Books A Song of Ice and Fire (Books) | TV show? What TV show?

That's a pretty big spoiler to be fair. If you really want to know I will tell you, but I would strongly suggest you keep reading instead as she will get a lot less annoying soon
 
I've just started reading A Storm of Swords today, it's taken me about three weeks to read the first two so far. Hoping I can finish this and A Feast for Crows before A Dance With Dragons comes out next month.
 
Yes, I'm a fan, yes I'm biased, yes I love the books and I'm a fanboy, but that's without a doubt THE FINEST HOUR OF TV I have ever seen and that includes anything from the wire or sopranos. feck Yes.
 
Now why you had to go there and compare it to the finest piece of tv drama ever created?
And also say it's better? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
 
I haven't seen it yet, though it didn't receive amazing reviews from the newbies! I forget which episode I am up to to be honest, 7 I think, will try and catch up this week.
 
:lol: true. I am starting to really enjoy it, although it's making me want to read the books again
 
FreakyJim said:
Now why you had to go there and compare it to the finest piece of tv drama ever created?
And also say it's better? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.
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:lol::lol: I think I got carried away on seeing the dragons last night but I think I should rephrase that to the 'most enjoyable hour on TV' for me. Every scene was perfect - The King in the North, Arry and Yoren, Sansa and the hound,The nightswatch marching beyond the wall and ofcourse ... dragons ... in glorious CGI. Now we know where the money went.
 
Dragons and giants riding mammoths is where the book lost a little for me, however I have to admit I am looking forward to seeing the dragons on the screen :D
 
SmashedHombre said:
Dragons and giants riding mammoths is where the book lost a little for me, however I have to admit I am looking forward to seeing the dragons on the screen :D
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I had my apprehensions on the scene from the start but boy did they nail it. Alan Taylor should just direct every episode from here out.
 
Do the dragons grow to maturity very quickly because of some form of magic? Because up till now there growing slowly and i don't see how much of a part they can play other than increasing the magic of the world.
 
Luminous Lizard said:
Do the dragons grow to maturity very quickly because of some form of magic? Because up till now there growing slowly and i don't see how much of a part they can play other than increasing the magic of the world.
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Nope they don't grow very quickly. Its the end of book 4 and they're still growing whilst still causing some damage. But your last line is spot on.
 
I've been blazing through Storm of Swords and just got to the Red Wedding again. I'm not sure I can deal with it tonight. :(
 
I read the Wedding last night. Such a nasty thing to happen. It was always the most "WTF" part of the books for me.
 
Yeah I still can't believe he did it. I will be very curious to see what the TV viewers make of the show post-red wedding and then the whole Catelyn/Beric Dondarrion situation. I predict mixed reviews for the 'new Donadrrion' (trying not to spoil anything for LL here!) and a lot of 'holy shits :eek:' at the wedding.
 
Luminous Lizard said:
I'm on storm of swords book 1 and on around 250 pages in. Am i that far off?
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About 200 pages into the 2nd book.

And by the way, you should not be in this thread if you haven't read the books. I feel limited as to what I can actually discuss in here right now for want of ruining such brilliant twists and turns for people.

The worst part of it;

Finding out Robbs head has been attached to his direwolf (or the other way around, not sure)

That was sickening.
 
That baffles me. Finding it out for yourself is 100x better than reading about it on wikipedia or on some forum. I don't know why you'd even read the books.

I really don't get you. You should be staying as far away from this thread as possible. I'm not going to spoiler anything I say in here, so unless you want to have everything spoiled for you..
 
SmashedHombre said:
Yes they continue being major characters. I wouldn't say their characters change per se, they definitely 'mature' though. You probably won't even be able to guess which other characters become major players, or who changes the most or even what happens to Jon, Arya and Bran though so I guess I can tell you that much without spoiling it!
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Thanks, that's kinda in line with what I was asking.

Just read the Red Wedding, and
surprisingly I felt nothing. I never really liked Catelyn(this stemmed from what she said to Jon in the first book when he went to see Bran) and I was never really able to connect with Robb because we never really got to see things from his POV. Felt sad for Arya more than anyone else tbh.
and also

It's a pit Joffrey's death wasn't slower and more agonizing. Poisoning was too kind.
 
just finished feast for crows and so completing all there is so far. Started after seeing the first episode of the TV show and although reading the books subsequently ruined the tv experience for me I dont regret it at all, i actually cant see what all the fuss over the tv shows is now as they pale in comparisson to the texts (granted looking at busoms is always worthwhile though)

I've thoroughly enjoyed them all though I feel Feast didnt really have as much going on as the previous ones. No epilogue was disappointing (the prologues and epilogues have been excellent in all the previous books) but i was glad to hear Marlin intends to fill in all the non-featured characters events from Feasts' timeline into Dance..' i'd assumed he was just going to move on, having given Dany the time to learn/grow/rule that he eluded to at the end of Storm.

looking forward to Dance, though its gonna drive me mad having to wait for more of Aryas story, her arc has been by far the best imo and with her direwolf gathering an army over on westeros my much desired reunion with her being a bad-ass assasin is surely on the cards - just a shame they wont get to rip jofferys face off together :(

this is the first book of this genre i've read, even though its exactly the sort of film/video game im into. can anyone reccommend similar series i might enjoy? need something to get me through the next 12 days!
 
I've struggled getting into reading A Feast For Crows, but could be because i've been the first three books solidly for the last three weeks.
 
i found the first half a struggle too with no tyrion, no wall, no dany and stannis. A lot of the dornish and ironborn stuff seemed all a bit pointless, no doubt they'll have their part to play later on and so needed the coverage but having spent 3 books with only a passing reference to them it all felt a bit foreign

Its was also far too cersei heavy for the most part and the brienne arc was basically entirely pointless

still, it does finish well and sets up Dance nicely
 
Done with it now and waiting for the 5th book. It's the first book in a while where I wished I had been slower in completing it. It took up a certain part of my day that's now empty :( I'm looking forward to the 5th book.
 
I read the Red Wedding last night. I was so annoyed that I put the book down.
 
Ok so, on to DwD so spoilers in place now

I've only read the prologue so far, a minor spoiler in here but it's more my thoughts than anything else. Still you've been warned

the prologues got me thinking about Bran and his search for the 3 eyed crow. I'm wondering if it might be Jon who he needs to find, given that he's a crow (nights watch) a skinchanger and didnt he lose an eye to six-skins' eagle in SoS? but if it is Jon he needs why has Cold Hands took him off north, unless there's treachery afoot!

Awesome start to the book, Tyrion chapter next :drool:
 
Consumed the whole series of books in last 4/5 weeks. Just finished Dance With Dragons.

Has another 'WHAT?!' moment (or two).
 
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