A Song of Ice and Fire (book discussion - spoilers inside)

[Ayen]

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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.

[Jinx]

Good luck with this thread. xD

[Bolivar]

Congrats on checking out the first book! Definitely share progress and impressions.

[Ayen]

George knows how to describe the winter chill, that much is for sure. There's some prose there that reminds me of how I would word things at times, like starting a sentence off with well as if you were having a normal conversation with someone. So far I like the prologue better than how the opening scene went in the first episode.

Should have let Will start a fire, Ser Dick.

[Jinx]

Let's talk about GRRM's gratuitous use of rape and how he's probably a very twisted individual.

[The Man]

I don't think it's gratuitous. It fits in with the themes of the book, namely that misogynistic societies are horrible places to live, especially when they're as torn by war as Westeros is. Now Sword of Truth, there's a series with gratuitous use of rape.

[Ayen]

I'm dreading the first rape scene I encounter. That's always been something I steered clear from.

Jesus Christ, George! Way to make me thirsty from a BEHEADING! I should not need a drink after a guy gets his head chopped off like a chicken.

[Psychotic]

So, ADWD spoiler. (SPOILER)Aegon: Real or fake?

[Jinx]

ToriJ...there's a lot of rape. A LOT of it. You get used to it...but it's smurfed up.

Psy...I want to say fake, but a lot of things point to real.

[Psychotic]

It's funny because I feel the exact opposite to you.

[Ayen]

ToriJ...there's a lot of rape. A LOT of it. You get used to it...but it's smurfed up.

Oh joy.

I'm glad the narrative explains how old they are. I was always confused on that front.

[Jess]

So, ADWD spoiler. (SPOILER)Aegon: Real or fake?

(SPOILER)I haven't made my mind up yet. Real or Fake, I'll be happy as long as he doesn't win the IT in the end. Like I said in the other thread, I'd be really disappointed with that end, considering his late arrival to the series.

[Psychotic]

So, ADWD spoiler. (SPOILER)Aegon: Real or fake?

(SPOILER)I haven't made my mind up yet. Real or Fake, I'll be happy as long as he doesn't win the IT in the end. Like I said in the other thread, I'd be really disappointed with that end, considering his late arrival to the series.

(SPOILER)He seems like such a top lad though. He's been trained not to be a privileged and entitled trout. Honestly the best ending for everyone is for him to become king, Targaryen blood or no.

[Ayen]

You know, people always tell me that the first book was so slow and the first episode's pace was too fast, but so far I find the book pace to be fast and the first episode seemed to have followed it well for the most part out of the stuff I've read.

Did Viserys just give his sister a purple nurple? *reads again* Son of a dick!

[Jinx]

I thought the pacing of the first book was just fine.