Well, I'm a few posts in already, but I guess I can introduce myself. I am Mike and I hail from Minnesota. I actually started reading this after hearing many great things from some friends at another forum dedicated to another series of books that I read. So I was able to pretty much trust their tastes on this one. I actually started reading A Game of Thrones around the beginning of last September and I caught up to the series and finished A Dance With Dragons around Christmas. And now here I am, at another forum ready to make an ass out of myself for another couple thousand posts.