as to who I was reading and how they were connected. It probably didn't help that parts got so boring I had to put it down. (There was also a two month gap where I didn't touch it because of how bland it got, so that might not have helped anything.) For me, this is much more of a man's book. Women are constantly put down, there is a rape at least every 50 pages, and if you don't have a penis you might as well not live.
The one plot line that kept me the most interested was the incest, but that might not be enough to finish the rest of the series. The only character I remotely liked out of all the main ones was Jon Snow, but if I had to read about how he was a bastard one more time I might as well have shot myself. (I might just finish reading the second one because I found it for 50 cents.)
I truly wanted to like this series because of all the raving reviews of it, but I just could not get myself into it.
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