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

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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Mar 15, 2010 Kate rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fill-in-the-gaps-project

This was a really good book and I look forward to see how the rest of the series goes. I am glad that I watched the first season of the show first because it helped me keep characters and events in order. There are so many characters that having watched the first season was really helpful. However, I do not plan on watching more until I have read more of the series.

The characters felt so real. And so sad. It always amazes me when author's are able to create such a complete world with a full hist ...more

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Jan 10, 2018 Veronika Valerievna rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Thank goodness, it`s over. I am sorry to all fans, but the language in this book is really hard for me. Many slow parts, that are just boring, and they don`t have any sense. Just because there are a lot of descriptions without any further development. I still enjoyed TV show, and would like to read all books. But first certainly has its flows. We`ll see, how it goes with the rest. ...more

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