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| Title | : | A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4) |
| Author | : | George R.R. Martin |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 4-Book Boxed Set |
| Pages | : | Pages: 4081 pages |
| Published | : | March 22nd 2011 by Bantam (first published January 1st 2011) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction |
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Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 4081 pages Rating: 4.63 | 44070 Users | 1012 Reviews
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George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the "American Tolkien" by Time magazine—has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries “Game of Thrones.” This bundle includes the following novels: A GAME OF THRONES A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWSList Books During A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4)
| ISBN: | 0345529057 (ISBN13: 9780345529053) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4 |
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Ratings: 4.63 From 44070 Users | 1012 ReviewsRate Of Books A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire #1-4)
If FEAST OF THE CROWS were the first title of the Song of Ice and Fire Series, I'd never have read the quadrilogy. The previous sequels were on the edge of your seat exciting and hard to put down. FEAST OF THE CROWS is the carrion of the lot. Characters of import that you'd expect to see, such as Tyrion, Lady Catelyn, Bran and Daenerys Targaryen were MIA, replaced by long-winded, minor characters, who are long in discussion and short on action. For the first time in the series, my eyes glazed8/19/17 - Rereading for the second time, starting with Volume 1, _A Game of Thrones_. Following comments were from my first reading in 2012.* * * * *I loved the mini-series, and the books are exactly like it. Dialogue for the most part is verbatim. Sooo exciting!Wow, so good. First volume was finished 7/12/12. Now I'm starting on the next volume. The first was over 800 pages long, and the second is over 900 pages. I hope I live long enough to read all of these.8/28/12 - Finished the second
It feels a little insane to review this entire series with one swing, especially considering that each book is like 800 pages, depending on the book and the format. But they are really intended as one big piece of work and I don't feel like writing a review of each separately anyway, so here goes (for the record I have read all 5, though for the first 3 books it was about 10 years ago).In the 1990's, disgruntled TV writer George R R Martin decided to shake free of the budgetary restraints and
George R.R. Martin, wow...what a creative wind bag you are! I absolutely adored these books, but you killed off nearly EVERYONE! It's brilliant. I don't even know where to begin. Basically, these books start off telling you which way the wind blows, how everyone looks, how everyone is related to everyone else, yadda yadda. Truthfully, I have to say that I put down the book (in my case, I bought the four-book e-book pack, so...one book) and could not continue for months because I was so
The boxed set of the Song of Ice and Fire. These books have been an amazing journey. The plot is great, and the world of Westeros (and everything around it) compelling and easy to plunge into. I give it an overall 4 stars. The saga is great, no question about it, but Martin could have made it in fewer pages. I guess it was intentional, the world evolved with its popularity, and even more so after the HBO series. So he took pains to describe it in minute detail, to feed the need for escapism of
"A Song of Ice and Fire" is well written. The problem is: the "evil" people are the heroes and the "good" people fail and die. I see enough of that in the real world, I don't want to encounter the same depressing state of affairs in my fantasy worlds, too. Also, it sets a bad moral example encouraging readers to be morally corrupt and behave in a way that ultimately destroys societies. (I guess that's why Hollywood has leaped on the chance to make a movie series from it).Another issue: while the
the characters are shallow and hollow. they are presented with only one or two qualities and those are pushed at every opportunity. sam the coward, cersei the crazy bitch, ned the honourable, etc. Or you have others that are talked up a lot but dont present any of the qualities they are alleged to have, like tywin. the main plot mover is the death of characters and introduction of new ones which really gets old. and some of the deaths are really lazily done. birthing shadows to kill off some
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