[ books ] Songs of Ice and Fire by grrm

[flaviomatani]

If you're starting to watch the TV series maybe you would like to look away now...

Just finished reading the fourth in the Ice and Fire books by grrm on which the series Games of Thrones is based. The story is gripping (although a little less so on the last book so far, which did get a little tedious at times for me), the characters are believable.... there's a fifth book coming out in July and I can see there must be a sixth and probably a seventh one to wrap the story. But it is so, so bleak! grrm himself says it is a big story, with a cast of thousands, although he does his best to thin out those thousands to,er, more manageable numbers, perhaps, by killing them all. It is a bad idea to get too attached to any of the people you encounter in the books or you'll end up a little heart-broken.

The HBO TV series based on the first book is very well done and there hasn't been practically any of the 'but-it-wasn't-like-that-in-the-book' that I always get in movie-based-on-book-I've-read.

Comments

[na11e1y.livejournal.com]

I am so addicted to the HBO Series!

I don't think that you have given anything away.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

I am, even though I already know what's going to happen.... (but not always exactly how

[ahura-mazda.livejournal.com]

I didn't read all of that - well you said....

I am abolutely LOVING Game of Thrones. I even get goosebumps from the music and the opening credits :)