Well, if you don't have time to read the series, I would suggest watching the show. Its not an exact copy, granted, but it is a fairly faithful adaptation nonetheless, and most of the really big moments in the books still take place in the TV show
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I read it over several days, so I'd guess it took between six and ten hours... I'm a particularly fast reader though.
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Some game changers that occur between half and three quarters of the way through:
- Melisandre gives birth to a shadow, which murders Renly. - Theon takes over Winterfell. He has two peasant boys killed and pretends they are Bran and Rickon, who have actually escaped. - Jon is ordered to execute a Wildling, but can't bring himself to do it, and lets her go. She then captures him.
Then, neater the end, is the Battle of Blackwater, which is pretty much the climax of the book, but is probably the most gripping, dramatic part.
I went real live tears when I thought Bran and Rickon were dead. I wept even harder when I realized it was some poor boys who weren't even supposed to be here today. DAMN YOU THEON.
1. The first time I read it, it was over the course of about two or three days. If I don't put the book down and just plow through it, I can get it done in about ten hours, but that's just to get through it and not savor the events.
2.I assume you're at least familiar with the show, because otherwise I'm about to feel really bad. I hate spoiling people. At the risk of doing so, and in the vaguest terms possible, I remember that the end of chapter 51, "Theon" (Theon's fourth chapter as a point of view character in the book) made me start yelling the first time I read the books.
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*** Spoilers ***
Some game changers that occur between half and three quarters of the way through:
- Melisandre gives birth to a shadow, which murders Renly.
- Theon takes over Winterfell. He has two peasant boys killed and pretends they are Bran and Rickon, who have actually escaped.
- Jon is ordered to execute a Wildling, but can't bring himself to do it, and lets her go. She then captures him.
Then, neater the end, is the Battle of Blackwater, which is pretty much the climax of the book, but is probably the most gripping, dramatic part.
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2.I assume you're at least familiar with the show, because otherwise I'm about to feel really bad. I hate spoiling people. At the risk of doing so, and in the vaguest terms possible, I remember that the end of chapter 51, "Theon" (Theon's fourth chapter as a point of view character in the book) made me start yelling the first time I read the books.
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