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So we all know that A Game of Thrones is awesome. HBO picked it up, and they only take
the best (except the recent Sookie Stackhouse novels (TrueBlood) have totally
fallen apart). If you’re on top of TV at all you’ve probably watched the first
season of A Game of Thrones. The TV
show follows the book pretty closely so you might be asking, why read it? Well,
dumb dumb, because the book is always better. And HBO focuses on all the sex
whereas the novels focus on the story. I am serious, the show makes you think
that the book must be smutty, but it’s totally not. Martin is like, “yeah they
went to a whorehouse and there where whores everywhere, but then a bunch of
cooler stuff happened.” HBO is like, “boobies, boobies, boobies, boobies.”
We all know that I love woven plot lines,
or we all do now, and Martin is the king of weaving story lines. That man has
woven a basket out of this book. There is so much going on all the time! And he
names everyone! A character might show up for one sentence and he doesn’t just
say, “then some random knight that isn’t important to the story gets killed” he
says, “then Ser Knightlington, son of Lord Knightlington of Knightlington Isle
– who is and excellent cook and one time went camping with Ned Stark’s brother
Brandon – was killed.”
I have so much respect for that. He has the
whole world perfectly mapped out, he knows who everyone is and what there
connection to everyone else it. It makes it so much easier to get lost in the
world. By having so many characters fully developed we get opposing views of
other characters like Rhaegar. When I’m reading the Stark plotlines I’m like
damn that Rhaegar, what a bastard. But when I’m reading Daenerys’s plot I’m
like poor Rhaegar was killed by the usurper, you go get your kingdom, girl!
What else is nice about this book is all
the women. It’s so easy to think, “well medieval women didn’t have much say so
I’ll leave them out of the book.” And that’s just boring, stories where men and
women both play game changing roles are way for fun to read. Martin has
included all sorts of women in his novel and they do smart things and dumb
things all the time, just like the men! This book has thrown me into a fantasy
phase and I’m also rereading The Hobbit
and no offense to Tolkien, but there’s like half a women in that novel, which
is fine for a thousand reasons and I am not trying to bash Tolkien. It’s just
nice to read the women in A Game of
Thrones. That’s all! I’m not burning my bra over this. I love Tolkien!
Reviewed by: Meg!
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