A GAME OF THRONES - Discussion Thread

Digital Twilight

Fifthelement wrote:

Latest Song of Ice and Fire book new.

A Dance with Dragons is coming 12 July 2011 :shock: Woo Hoo!

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-update.html

Cool. About time

intodeep

Fifthelement wrote:

Latest Song of Ice and Fire book new.

A Dance with Dragons is coming 12 July 2011 :shock: Woo Hoo!

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/if-update.html

I saw this via facebook a few hours ago on my phone and just got in front of a computer this is AWESOME news! I almost shit myself when i saw it on facebook.

intodeep

Jason P wrote:

I just started reading the 1st book a few days ago. So far it's been great although I've spent half my time flipping back and forth to keep track of everyone.

Very cool! I think it only gets better the deeper you get into it. It can be a little overwhelming at first with all the different view points but it comes together nicely.

rrivers

Thanks for the news!

I read the first book last year and really enjoyed it. Like Jason when I first read it I was flipping back and forth to keep track of the characters, but after awhile you don't have to do that anymore.

I started book 2 but put it aside. Not because it wasn't good though. Every year my wife and I have a contest to see who can read the most books in the year. I knew I had no chance if I tackled that one late in the year. (I lost anyway so I should have read it !)

I'm really looking forward to the HBO show.

I'm also in the same boat with other people who said they have stayed away from The Wheel of Time because of what they heard about later books. I read the first one and liked it, but haven't moved on. I'm glad to hear someone say the rest is worth it. I was looking at the most recent one in hardcover and figure I will get back to it. The Sanderson "Way of Kings" looks good too.

Also, if you haven't you should check out "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. The second book in the trilogy came out Tuesday.

intodeep

EW also has a new trailer that is awesome and a picture of the wall.......

Holy shit the Wall looks awesome. This looks so good

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/03/game-of-thrones-new-trailer/

Fifthelement

intodeep wrote:

EW also has a new trailer that is awesome and a picture of the wall.......

Holy shit the Wall looks awesome. This looks so good

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/03/game-of-thrones-new-trailer/

Trailer looks amazing. Not going to judge based on a few seconds on the clip, but it seems to me that some things have changed from the book :? Oh well, I'm sure that all will be well

Fifthelement

Oh, and Jason P and rrivers, you should both keep at it. The books are definitely worth it. Don't get to caught up on who's who. It'll all come together nicely

Digital Twilight

Fifthelement wrote:

intodeep wrote:

EW also has a new trailer that is awesome and a picture of the wall.......

Holy shit the Wall looks awesome. This looks so good

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/03/game-of-thrones-new-trailer/

Trailer looks amazing. Not going to judge based on a few seconds on the clip, but it seems to me that some things have changed from the book :? Oh well, I'm sure that all will be well

It's usually necessary to change a few things when you adapt something from medium to another.

Looks like it has been put together nicely and not a rush job.

Sprunkn7

There are sooo many names!! When I first started the series I almost put it down because I was having a hard time keeping all the names (and AKA's) straight. But it all does come together nicely. Some people are just not that important and you kind of weed them out.
I still need to read the last book (Crows). I wanted to wait until after the HBO airing was over to resume. Now by then I know I will have two books to read in the summer!

intodeep

I found using the website www.towerofthehand.com to be helpful when i was reading.

It has a sidebar fro each book that offers overviews of the chapters as you read them. I would read a chapter and read the overveiw and it would help me catch things maybe i missed. You must be very careful NOT to look at the footnotes though because it will spoil big time shit that goes down.

They also have character write ups that i used when i came across someone i did not recognize. The nice thing with this is on the top of the page you can choose how far you have read in the seris so if you are reading AGOT and look up Sansa Stark it does not tell you anything that happens to her after AGOT. This was helpful with some of the more minor players when i was reading.

I am super geeked about this show and new book

rrivers

intodeep wrote:

EW also has a new trailer that is awesome and a picture of the wall.......

Holy shit the Wall looks awesome. This looks so good

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/03/game-of-thrones-new-trailer/

THank you for that.

Fifthelement

Just over a month to go . . .

New GoT poster

intodeep

Fifthelement wrote:

Just over a month to go . . .

New GoT poster

Oh i just saw that poster this morning and was about to post it. That is awesome. I would love to have that poster. Love how he is even wearing the hand chain in the picture too.

Fifthelement

Found an even bigger image :shock: :thumbup: The detail is amazing.

http://pics.livejournal.com/grrm/pic/000ehg92

intodeep

Yeah that is sweet. It needs to be april 17 NOW

merkinball

Nice article on the LA Times site

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/03/ ... a-brothel/

rrivers

merkinball wrote:

Nice article on the LA Times site

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/03/ ... a-brothel/

Thanks, great article!

Fifthelement

Thanks. Great article. I'm getting more and more excited

Fifthelement

T-minus 10 days (depending on your time zone - 17 April 2011) until the premiere.

If you're interested there's a video clip featuring the first twelve minutes of the show available at HBO.

http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html

http://www.hbocanada.com/gameofthrones/sneakpeek.php

I'm not watching it myself. Going to wait to experience the whole episode all at once

intodeep

I watched the first 15 minutes of teh show. I've actually watched it 3 times :oops:

I think it was pretty awesome. I enjoyed it more the second and third time. I was antsy for stuff to happen the first time.

When Ned drops the "Winter is Coming" line on Cat i was like YES

such a dork i am :oops: