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

George R.R. Martin

Start date: June 9, 2011

Finish date: July 1, 2011

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Oct 12, 2011 Jess rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: tower-teams-team-c, read-in-2012, read-in-2013, owned, magenta-mix-up

I don’t really know how to review this book, since I’ve read it once before and seen the TV show adaptation of it at least twice. If I was smart I would have reviewed it after I read it for the first time, when my view of it wasn’t mixed up with the show and the knowledge from later books.

I really, really love this book. Something I noticed reading it this time, after recently rewatching the first season to put the general progression of important events in my mind, is that you can really pinpoi ...more

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Sep 01, 2011 Andrea rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, fiction-fantasy, read-sorted

2016: I forgot how quickly shit hits the fan when it comes to George R.R. Martin. One moment you are all warm and cozy, because all of your favourite characters are still around. Next thing you know you are standing knee-deep in bloodshed. Well, that reunion lasted long...

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Reading A Game of Thrones once again allowed me to make some connections I've never noticed and/or forgotten before. What did Lyanne make Eddard promise her as she was dying? She was quite adamant about her brother to go throu ...more

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Dec 04, 2016 Morgan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, historical-fiction, fiction, dragons, fantasy

It took me a long time to finally get around to reading this -- I started it first a couple years back on kindle and got to a certain point before my attentions and time were taken by other things and shorter books were more satisfying since I could actually reach an end in a day or two.

This time I picked up the audio version instead and I'm really glad that I did. The narration was well done and it really made the story flow for me in a way that it just hadn't in print. It's a vast world and im ...more

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