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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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Sep 12, 2010 ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: women, strong-women, series, suspense, crime, fantasy, mystery, romance, sisters, family

I liked it but didn't love it. I found myself really bored with some points-of-view story lines and more drawn to others. I've seen the first couple of seasons of the show so I pretty much knew what was going to happen. It seems that the first season is fairly close to the book and if there were differences, they must not have been too severe for me to notice. Anyway, this review is about the book. I found it to be a bit too long, sometimes too wordy, far too many characters and histories, but I ...more

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May 26, 2011 Vicky rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: z-author-american-usa, zz-cover-color-blue, fantasy, own-book, setting-fantasy, own-ncc-overdrive-ebook, own-ncc-overdrive-audio, series-waiting-on-release

I tried to read this book about a year ago and couldn't do it. I made it ~180 pages in and put it down for a good long while. Then my brother started to get on my case and wouldn't drop it until I finally picked it back up again.

I liked it, but I didn't love it. This is another prime example of a first book in a series that gives LOTS of world-building and set-up with little action. These kinds of books always disappoint me. There are, however, enough potential for future events that I'm going t ...more

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

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