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A Song of Ice and Fire: HBO TV Series!
Dublo7
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About of ASOIAF (by request 
): A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic fantasy series written by George R. R. Martin. Many (including me) call it the best fantasy series of all time. Yes even great than Lord of the Rings.
Here are some links to the books on amazon
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Meh, thought I would make this thread. The new one is (hopefully) coming out in a couple of months, and I know there are heaps of ppl on this board who are looking forward to it.
Just abit of thought/question to start it off. Who do you reckon will end up with the throne at the end of the series?
[spoiler:756456ae0c] I personally think it will be Jon (who doesn't deserve it really), or perhaps Dany.
Is anyone else rooting for Stannis?[/spoiler:756456ae0c]
): A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic fantasy series written by George R. R. Martin. Many (including me) call it the best fantasy series of all time. Yes even great than Lord of the Rings.Here are some links to the books on amazon
Clicky
Meh, thought I would make this thread. The new one is (hopefully) coming out in a couple of months, and I know there are heaps of ppl on this board who are looking forward to it.
Just abit of thought/question to start it off. Who do you reckon will end up with the throne at the end of the series?
[spoiler:756456ae0c] I personally think it will be Jon (who doesn't deserve it really), or perhaps Dany.
Is anyone else rooting for Stannis?[/spoiler:756456ae0c]
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haha, I'm sure you will have no problem. They are incredibly addictive.
[spoiler:932dd62d53]taking Tyrion when he didn't do anything.[/spoiler:932dd62d53]
On the black screen
[spoiler:9bd5051d58]Yeah, Catelyn really irritates me aswell. I really dont like her/[/spoiler:9bd5051d58]
haha, you may change your mind abit later on.
On the black screen
Well I do to he's definitely one of my favorite characters.
Though probably my most favorite would have to be Sandor Clegane. So badass, yet [spoiler:c87fd1db9a]so filled with pain, anger, and the fear you see in him with his encounters with fire and all his scenes with Sansa and Arya where he's a better person than almost everyone around him,[/spoiler:c87fd1db9a] make him so great.
By the way an asoiaf thread has been sorely needed.
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
i should probably catch up with my reading...
I totally agree. Sandor is a great character.
Did you guys read about what is happening with Feast for Crows?
[spoiler:e7732a23f0]Its being split into certain characters because it was so long. Then the rest of the characters are being saved for Dance with Dragons. There isn't going to be any Tyrion chapters in 'Feast'
I'm actually rooting for a [spoiler:b707f95124]Greyjoy[/spoiler:b707f95124]to take the throne, failing that[spoiler:b707f95124]Stannis[/spoiler:b707f95124]
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
The third book (A Storm of Swords)... I found a paperback edition series I liked, and it has this book seperated into two volumes. Any idea what that's about? Part 1: Blood and Gold, Part 2: Steel and Snow.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/202-5591737-9234223
Yeah I'd read all about that.[spoiler:2231743d6f] Most unfortunate about the tyrion chapters but it sounds like it'll be much faster more interesting reading for me because I almost always got into the Westeros chapters most and then a Dany or a Jon chapter coming out of nowhere would sometimes piss me off.[/spoiler:2231743d6f]
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
They're all long-ass books, A Storm of Swords being the longest. And in almost every country but the US I understand they are usually separated in more easily published and consumed parts.
But like seriously in Germany(or some other Europeans country) they have like four books for each of our normal books.
Suffice to say we seem to have the best of it.
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
He is indeed one of the msot pompous assholsih characters ever.
One thing I'm most looking forward is
[spoiler:b4b5265502] He seems to be setting up both Jaime and The Hound as charatcers who are able to redeem themselves. I grew to like both of them quite a bit in the third book [/spoiler:b4b5265502]
[spoiler:83fc45cc1c]Of course he left The Hound nearly dead which made me sad but I'm sure if he was really done with the character he'd be a little more than nearly...[/spoiler:83fc45cc1c]
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Not all vampires suck blood.
Not all of them die for love.
[spoiler:f670b74b14]but then he got his head lopped off so it's all good[/spoiler:f670b74b14]
I feel really bad for Sansa. Seriously. I'm starting to like her more than Arya.
