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Originally Posted by Engine
Is that unpopular? Those are my favorite two
Here's mine: Martin's A Game of Thrones is boring as ****, far outshined by the GoT HBO adaptation season one. I like the subsequent books though
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You know I actually agree with that last one. I really haven't had much of a desire to go back and read
A Game of Thrones, but I think that's kind of the problem with long running book series', when you see how awesome the characters get by the end. It's hard to seem them go back to the beginning, before the trials and tribulations that would transform them into the characters we love now.
As for the HBO series' first season, it was beautifully realized in scale and did a wonderful job bringing the world to life. The first book in a series is always setup, and you can do setup in a lot more depth in a visual medium, a stage an author could devote several paragraphs to describing can be done in a few carefully arranged frames if you've got a competent director, which the TV series has had up to until Alex Graves fu
cked the dog in "Breaker of Chains".
Oh also, word up on
Dead Eye Dick