A Game of Thrones

Like many people, I bought this book because I enjoyed the television series and I have to say I enjoyed reading it equally as much as I enjoyed watching it. Had I come to it cold I think I may have found it much harder to read. As is usually the case with fantasy stories there are a great many uncommon names, a huge amount of traditions and 'verse lore and complicated, interwoven histories and linneages to learn but thanks to the show I was already familiar with these. Really the only drawback, if you could even call it such, to this book was it's length. It's almost twice the length of an average book and at times it was a little frustrating to read several chapters and then find I'd barely made a dent in it, although I suspect that was my eagerness to finish it and move on to the next book ;)

awesome book, the show made me pick it up, now I'm goin to read the next two before they come out with the next season

I read this book a couple of weeks ago and was instantly enthralled. George R R Martin's writing style has more than a hint of Tolkien, and he creates a world of equally epic proportions; producing a brilliant opening for A Song of Ice and Fire.

The attention to the details of life in the world of these lords, ladies, knights and warriors is fantastic; you really get a feel for the way things would have been and almost know the characters therein personally.

I'm currently working my way through the second book in this series after eagerly purchasing it in response to the shock on the final page of this truly epic first installment; this book comes with a huge recommendation from myself.

I have to say that I am now hooked on these books. I have really enjoyed it however I would say that there are so many characters in the book that at times I was a bit lost and had to really think about who was who. It does give you a run down of the characters but as I say until you are really into the book it takes a while for everyone to fall into place. Great for my imagination and its one of these books where I keep reading until my eyes are closing because I want to see what happens next.

Thanks to my middle son Nicholas for introducing me to this mind altering book. The writting has the power to draw you in to an ongoing family and I use this term in the broadest manner of conflict in power and loyalty and the rightchiouse act.

One is thrown into daily strifies of the lords and kings and their feud between themselves in their immediate lands and the prospect of aquiring other lands and titles by whatever means to available to them

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Getting to know these people is like getting to know all the family members of your spouses family, it will take time. We are given a list of families and ther members and titles and relationships to each other at the end of each book in this series.

As of now I am reading book 2, Clash of the Kings!

One of the greatest Books ever!"