I got my hands on the first Game of Thrones book at the library today and decided to make a thread to talk about the books so we don't fill up the other thread with spoiler tags. I was also going to make a thread commenting on the first book while I read, so upon seeing Psychotic's suggestion decided to kill two birds with one stone. This will be my first time reading the books and everything else I know is from the show and what I read online. Don't worry about spoiling things for me as you reply to this thread, I'm very good at skimming.

I'm reading the prologue now.

Discuss A Song of Ice and Fire.