Westeros Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 With season 5 completed (see our episode guide on the final episode for some of our thoughts), there’s a lot of discussion about what the show did right or wrong this season, interviews with various members of cast and crew, and more. But Random House—publishers, through their subsidiary Bantam, of all things A Song of Ice and Fire—asked us to provide a list of 11 reasons why fans of the show might want to give the books a try if they haven’t already!You can find the article here.read on >>>Visit the Site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howling Mad Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 The Random House keeps crashing. However, as an avid reader of ASOIAF and the its related works I don't need a reason to read the book :cool4: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMissTyrell Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Hello everyone I read the books a couple years back and I love ASOIAF everyone should read ASOIAF It has so much depth and so much character development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yin & Yang Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Number 5 is the biggest one for me. Everyone who has o it watched the shows are losing it because they see Jon Snow dead and can't see any other way than him remaining dead.Through dreams, prophecies, and the foreshadowing they present, the book readers are quite confident that he will live again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojam Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 The show got me to read the five books. I have been entertained by both the show and the novels in different ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tyrion I Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I know the books and the show. "The books are the books, the show is the show."<snip>I have been entertained by both the show and the novels in different ways. :agree: So much this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Thecla Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Reading the source material is respectable to the author. As a writer, I can't imagine how frustrated I'd be if people watched the film adaptation of my literature without reading said literature first. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Writhen Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Totally different animals. Half the fun has been reading all the books then getting a total WTF feeling because of the way they manipulate the source material, i.e. Arya killing Rorge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R4W13Y Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 This was great, thanks Ran :) I really enjoyed it and will share it with shownly friends of mine. Can anyone tell me the source of the Daenerys picture? I know it's by Magali Villeneuve, but I can't find it online anywhere except for in this article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fexyr Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 I'm reading the books now, and it just amazes me the way GRRM portray his characters. I think the actors are great, but many details get lost! Anyway, I'm enjoying the books. :bowdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EobardThawne Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 This was an amazing article. One of the few that doesn't go all snobby but doesn't also become a diehard defender of the show and just tells things how they are. Great layout too. This is the kind of thing I can share with people respectfully and not be called a 'butthurt bookfag.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vee Stark Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 The show got me to read the five books.I have been entertained by both the show and the novels in different ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arabian Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Per #1 - It was REALLY obvious watching just the show WHY Jon was stabbed--because of the politics of what was going on with the Night's Watch and the Wildlings. An Unsullied co-worker of mine saw that completely. Olly was just an easy way to see that the other Night's Watch (especially Thorne) was using his pain to get him to go along wih it. Anyone who isn't clearly anti-show would obviously see that the show made it clear that the stabbing of Jon Snow was ALL about the politics and had NOTHING to do with an orphan boy just as it was clear in the books. Everything that Elio described as being portrayed in the books, my Unsullied co-worker pretty much described as she thought as to why Jon was stabbed.While I agree that the books are brilliant, it would have been nice to see a write-up endorsing that people buy the books with an acknowledgement that they are two different mediums and thus offer two different ways of enjoying this wonderful world that GRRM has created. GOT is wonderful, so is ASOIAF. One doesn't have to drag the books as these 11 reasons subtly (and not so subtly) do in order to praise GRRM's brilliance. I fear that in doing so, it will have turned some show-lovers away from going near the books out of solidarity to the show, because, yes, there are show purists out there too now and I wish no one would deny themselves the joy of GRMM's work. But by damning the show in order to praise ASOIAF, this may send some potential readers from ever going near the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fylimar Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Although I really still like the show, I like the points 7,8 and 9 on the list. Especially the tons of missing characters (among them favorites of mine like Rodrick Harlaw, Lord Manderly and Arianne). The Dorne and the North storylines could be handeled better, but maybe we will see some more in the next season. A book is nearly always better than a movie or a show and that list gave an explanation for that: the authors and the readers imagination has no budget limits. So I enjoy both stories as their own. In most cases, I like the casting very much, some characters look different from what I have imagined them in the show, but they do work for me nontheless - Hotah and Cersei are such characters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ni2tre Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I love both book and show, I always recommend both to anyone I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roxWolfox Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 While I agree that the books are brilliant, it would have been nice to see a write-up endorsing that people buy the books with an acknowledgement that they are two different mediums and thus offer two different ways of enjoying this wonderful world that GRRM has created. GOT is wonderful, so is ASOIAF. One doesn't have to drag the books as these 12 reasons subtly (and not so subtly) do in order to praise GRRM's brilliance. I fear that in so doing so, it will have turned some show-lovers away from going near the books out of solidarity to the show, because, yes, there are show purists out there too now and I wish no one would deny themselves the joy of GRMM's work. But by damning the show in order to praise ASOIAF, this may send some potential readers from ever going near the books. :agree: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annara Snow Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 The show got me to read the five books.I have been entertained by both the show and the novels in different ways. Yes, me too. In very, very different ways. I'm being incredibly entertained by reading blogs, rants and parodies of season 5. It's really fun when you see it as a hilarious crackfic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolorous Gabe Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 I would like to add a 12th. Dolorous Edd No Unsullied I've ever brought up the subject with knows who he is or why on earth he could possibly be one of my favourite characters in the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaircat Meow Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Yes, me too. In very, very different ways. I'm being incredibly entertained by reading blogs, rants and parodies of season 5. It's really fun when you see it as a hilarious crackfic. Yeah, showDorne is certainly entertaining, in its own way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolorous Gabe Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Read the five books and can't understand either. No offense, but i'd like to know why, you got me all curious ! Edit : Yay, first post ! None taken, and welcome to the forum. Finding humour in the bleakest of moments yet remaining unfailingly dutiful is something that I feel embodies the human spirit. Edd is the humanistic embodiment of the bleak predicament of the decent factions of the Night's Watch. And he is hilarious! Some of his quotes had me laughing weeks after reading them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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