A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) in Beyond Reality

Jan 21, 2018 Flying Monkey rated it it was amazing

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The scope and depth of this book is soooo grand and impressive. So glad I decided to tackle the series this year. It’s going to be a great year of reading.

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Feb 10, 2011 MadProfessah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Thanks to a friend on GoodReads.com, I was convinced to ask for A Game of Thrones for Chrismuhkwanzukkah, and received it. I had heard about the series A Song if Ice and Fire and was aware that HBO is going to start airing a miniseries called Game of Thrones in April 2011.

Variety reports that there are over 4.5 million copies of the first four books in the series in print and it has recently been announced that the fifth book A Dance with Dragons will be released on July 12, 2011. Many fans ...more

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Dec 05, 2009 Angela Randall rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, ange-recommends, 1990-1999, friends-recommend, award-winner, a-great-list-of-top-books-to-read, we-own, 20th-century, i-own, fantasy

This was great to read, even though I've seen the series. It still has some very interesting revelations about what was going on in peoples' heads. Worth reading, for sure. ...more

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Mar 09, 2011 Jenny T rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, read-in-2011

This was a re-reading for me; I first picked it up ten years ago, missed half the nuances (and three-quarters of the names) and promptly forgot about it. This time around was different.

First off, never before have I wanted to slap so many characters in one book before. For naivete, greed, cruelty, or really really bad parenting. This is a good thing, actually--I was definitely affected by the events and the people in the story.

The characters often felt more like archetypes rather than individua ...more

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Oct 23, 2010 Stephanie I rated it it was amazing

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A MUST read for anyone who calls themselves a fantasy fan. This book is a rite of passage.

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This was an AMAZING read, considering that I've been dodging reading it for years.Just...epic.

I loved the WOLVES! How they protected their masters, how they seemed to see danger coming, and how they do what's best for their masters, not just following blindly (like Ghost leading Jon's friends to him so the ...more

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