Not_Your_Typical_Lannister (Leslie)’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2016)

Not_Your_Typical_Lannister (Leslie)’s comments from the Read A Song Of Ice And Fire 2016 group.

Brendan wrote: "What is up with the three eyed Raven? Will be interesting to find out!!!"

I have no clue.

I am glad she didn't actually see with her own eyes the beheading. That would have been even more heart breaking for her. Poor kid!

You are very welcome.

Oh not a good chapter for the happy couple. I don't know who is in worse shape - Drogo or Dani.

Moved from a different spot to here which I believe is where it should have went based on your thread name:

"message 1: by Megan Feb 16, 2016 08:55AM

I feel for Ned in this chapter. He's alone. He doesn't know what is happening to his daughters. He doesn't know of his wife's whereabouts. In many of his chapters, he is recalling his sister Lyanna. She is a mystery to me but she seems so very important. I don't believe that Ned is his father. In all of the thinking that Ned has done, he never thought about how he betrayed Catelyn. With how honorable he is portrayed, I don't see him fathering a bastard. I think Lyanna is Jon's mother and Rhaegar is his father. There have been a few small sentences in the previous chapters that have brought me to this conclusion."

Separate chapter threads will be set up closer to the start date. If anyone is interested in helping set them up please send me a private message. All help is appreciated. It is super easy - you just copy and paste from a list I have ready - but a little time consuming.

Book #2 - A Clash of Kings group read and discussion

~ runs from March 1-April 30, 2016

Megan wrote: "I have just started reading the series for the first time in January then I found this group and thought it would be great to see other ideas about the goings on in the books. My brother encouraged..."

We are pretty much in the same boat Megan. I, too, watched the show first and started the first book in Jan. I look forward to hearing what you have to say. Welcome aboard!

Ritika that is my plan too. But will I survive the wait? Doubtful. lol

Especially if work people and friends talk about what happened on the show last night.

Yeah in this book I have noticed that he is kind of only talked about. At least up to the 80% that I have read.

Brendan your timing is great.

Amy has set the books up as two months of reading and discussing per book.

Book one is Jan. and Feb. Book two is March and April. Etc. It has seemed to work very well for GOT.

Welcome to the group.

So now I know why the Nights Watch are called crows. I always wondered that.

"The crow is the raven's poor cousin."

I am going out on a limb here.

I think it's safe to say that Frey's daughters are not exactly beauties.

Oh the joys of arranged marriages.

Amie wrote: "A Game of Thrones

I am starting to see that I need to think of the show and the books as 2 separate entities in regards to circumstances that occur in each world. To compare is to do ..."

Absolutely! I agree completely although reading this has clarified a lot of what I have seen on the show.

But I do think I would likely have given up and not continued reading because if I had not seen the show I would be really confused with all the characters. (I tend to be a quitter when I am confused.)

I have actually stopped mid sentence and pulled out the tablet to google image a character.

So although both are very good, they should be seen as two separate entities.

I have played the GOT Telltale video game too. It is great but it is not really like the book or the show.

Ritika wrote: ""The king eats, and the Hand takes the shit." - Robert
"The king dies, and the Hand is buried." - Ned

Perfect description of the situation by both the characters!"

Yep.
Poor Ned he didn't even want the job.

I love the ice zombies.

I mean who can resist those beautiful blue eyes? I know I can't!

Chappy wrote: "This scene of the novel is where the first episode of the tv show ended, it was at that point i fell in love with this series and bought book 1 off the internet."

Yes that moment in the show sucked me in as well.

Brianna wrote: "thoughts while reading:
Why does Alliser Thorne hate Jon so much?
I feel like you can really tell Jon is a teenager-a little bit petulant. lol"

I really don't know why he hates him so much either. There is no reason that I can see. The only thing I could think of is maybe he does not like his Uncle (the dude who is missing whose name I have forgotten) and he's guilty by association???