Game of Thrones?

[gategrrl]

Has anyone read George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones series? 

I'm not much into High Fantasy (haven't been for a loong while) but I downloaded a demo of the trilogy, and it actually seemed pretty good. The characters aren't stupidly named, the parameters and their relationships are clearly spelled out pretty quickly, and there's some perverted stuff going on there, too. Almost a dark High Fantasy. And dire wolves. How can you go wrong with Dire Wolves?

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It's amazing

[ndmzero.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for your preferences - but the Game of Thrones is a fantastic series and George RR Martin always does great characters. I highly recommend it - I'm tapping my fingers waiting for him to come out with the newest book. (George Martin's Sand Kings is one of the best, and I mean the best, Sci Fi short stories I've read in 40 years. He's really good.) On the other hand, in his Wild Card series, I was always freaked because I would bet money that one of his "super-psychos" (written by a contributing author, not him) committed a (perverted) murder behind the grade school I attended. That story was in the first set, and has affected my appreciation of the rest of the series. Still, that isn't his fault.

Re: It's amazing

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

There was a murder behind your *gradeschool*?!