05-27-2004, 09:39 AM | #81 |
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Better than Tolkien?!
Well I started reading one of his, "A Game of Thrones". So far it's good!
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05-27-2004, 10:56 AM | #82 |
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IMO
Aye, better then anything Tolkien has written. [With the exception of certain Silmarillion passages]
General consensus is that GRRM gets better as we move along, but my personal favorite has always been the first one, perhaps because of my liking of Starks and the North.
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05-27-2004, 12:28 PM | #83 |
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BelegS, you tried Windhaven?
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05-27-2004, 12:38 PM | #84 |
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Tolkien's hard to live up to, so if you think they are better then... wow. I'm not going to raise my expectations though, because I don't want to be disappointed. I'll let you know what I think.
Is a "Game of Thrones" the first book he wrote? (don't have time to check right now)
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05-27-2004, 02:23 PM | #85 |
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Yup, that's the first one (in the ASoIaF-series, he wrote lots of stuff in the 80's ).
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05-28-2004, 11:37 AM | #86 |
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Nah, haven't tried Windhaven, but read Tuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, Sandkings, Mistfall and will shorty read Dying of Light.
I want to read Windhaven and Song Of Lya though. [Many names of books might be mispelled in the aforwritten couple of sentences since I am not big at remembering book names]
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05-30-2004, 07:03 PM | #87 | |
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Re: IMO
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07-06-2004, 01:40 AM | #88 |
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OMG i have found a substitute to keep me from madness until a Feast for Crows comes out, the comics of the Hedge Knight are ****ing awesome, i read the first one last night and it was awesome. well drawn and an awesome story, and most of all GREAT TARGARYENS (ie more Rhaegarish less Viserys)
The trial by seven as the climax is awesome, Ser Duncan and his companions riding against a Targaryen prince and his son and 3 of the Kingsguard and a prick of a fossoway and another targaryen... I dont really want to spoil to much but although it is set 100 years before A Game of Thrones you can see "relatively" small things that have made massive consequences in the books, but you all will just have to read them
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Song of Ice and Fire is awsome awsome awsome, i dont say that about many series, id say its one of my favorite to date.
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10-24-2004, 02:56 AM | #90 |
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Upon a strong, strong recommendation of a friend of mine, I have purchased the three existing books in the "Song of Ice and Fire" series.
It's next on my list.
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10-25-2004, 02:04 PM | #91 |
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I too picked up the Fire & Ice trilogy on ebaY recently. I managed to get through the prologue in a month. It seemed good, but for some reason it doesn't drive me to want to pick it up and read.
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10-30-2004, 10:42 PM | #94 |
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A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings A Storm of Swords (sometimes divided into two books)
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His series aren't finished yet though, there's still 3-4books left (and he's taking ages to write them).
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Thanx, I'll look in to it.
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Silly Millicent. Nope, you weren't the only one *****ing grapes.
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