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I think that is pretty normal. I've never seen a movie/show that captures an entire book.
I've been reading A Song of Ice and Fire for 15 years. He'd better finish the freaking books!It was bad enough with Robert Jordan died without finishing the Wheel of Time series! Gah!
Am I the only one who stopped watching this show because they keep killing all the people I like?
Meh - I still don't really care. There are plenty of other nerd fantasy books out there to read. GRRM is like Three Floyds. It's pretty good beer, but there are lots of other really good beers out there that don't have the distribution issues or attitude. The TV show is a fine substitute for finishing the books. Other authors I would recommend:Joe Abercrombie, Brent Weeks, Peter V. Brett, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Anthony Ryan.
Thanks for the suggestions, I don't have many people to talk about this with.My bookshelf is packed with RA Salvatore and Terry Goodkind. I need to get back into reading for fun instead of just reading management books!
I haven't yet checked out Salvatore and Goodkind, but will give them a shot. Any specific recommendations?If you are looking at the list of authors, start with Abercrombie's First Law trilogy. I also really liked the Night Angel trilogy from Weeks.
I liked-- but didn't love-- Game of Thrones. I sat down to watch the first episode of the new season and just felt overwhelmed. The two minutes of "Previously on GOT" was filled with some many story lines, I wondered why I would even try to watch anymore.I know I'm pathetic, but I've become too lazy to care about everything going on in this series.
Anyone catch last nights EPIC episode. Highlight of the series for me up to this point.
I thought the whitewalkers attacking Hardhome was more shocking. Burning the princess at the stake was horrible.
It was an OK episode...but they totally butchered Stannis' character. Not in the good "lets make this guy a villain way" but in the "lets just ruin this guy's character in the most pathetic way possible." It seems like the writers really didn't know what to do with his character arc and just copped out.
Completely agree. And putting it on GRRM in their after episode comments was lame. Yes, he told them Shireen is sacrificed in the next book (which was expected); but they went out of their way to do it in a way that completely misses the point from how Martin has set it up to happen.
As a non-book reader... Care to explain how it's setup in the books?
Shireen/Selyse/Mel are at the Wall and not with Stannis. Seems like it's heading to a point where Stannis won't witness it; perhaps not even sanction it. Nor is it setup to be believable that Selyse has last second remorse/regret as she was depicted to have last night.
Shireen/Selyse/Mel are at the Wall and not with Stannis. Seems like it's heading that Stannis won't witness it; perhaps not even sanction it. Nor is it setup to be believable that Selyse has last second remorse/regret as she was depicted to have last night.
I'm lukewarm on this season. There are a lot of things I don't like. Last night's sacrifice of Shireen was certainly up there. I also didn't like the twist with Ramsey tormenting Sansa. Totally unnecessary twist. I mean...we know from the whole Reek thing that Ramsey is an awful human being. We also know that Sansa was tormented by Joffrey. Having her endure that again while reinforcing that Ramsey is awful is just unnecessary.Sure, there have been some good moments this season, but there have also been some spectacular low points and not in a good way. This is why I didn't like it when they started deviating from the books in Season 2. I get it, a lot of people read the books and you want to spice it up for them, but GRRM is bloody enough with his main characters. You don't need to further kill/abuse/torture characters, especially ones like Shireen (one of the few innocents and already tormented by Greyscale) and Sansa (already been through this ringer before), just for the sake of "keeping it interesting."I hate to be one of "those people" because I get creative license, but they are quite literally abusing it this season.