Bridget: Book 1/26 : A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Let's see if I can get this right! Rules! Okay here goes...
Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553573403/002-0381204-2090424?v=glance
Tried really hard to post a picture but don't think I have enough high tech skills
Summary: Watch out this book is 800 pages long, font is small, and hardly more than .3" margins on any side of the page. Is the first book of a trilogy. Borrowed it from the library and anxiously waiting for the next book to become available.
The book was recommended to me by Swingbeat :) Fantastic novel. I don't know if it is classified as fantasy but it has knights, kings, and battles for power. The book is really excellent because of the quality of the writing and the character development. The characters are great because they are not easy to stereotype. You truly don't know what to expect from any given character from one chapter to the next. I also liked this book because, throughout, each chapter is being narrated by a different character (could be a woman, man, child). Martin does a good job making his characters and their complex thoughts and feelings take form as the book progresses. With the different narrators you get different angles and dimensions to story plot lines. The appendix reminds me a little of Beowulf because there is a geneology of the "various" houses (families) represented in the book.
Basic plot no spoilers: Many families going to war over ruling the "7 kingdoms". Time of lords, ladies, kings, and queens & old family histories and the nobility associated with it. Corrupt royal politics, nepotism, chivalry, romance, sword fights, references to dragons, wolves, horses. It's easy to get drawn in to the story because there is so much good content and not too much filler (like I find in some other fantasy novels).
Highly Recommended.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553573403/002-0381204-2090424?v=glance
Tried really hard to post a picture but don't think I have enough high tech skills
Summary: Watch out this book is 800 pages long, font is small, and hardly more than .3" margins on any side of the page. Is the first book of a trilogy. Borrowed it from the library and anxiously waiting for the next book to become available.
The book was recommended to me by Swingbeat :) Fantastic novel. I don't know if it is classified as fantasy but it has knights, kings, and battles for power. The book is really excellent because of the quality of the writing and the character development. The characters are great because they are not easy to stereotype. You truly don't know what to expect from any given character from one chapter to the next. I also liked this book because, throughout, each chapter is being narrated by a different character (could be a woman, man, child). Martin does a good job making his characters and their complex thoughts and feelings take form as the book progresses. With the different narrators you get different angles and dimensions to story plot lines. The appendix reminds me a little of Beowulf because there is a geneology of the "various" houses (families) represented in the book.
Basic plot no spoilers: Many families going to war over ruling the "7 kingdoms". Time of lords, ladies, kings, and queens & old family histories and the nobility associated with it. Corrupt royal politics, nepotism, chivalry, romance, sword fights, references to dragons, wolves, horses. It's easy to get drawn in to the story because there is so much good content and not too much filler (like I find in some other fantasy novels).
Highly Recommended.
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I originally thought Bridget was cheating by counting a book she finished last week.
But no. She read 275 pages today after she signed up for the challenge.
Ladies and Gentlemen: FEAR.
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