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So how are the Game of Thrones books?
Any good? Will reading them totally ruin my TV series enjoyment due to a lot of stuff being wrong, or are they pretty close?
Brother sent me a text saying the third book went to hell or something.
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I loved them up until the fourth book. I think the fifth book might have been even worse. I'll still read the next one when it comes out, though, because I'm hooked now.
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almost as bad as the TV show
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Book 1 vs. the TV show was pretty bang on accurate up until the last 1-2 episodes were they skimp on some meat and potatoes, and change the Drogo storyline.
Books are entertaining. Book 3 is most people's favorite. The first 60% is fairly straight forward and boring...and then it goes into OMG overdrive.
Reading the books MIGHT make watching more enjoyable as you'll already 'know' all the characters instead of being confused. In book 2 they introduce a whole lot more characters.
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I loved them up until the fourth book. I think the fifth book might have been even worse. I'll still read the next one when it comes out, though, because I'm hooked now.
Forth and Fifth were bad in what ways exactly? Just long and boring like how WOT sort of breaks down between book 5-8 or something else?
Also, what are the names of all the books and are the pre-quels worth reading? My brother has some of them behind me on the shelf in no particular order....
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Book 4 and Book 5 were supposed to be the same book, but it was too massive.
So he split the characters up, a few got book 4 (the rest aren't in book 4), the rest got book 5 (with no book 4 characters present).
Think we got used to action on all fronts and seeing all our favorite characters. *shrug*
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Loved them.
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They made me mad. Unfinished stories, threads left hanging, characters you like killed off with no fanfare, just oh that guys dead. Overly descriptive of food. Blah.
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Book 4 and Book 5 were supposed to be the same book, but it was too massive.
So he split the characters up, a few got book 4 (the rest aren't in book 4), the rest got book 5 (with no book 4 characters present).
Think we got used to action on all fronts and seeing all our favorite characters. *shrug*
I thought like 70% into Dance that Feast and Dance sorta meet w/ some chars...cersei for example...or maybe I'm dreaming
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DunesVladHarkonnen posted:
Book 4 and Book 5 were supposed to be the same book, but it was too massive.
So he split the characters up, a few got book 4 (the rest aren't in book 4), the rest got book 5 (with no book 4 characters present).
Think we got used to action on all fronts and seeing all our favorite characters. *shrug*
pretty much this, in book 4 we got an overload of stupid Sansa and Brienne, not enough Tyrion or Jon.
then in book 5 Daenerys, who had kicked ass up until now, suddenly turned into post-"The Matrix" Neo: "OMG I don't know what to do next? What do I do? Tell me, anybody!"
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Overly descriptive of food. Blah.
This was my big complaint with the books... 2 pages to to describe a meal.
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I thought like 70% into Dance that Feast and Dance sorta meet w/ some chars...cersei for example...or maybe I'm dreaming
Maybe a couple crossovers, but for the most part, it's a 'split' book.
TBH I can't separate what happened to who in what book(s) anymore. It's all sort of blended together into 'the' story.
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They made me mad. Unfinished stories, threads left hanging, characters you like killed off with no fanfare, just oh that guys dead. Overly descriptive of food. Blah.
you need to watch this if you haven't already.
Celebrity Story Time: Game of Thrones Author George R. R. Martin Reads Children's Stories
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pretty much this, in book 4 we got an overload of stupid Sansa and Brienne, not enough Tyrion or Jon.
I'm stuck about 400 pages into book 4, bored with Brienne
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I thought like 70% into Dance that Feast and Dance sorta meet w/ some chars...cersei for example...or maybe I'm dreaming
Maybe a couple crossovers, but for the most part, it's a 'split' book.
TBH I can't separate what happened to who in what book(s) anymore. It's all sort of blended together into 'the' story.
Same, besides a few big events. blackwater, a wedding, stuff like that 
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if you think book 4 is boring wait until book 5. hundreds of pages of not a whole lot happening.
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I didn't even pick up Dance of Dragons yet, because he hasn't finished the series, and he's another one of these authors who could very well keel over before he's done writing the series.
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This was my big complaint with the books... 2 pages to to describe a meal.
Almost as bad as Jordon and his endless descriptions about the wardrobe choices of his characters...
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I didn't even pick up Dance of Dragons yet, because he hasn't finished the series, and he's another one of these authors who could very well keel over before he's done writing the series.
and you have another 5 years until he even gets close to finishing the next book...
I can't wait for everyone to catch up and wait on book 6...and get disappointed again and again and again with release dates being cancelled and pushed back. They will all learn.
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I'm on book 2, haven't seen any of the show. Loving the books so far.
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I didn't even pick up Dance of Dragons yet, because he hasn't finished the series, and he's another one of these authors who could very well keel over before he's done writing the series.
and you have another 5 years until he even gets close to finishing the next book...
I can't wait for everyone to catch up and wait on book 6...and get disappointed again and again and again with release dates being cancelled and pushed back. They will all learn.
I learned with Jordan, and I try very hard now not to start series that might never end, or take 4 or 5 years between books. No thanks.
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Natoli posted:
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Natoli posted:
I didn't even pick up Dance of Dragons yet, because he hasn't finished the series, and he's another one of these authors who could very well keel over before he's done writing the series.
and you have another 5 years until he even gets close to finishing the next book...
I can't wait for everyone to catch up and wait on book 6...and get disappointed again and again and again with release dates being cancelled and pushed back. They will all learn.
I learned with Jordan, and I try very hard now not to start series that might never end, or take 4 or 5 years between books. No thanks.
Jordan is almost done. Last book probably comes out in the fall and that is that.
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They made me mad. Unfinished stories, threads left hanging, characters you like killed off with no fanfare, just oh that guys dead. Overly descriptive of food. Blah.
This exactly. Like a character? They'll die and so abruptly that it's like they were essentially a background character.
The world is good, the overarching story is good, but the details and layout of the books made my mind numb. I quit after book 3.
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I'm on book 2, haven't seen any of the show. Loving the books so far.
Ah, those exciting days of being on the way through book 2 for the first time.
Enjoy that feeling.
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Book 1: Good, engaging enough to keep you going til book 2
Book 2: kind of boring, mostly fill in information
Book 3: hsit hits the fan, explosions, car chases and gun fights
Book 4: like book 2 but with more dragons and whores
book 5: omg wtf long everyone hates the queen
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