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Thanks! Actually it is not just the covers (which are simply plain), but the book themselves, since in italy and I guess in other parts of europe every novel was split in three. We are still waiting for the translation of two thirds of ADWD. As for the translation, the main complaint is the fantasy of the translator, who sometimes thinks he can change things randomly. In the very first Bran's chapter in AGOT the stag's horn killing the mother direwolf magically turns into an unicorn horn.. I mean, unicorns don't even exist in the asoiaf universe! Another time, iirc, he has added the name Eddard in front of Stark, but actually that Stark is probably referring to Brandon (it's something regarding Lyanna, I think). Other than this, the translation is fine, but I think this mistakes can really change the experience. Anyway I'll definetely have fun :) Thank you! Actually, it is fun discovering how people you interact on the internet look like, but yeah, it doesn't happen often on forums.

Hi everybody! I have been lurking here since the start of the fourth season of the show and now that i'm (almost) done with my exams i decided to join the community. I love both the show and the books, and I am in fact an avid reader and a tv series addicted. ASoIaF has really everything I like in the fantasy genre, plus politics, drama and twist. What's not to love? When an english friend of mine suggested me the novels and I started reading them, I thought I would stay at home with my nose in the books until I had finished them. Fortunately I managed to save my social life and even study a little bit. I'm currently in the process of re-reading the books, but this time I'm reading them in english and I'm enjoyng them even more (thank you GRRM for your prose!). I'm italian and our translation has been full of little and sometimes big mistakes (and I'm not going to talk about book covers), so I almost felt obliged to read them in english. And I can improve my english as well. I actually hope to stick to the forum since I know myself and my hopeless shyness (both irl and even on the internet..) but from what I read you guys seem a really great and fun community, so I'm not that worried.