Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones - aka A Song of Ice and Fire is a series written by George R R Martin, and probably one of the most popular at the moment.

I have read the first 5 novels:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons

Two more are forthcoming.

I have read all the books, after the First season played on HBO. Then looking at the movie the rest of the seasons was a torment. The episodes were happening so fast. Each episode was like 200 or 300 hundred pages in the book...

Anyway, an interesting thing happened. You know when you read a book (without seeing the movie first) your imagination builds the characters. They all become distinct individuals, and most of the time they are very different from the actors. What happened now is that I got corrupted.. Because of the movie, some of the characters could not be changed. For example Cersei Lanister, or Aria and Sansa Stark, John Snow, The Hound, The Mountain, Tyrion Lanister, and Daenerys were built the same way in my imagination, to the very small details. While Bran for example looks completely different. Maybe the fact that they changed the character, and I did not get very accustomed to him. Who knows?

So the plot is actually pretty simple, I am amazed why it is so popular actually. George R R Martin must have eaten something when he was little to get so lucky as to get produced by HBO.
You have some families that own some lands and they are fighting for territory. Then the weird shit comes in. Dragons exist and giants and of course the white walkers, aka frozen zombies. Nobody froze zombies before, from what I know. So let's say there is some innovation involved. But really it's like a fairy tale for grownups.

Things that were interesting in this book? I liked Aria's training for the many faced god, and I liked some of the dialogs Tyrion had with other characters.

To be continued...