Martin, George R.R.: A Game of Thrones

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[pabba]

And the end is fabulous.
Probably one of my favorite endings. Ever. I mean that. I'm about one/tenth through the third book (sucker clocks in around 1100 pages!!!) and loving it. Hope you get to A Clash of Kings soon as I'd be interested in your thoughts on it.

[calico_reaction]

I'm going to try and pick up the other titles this weekend, but god only KNOWS when I'll get the chance to read them! :)

[pabba]

Heh, yeah, I know. Trying to read Martin plus books for reviewing purposes is tough! Maybe I should quit my job, heh?

[calico_reaction]

Hee hee...so you're a paid reviewer then? I've considered trying out my hand at that, but I don't think my kind of reviews are what people are looking for professionally.

[jeffhowell]

Glad you read and enjoyed this George Martin book. If you'd like I could send you a few other paperweights in the series. As you noticed, they are quite fast reads, maybe because he sets up such great page turners.

[calico_reaction]

Thanks for the offer, but I'm going to pass. ;) I don't know when I'm going to get around to reading them, and I certainly can't read them now, cause his voice is too influential. Plus, I intend to keep this particular series, which means that whenever I go to the store, I'm going to be SUPER-anal about picking out which copies I get. :) I'm weird like that.

But thanks again. You are far too kind. :)

[sensorglitch]

His voice is too influential? What do you mean by that?

[calico_reaction]

It means I unconsciously imitate his voice in my own writing. In an SF story, it's not a good idea for the diction to sound all medieval fantasy, you know?

[anonymous]

told ya! :)

-scott andrews

[jamiltr0n]

I was amazed at how quickly I was able to get through all of them. Martin's writing really has a way with being able to hold my interest.

[calico_reaction]

Looking forward to the others, that's for sure. And I'm glad they're fast reads. It would've been hard to want to keep going if they hadn't.

[morgan_dhu]

I've been meaning to read these for a long time, myself. I shall have to get a little more proactive about getting them onto my to-be-read shelf.

I read and loved much of Martin's early work (The Armageddon Rag has never really faded in my mind even though it's been about 20 years now) and I'm not sure why I've not yet gotten around to his more recent stuff - probably just the standard complaint of "too many books, too little time."

[calico_reaction]

I hear that...I've got so many series that I've started but haven't kept up with, cause there's just so much out there.