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It's like War & Peace meets Grimm's Fairy Tales and they travel together to Middle Earth speaking in a modern tongue. Only BETTER!
Epic in scope with a HUGE cast of characters. A little difficult to keep the characters straight at first, but the reader quickly becomes invested in their lives. Character depth the likes of which blur the lines between good guys and bad guys. Aren't we ALL both good and bad? There's an entire history book of background information that is alluded to... how long must ...more
Epic in scope with a HUGE cast of characters. A little difficult to keep the characters straight at first, but the reader quickly becomes invested in their lives. Character depth the likes of which blur the lines between good guys and bad guys. Aren't we ALL both good and bad? There's an entire history book of background information that is alluded to... how long must ...more
I went into this series with relatively high expectations, given its acclaim, and was not disappointed. Martin has constructed a vast geographical and political landscape with the care and attention to detail that befits the story and its characters with their grand scale. I found having viewed the television series beneficial, as the many, many characters' names were already familiar, as were their faces, even when their visual portrayal has differed from their literary descriptions. The downsi
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