Of course I've only finished the first book, so maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture.
[spoiler:4dad320340]Jaime slaughters his men while he freaks out, and a horse falls on him? That's just ridiculous[/spoiler:4dad320340]
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
[spoiler:a3e1c12f70]I wonder what sort of significance that coin holds, as it seems to have helped Arya out on a number of occasions, such as at the end of the third book for example.[/spoiler:a3e1c12f70]
[spoiler:c3295dc790] I'm almsot certain that the guy who gives it to her is one of the FacelessMen Assasians they mention in passing several times. Explains why he can change his appearance and stuff. I think Arya is going to end up going and training with then. [/spoiler:c3295dc790]
Also: lots and lots of sex. Much of it is laughable.
[spoiler:e9ba440097]Fucking your sister on a church alter while she's on her period. Also, Midgets.[/spoiler:e9ba440097]
I agree. I just started the second book after a long haitus from the first and some of the plots are a bit hazy for me now. Has anyone compiled a short synopsis of the different houses and what their general schemes are?
Or, you could brush up on the history of the Wars of the Roses, since much of it is based on that.
What I really like about these books is how much they go against fantasy conventions (in other words, they don't try to recreate LoTR over and over). As was previously mentioned, you'd expect Eddard to be taken down by hordes of guys in a heroic, hopless battle...but instead his horse falls on him and he gets captured, which is something that would pretty much only happen in real life. Other fantasy books, I know there's going to be an all-powerful evil guy who needs a magic thing to take over the world and a ragged band of misfits, probably including a village idiot who dreams of being a knight, will go on a hopeless quest to get it back. Good old George can actually surprise me.
I totally agree. I was very appreciative of the fact that the series thus far hasn't been focused on some grand quest. Its more like a positively cutthroat political drama in a fantasy setting really.
With regards to Bronn (who incidentally was also one of my favorite characters - best example of a sellsword ever), I do believe he's still around and kicking after [spoiler:f33641148c] taking payment from Cersei in the form of coin, knighthood, marriage and lands for betraying Tyrion[/spoiler:f33641148c]
I'm not sure if we'll run into him again, but I'd absolutely love to see how he'd fair against Ser Gregor the Mountain. Speaking of which, I wonder if Mr. Martin will send me into shock some day by actually devoting chapters to a narrative from Gregor's point of view. For all you hear about him throughout the books, you don't really get much exposure to him except for the time he [spoiler:f33641148c] bashes in Prince Oberyn's skull with his bare fucking hands - ouch! [/spoiler:f33641148c] .
I sympathise a whole bunch with Sansa. I mean, it doesn't matter how stupid you are, you don't deserve
[spoiler:39c36a46cd]getting stripped and beaten in front of the court[/spoiler:39c36a46cd]
I find myself being both sympathetic and frustrated when it comes to Sansa. On the one hand, she really doesn't deserve the kind of trouble she's in. At the same time though, she's definitely not the sharpest tool in the toolbox sometimes. I think part of what makes her tale interesting though is the sort of 'school of hard knocks' trial she's more or less going through. She's already learned not to trust everyone, and that she needs to be far more guarded with her opinions and thoughts in a court environment.
Arya on the other hand is definitely fairly smart, and more importantly, she can be very perceptive. What she lacks however is discretion - she can be extremely headstrong. I'm dying to see what happens when/if
[spoiler:445a93f818]
she runs into the Faceless Men in Braavos. It'd be awesome to see her begin training as an assassin.
[/spoiler:445a93f818]
Ah, for fuck sake
[spoiler:9b01403823]Gregor fucking Clegane disgusts me. I hope he gets whats coming to him.[/spoiler:9b01403823]
[spoiler:9b01403823]I'm really anxious to see what happens with that coin with Arya, it should be very interesting
Of course I sometimes sympathize for Sansa, but her ignorance is what infuriates me. I must say however, Arya is very clever, I loved the way she escaped from Harrenhal (slitting that guards throat etc). But yeah, she is very headstrong. [/spoiler:9b01403823]
Hodor, hodor, hodor?