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Ruth wrote: "I am not even close to any of my reading goals for the year. My commitments to hearth and home have interceded much more than anticipated. Plus, these bloody Song of Fire and Ice books should count..."LOL! That's why I take long breaks between them! I've read the first two, so far.
I was newly charged for book 5 after concluding season 3 of the TV series. So good!!!
I'm glad I hadn't read about the Red Wedding before I saw it - I think it had a much greater impact on me, being unprepared. With the first two books, I saw the series first, then read the book, then bought the season and watched it again. This time, though, I managed to DVR the third series when it was rerun in a marathon, so I've seen it twice already.
I have to agree -it would have been much more shocking without knowing, but it was incredibly shocking when I read it. I swore and and screamed and went crazy. And that's only half-way through book three!
O, it was plenty shocking to read it! There were some choice words spoken out loud, most of them being some variation of holy ****! (insert favored four-letter word). But, it did amuse me when people who hadn't read the books were talking about that episode after it aired. I was all like "what, you didn't know that was coming?" :)
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This is the first time reading a book first has ever been an issue for me!
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Agreed! That's why I don't mind counting little 100-pagers too, because once you balance them against 800+ page books, you get a pretty accurate # of books of around 300 pages. I try to go more by page count than books, anyway. Trying to beat last year's, but I'm not sure I'm going to make it. I was upwards of 33k.