Remember all those endless pages with elvish written songs in the Lord of the Rings books? Well I do, and they were as fun as writting an ethics essay in university (for the record: that was not fun at all)... I didn’t think I could go through that again so when half a year ago a friend of mine gave me "The Talk" about the awesomeness of this "new" book saga called A Song of Ice and Fire, I just unplugged my brain and started picturing old simpsons episodes in my head while nodding in approval.
Casually, a couple of months later my girlfriend downloaded the HBO Series based on the first book “A Game of Thrones" (Viva la Pirateria!). We watched the series 10 episodes in a week (it would had been a couple of days if we hadn’t had to work). By then I was totally determined to read the five available books whatever the cost... Unfortunately $80 bucks for every book was way out the budget I had for "whatever the cost" so I decided to sacrifice 10 years of blessed good sight by reading them all from the screen of my ipod.
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| ... and by "old simpsons episodes" I meant half naked girls with dragons. |
Casually, a couple of months later my girlfriend downloaded the HBO Series based on the first book “A Game of Thrones" (Viva la Pirateria!). We watched the series 10 episodes in a week (it would had been a couple of days if we hadn’t had to work). By then I was totally determined to read the five available books whatever the cost... Unfortunately $80 bucks for every book was way out the budget I had for "whatever the cost" so I decided to sacrifice 10 years of blessed good sight by reading them all from the screen of my ipod.
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| Totally worth it |
I can say without doubt that I haven’t seen a story so epic since the Bronze Saints fought in Asgard. Not even Goku turning into a goddamn Super Saiyan or Obi-Wan letting Anakin to die in a river of fucking lava were as emotional and exciting as some chapters, specially from the third book ("A Storm of Swords").
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This is you understanding the epicness.
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I'm not a book reviewer, I don't even consider myself a devote reader, I'm just a consumer and what I expect from a book is to be well and truly entertaining... and damn it was! Treason, sex, violence, wars everywhere, honor dilemmas, “zombies”, lots of winning quotes and even some dragons!... trust me punks this is like The Expendables of fantasy books!
There are so many things I could say about this saga... but I really
should be doing other important stuff right now. *cough* thesis *cough*, also I think it's better for you to find out that stuff for yourselves. Meanwhile I'll let you with my favorite lines from the books.
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| "Those are brave men. Let's go kill them." « Tyrion Lannister (A Clash of Kings) |
“There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.” « Syrio Forel. (A Game of Thrones)
“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.” « Jaime Lannister. (A Clash of Kings)
"Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died." « Ser Jorah Mormont (A Storm of Swords)
"Don't make me rue the day I raped your mother." « Roose Bolton (A Dance with Dragons)
That's all folks, now read it! I command you!