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A Game of Thrones
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1st book in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Now on HBO…more

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Kimmay
I had heard such great things about this book, and i would have to say it truly is a very good book. At first, the style of changing of POV each chapter I thought might not flow well, because I have read other books that tries this and just didn't do well with it, BUT George Martin really did a great job with it. I lost a LOT of sleep this past week staying up way to late to read "just one more chapter" only to find i couldn't put the book down after 5 or 6 more chapters. I had the intention of ...more
Andy
Nov 28, 2010 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
It took me an awful long time to read this book. I started it the week before Halloween, 2010 and finished it at the end of January 2011. This wasn't because it was hard to slog through - but I was rather distracted (mostly reading comic books). I read about the first 250 pages during that week in October, while on a trip in Mexico. Then I read about another 150 pages over the next month and a half and then in past week I read the other 500 pages.

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Glenn
First re-read in preparation for the HBO mini due to start in April.
Melissa
Oct 17, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 25, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 26, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 30, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 05, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 09, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 14, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Nov 15, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy, favorites
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Nov 30, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Dec 11, 2007 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Jan 24, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Feb 24, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 02, 2008 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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