Old Fat man's fantasy part II - while I appreciate the story telling ability, and the plot thickens, still reads like erotic stories from Hustler magazine.

Grade: A-“Never Forget What You Are, For surely the World will Not. Make It Your Strength. Then It can Never Be Your Weakness. are our Yourself in It, And It will Never Be Used to Hurt You.” -Tyrion LannisterI’m glad that this makes me Clears my mind to understand the Events. I know most fans watching more TV series rather than the books, but I rather read a book. Lucky there’s another Adaptation on the Not the Morin , But Comic Screen.The Cover of Tyrion Lannister’s Introduction To Jon Snow And...

Just quickly I wanted to speak about the second in the Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings. This will definitely include spoilers.The novel begins in the midst of the chaos, with the characters all trying to deal with the events of the last novel. After the death of King Robert, there are now five kings in the realm – Joffrey, Renly, Stannis, Robb and Daenerys. I liked this book. It’s definitely not the sort of book you can just pick up on a book shelf. Although Martin...

A pretty satisfying second entry in the series, although it didn't have the satisfying conclusion that Book 1 had. Definitely felt like the author got to ~ 800 pages and said, OK, that's enough -- time to stop this Book.I was definitely sucked in by the whole situation surrounding the deaths of Bran and Rickon, and fairly so. This is a great example of foreshadowing in that the clues about what happened are planted before the event, but not clarified until afterward. I feel like Martin did more

I started watching this HBO series on the recommendation of a friend. Thank goodness for Fios & On Demand. I was hooked!!! I originally approached reading the series with some trepidation because considering the time period & the importance the details of geography & the linage of the characters plays I figured it may be a hard read. Still like a crack head with no crack, when the series ended, I has to get me a fix and bought the first book in the series. To my surprise it was much easier to re...

I can't put this series down! George R.R. Martin does an amazing job of combining the facsinationg world of knights and princes with certaiin elements of dark magic and dragons. A must read for any fantasy lover.

Ok, I have all their names straight now, and I am hooked!! I also went out and bought the DVD for the first season of the HBO series. I don't watch television, but I've been tempted to get HBO just for this! But I'm going to try to hold off........

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

Started out slow, now can't but it down!

Ned Stark have a nice butt... the end.

Unless something changes in the individual comics, My reviews will pretty much be exactly the same for each book. I love how the locations look and I love how it follows the book to the letter, Not a basic synopsis but it literally follows entire chapters and I love that.Aside from that, It's a disappointment. The characters look god awful and are terrible designed. Not to mention that the comic is incredibly short (not even 30 pages), It would take forever to get through the first book if they

This one twisted and turned and was quite gory.

NOTE- THIS REVIEW IS FOR BOTH BOOK ONE AND TWO. LAZINESS OR EFFICIENCY? YOU DECIDE.What a great series. I had heard good things for a long time, but never jumped in (probably the inherent fear of starting an epic, multi book story from the beginning, haha), but my friend Jeremiah gifted me the first one and I was quickly hooked. Like a grittier LOTR, without most of the fantasy elements (they are there, but in the background, at least for the first book- they come much more to the forefront in b...

So what I've done is watch the two seasons (ie. first two books), then picked up the second book. Here was my thinking: I'm already too far ahead of the events in the first book to want to read that, but don't know if reading the third book will spoil the third season. I thought I would read the second book and, if the experience was that much better than watching the shows, I'd keep reading the books. But I don't know if it is! The books don't improve on the characterizations of the show, nor d...

ETA: And once again the reviews I see on GR for this COMIC BOOK are talking about CLASH OF KINGS. They don't even share the same name people. I just can't even...Again, not the biggest fan of the art style. But the narrative is still chugging along smoothly. This issue was just the King arriving in Winterfell and what happens up to Maester Luwin's message. And it included one of my favorite quotes from the entire series:

While this one was better storywise, I really didn't like the graphics when it came to the faces of the characters. These two men are King Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark. Luckily, the king is wearing a crown, but otherwise, I'd have to look twice to see who's who due to their very similar facial features/hairdo's. And this one pretty much speaks for the rest of the pages.It's not that the graphics are bad in general. It's just really the facial features I got annoyed with. I don't remember havin...

Stunning artwork.These are really short and going to throw off my reading challenge.

I read the first book because a friend recommended it. I find this book to be gratuitous in every sense of the word: sadistic, violent, sexually explicit, etc. I feel like I am living in Rome and witnessing the days of the gladiator where violence & bloodshed reign. Have we lost all sense of decency in the name of fantasy? I am nearing the end of this book but have no desire to finish. Even the Few innocent or noble characters are systematically executed. What is the point? As of yet, it is d

As the characters spread apart my frustration grew. Took a long while for a payoff.

I was not quite as obsessed with this one as I was with the first but I will keep reading. Enjoying reading the books and watching the HBO series.