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A Game of Thrones

Daenerys

Daenerys

Mother of Dragons
Premiering on HBO April 17th is a new series based off of the book series A Song of Ice and Fire (beginning with A Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin. This book series is one of my top two favorites of all time, and I am SOOOO excited for this!!! It is a fantasy book series, but it is not at all what one would expect from a fantasy series. Its fantasy elements are more in the background of the story, a sort of underlying quality in the world of Westeros. The characters are very very deep, and not a single one can be called completely good or completely bad. It is written in the point of view of all the main characters. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and they alternate between all the main characters in that particular story. The major plot line is there are 7 great houses fighting for control over a kingdom. There are a couple of minor plot lines, those being the events happening at the Wall, a giant 700-foot-tall wall made of ice that marks the northern-most boundary of the land of Westeros, and the story of Daenerys Targeryen (that is where my username is from), one of the last-remaining of House Targaryen, the previous rulers of Westeros before King Robert Baratheon took the throne. This series is fantasy, but it is very different from the traditional fantasy of black and white, good and evil, "good always wins". In this series, good does NOT always win, NOBODY is all good or all evil, and main characters DO die, and often in a terrible, heart-breaking way. There is injustice, a whole lot of death, and basically no happy endings for anyone. It is very mature in that there is a lot of sex (incest, adultery, prostitution, and rape included), war (no grisly details are left out), crude humor, etc. I recommend that anyone interested in epic fantasy read this series.

This TV show has me so excited I simply cannot sit still in my seat :D



 
And the next book in the series is coming out soon too! They also just released for pre-order the Kindle version of the book. My boyfriend is quite excited about this too.
 
Yeah its coming out July 12th, I can't wait!!! I want to pre-order it (in the paper book version) soon :D

Some posters they have just released:

Eddard Stark
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King Robert Baratheon
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Queen Cersei Lannister
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Daenerys Targaryen
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Eddard Stark on the Iron Throne
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I have to admit I couldn't put the books down when I read them. So I very excited about a series version of this. Love that pvr for this one. :D
 
I tried reading these books a long time ago, it was wen i first started reading propper but i didnt take to the first book. i recall something about some men in an icey woods that end up getting killed by an unatural force at the beginning. am i thinking of the right book?
i dont know why i didnt carry on with it, i think it was because i was a little daunted by it at the time, since then though i have gone on to read MANY books, most rescently 'The wise mans fear' by patrick rothfuss AMAZING!
bu this series is always in the back of my mind!
is it worth another go at??

by the way, Sean Bean, what a legend!
 
Oh yes I say it is totally worth another go! Its in my top 2 all time favorite series ^_^ And yes you are thinking of the right book, but that is just the prologue, the actual story starts with the Starks.
 
Read a short story based on that world; the main characters were a "hedge" knight named Sir Duncan and the son of a prince nicknamed "Egg", who was traveling as the knight's squire...Pretty good, may have to check the series out :)
 
Without question imo, it is the best series of books, I have ever read. I started with 'Game of Thrones' at the end of January while at work on my Blackberry. I am in sales and this is a slow time. I finished 'Feast of Crows' about two weeks ago and am re-reading the whole series again. I am as excited to see this on HBO as I was for LOTR and currently am about 'The Hobbit', but then again, I am a relentless nerd. I am trying to get my wife into it, but she just reaffirms to me that I am a dork. I still cannot wait
 
I keep trying to get my dad to at least read the first chapter of A Game of Thrones....he says he wants to but he just keeps forgetting or only remembers when he has too much to do. I told him he only has 10 days left, hopefully he will be able to squeeze it in! Says the TV series looks excellent :) I wish it was airing THIS weekend because I don't have cable in my apartment but I will be at my parents house all weekend! >.< My dad says he will record it and send it to me.
 
Nice! I've been seeing comercials for this, and after your review I think I'll check out the show! I'll try to get to the books first actually.. I don't like watching before reading. Puts too many constraints on my imagination and eventually ruins the book for me.

I've been addicted to Netflix for awhile now though... :noevil:

*edit: well, considering that the show is tonight I probably won't be reading novels before watching. Count me in tonight!
 
Well, anyone have reviews on the show? My boyfriend has talked himself into waiting for the first season to be finished up before trying to watch it. So far, at least. He doesn't have cable and couldn't justify getting it just for that show.
 
Unfortunately for me I wont be able to watch it tonight. The person I was hoping would let me use their TV is out of town today D: So, I am having my dad record it so I can watch it later this week (unless I can find it online!). I am so going to hate seeing all the people talking about it without me! D:
 
Well the first one was pretty good. Not sure if tonight's episodes were 2 different ones only had time to watch one that I taped.
 
I read something today that has gotten me even more excited:

"Now for the storytelling, which some reviewers have found problematic. It's easy to see why Boardwalk Empire, Battlestar Galactica and so on go for feature-length episodes to start things off. Game Of Thrones isn't allowed such a luxury; instead the opening instalment, Winter is Coming, has to introduce more than two dozen speaking roles and several locations in under an hour. This clearly proved problematic and what you're seeing tonight is a largely reshot version, with director Tim Van Patten paving over the work done by Thomas McCarthy (Scott Templeton from The Wire). Having seen the first half dozen episodes, I can't think of a single character introduced in part one who isn't later part of some significant event or meaningful exchange. We may not get the full background of the characters, I assume there are pages and pages of this sort of thing in the book, so many expecting a favourite line or scene may come away disappointed. The pilot is a little different in tempo and pacing than what follows, but it does do a bang-up job of setting up the drama. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-ra...pr/18/game-of-thrones-dont-believe-the-gripes
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What this says to me is that they're not trying to make every single episode into its own mini story. My other all-time favorite book series, The Sword of Truth, was also made into a TV series but I think that was largely a big failure. They only got through two seasons because in every single episode there was a mini story about some adventure that Richard had to go on and it really steered the show away from the books. Nearly so much that they can't really continue without basically rewriting the entire thing. So this says good things for me! :D
 
I have to admit I was enjoying the sword of truth series. But only as a spin off from the books. As some of the stories were waaaay off the book. I thought of it more like little side adventures that may or may not have been written in the original as they weren't pertinent to telling the story.
 
I enjoyed the SOT series as a TV series, but if I were like some people I have seen who like everything as close to the book as possible, it really seriously fails on that.
 
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