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To the readers of the series long before the show....


JBlaze94

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Depending on your definition of "long" my aunt would let me read chapters that were appropriate when I was in middle school in the early 2000s, few years before the show at most.

Just chapters that didn't have much brutality or just evil stuff. Finding out it was much more on the dirty side of dark then I expected (its kind if rapey, lots of talks of rape, didn't quite expect that) was bittersweet but ive been used to it. I had just finished Dune and the LOTR universe and she would be like "just wait till your old enough your gonna be amazed"

Yeah she has good taste in books lol

Forgot about the opinion on the show, I really really do like to think the show is a completely different entity and should be treated as such. I also honestly hope the endings will be different. Like really different.

Therefore show passing book or book passing show worries are null and void.

On the actual quality of show, its a better adaption then LOTR. That says a lot because up till now as far as epic fantasy go that's the Lamborghini of adaptions. Until this IMHO, especially if the thoughts of the adaption ending in a feature film are correct.

Lotr does have it on epic battle sequence as of yet, but with the ratings being so high I wouldn't be surprised if they match or surpass the caliber of those battles (helms keep, pelennor fields, hell the beginning sequence of the last alliance battle of the intro to the fellowship was amazing).

I just hate that Patchface is the half mad possibly evil equivalent of Tom Bombadil

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i started reading them about 1-2 years b4 the show, after i heard that HBO was adapting a fantasy seriies set in a medievil time...I was immediately hooked and finished up through feast within a wk and a half...it was my summer so I had a lot of free time with nothing to do. show is doing a decent to very good job, i think that they need to expand each season so they dont have to keep cutting out sht that matters to most avid Fans

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When the first book came out in 1996. In hardback. :) I was on maternity leave and was in the bookstore and saw the cover. Picked it up, browsed through it, and bought it. Been hooked ever since.



It's scary to think that that particular child is going to college now...and Martin STILL isn't finished!


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When did you start reading?

What made you start reading it?

How well do you think the show does at adapting it?

I am just curious because everybody I personally know started reading when the show came out.

I borrowed the first three books from a friend shortly after Storm was released in paperback. (2001, I think) My friend convinced me to give it a try even though I told him I had sworn off reading fantasy novels. I was very impressed with the television adaptation when it first aired. After four seasons I'm less impressed and I don't like some of the changes they have made. The books are so much better and well worth the wait between books.

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It was on the anniversary of my aunt and I had really nothing to do. Then I saw aGoT and aCoK in the bookcase. I knew nothing about the show only that it was in a medieval setting. So I started reading and was really impressed and in a few weeks I was done with reading. I have seen only season 2 and 4 of the show.



About the show, I think it does a decent job, but the books are certainly better. Not all the changes are good ones IMO and I am curious where the show will end, but I hope the show doesn't spoil the ending, although I am afraid they will.


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