A Game of Thrones ~George R. R. Martin
–published 1996
–Bantam Books
–807 pages
–1997 Locus Award Winner, 1997 Hugo Winner, best novella, for Daenerys portions of the novel.
–5/5 stars
It doesn’t take much to get me to read your favorite book. Really, it is pretty simple. First you simply buy me the book and tell me several times how much you enjoy it. Then you wait…for years. When a goodly amount of time has passed, you take me to a convention to hear the author speak and read a chapter from his forthcoming book in the same series…a mere week before your latest birthday celebration. Like I said, simple.
While this may sound facetious, this is a fairly accurate portrayal of the events that had to come together before I began reading the first book in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Game of Thrones. Once I started in earnest, Mr. Martin’s storytelling took over and in a mere three days I finished this enormous volume. It wasn’t just the fact that I couldn’t put it down, it was that I did not want to put it down. For anything.
I am an avowed chunkster hater. I have also been quite vocal in the past about my dislike of long, drawn out book series, particularly ones that have yet to be finished. And now, The Others take me, I’m hooked!
