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The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread (includes spoilers)

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But if it makes you feel better the shit I'm talking about is not related to the spoiler (singular). What I saw wasnt a whole host of leaked scripts or episode by episode summaries where I know everything. It was one specific thing and this is unrelated to that.
 
The 3 mounts and 3 headed dragon 8s confusing for the show because the night king has one now
 
My dickhead friend spoiled me with what I'm assuming Rich is talking about and I'm pissed off about it. I wanted to head into S8 spoiler free.
 
Rich said:
So I've been down a rabbit hole but Tyrion is a million percent gonna be a bad guy by the end of the books at least.

Not only does Ghost attack him shen he goes to Winterfell the first time, but the rest of the Wolves do the same when he comes back after going to the Wall.

Like, that's about a wrap on it. The direwolves simply don't make mistakes. His arc is gonna be Tywin reborn.

And then, I read an old 1999 George interview after ACOK came out and he said, without any context needed "he (Tyrion) is a villain. And we all love good villains."

Throw in everything else in the books (Quaithe specficially listing him as a person not to be trusted, him raping the slave girl in ADWD), I just don't see how it all can be ignored? But PARTICULARLY the direwolves. Thatd a big, big, BIG tell.
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I just started doing a re-read of the books (irrationally hoping to be prepared if new books ever come out) and this stuck out like a sore thumb. Just read that chapter like 3 days ago.
 
This final season cant get here fast enough I see.

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So I just finished reading all of Sanderson's Cosmere books (minus White Sands, which I'll get to soon). Freaking loved all of them.

Anyone got any other genre suggestions? Thinking about checking out Sanderson's non-cosmere stuff, or possibly Wheel of Time, but that's a big commitment. Is it good enough?
 
theSTEREO. said:
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So I just finished reading all of Sanderson's Cosmere books (minus White Sands, which I'll get to soon). Freaking loved all of them.

Anyone got any other genre suggestions? Thinking about checking out Sanderson's non-cosmere stuff, or possibly Wheel of Time, but that's a big commitment. Is it good enough?
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Wheel of Time is horrible. Early books aren't bad, then goes on forever with massive filler.

If you don't want to read about repeated tugging of braids -- and not in a good way -- skip this.

You have been warned.
 
theSTEREO. said:
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So I just finished reading all of Sanderson's Cosmere books (minus White Sands, which I'll get to soon). Freaking loved all of them.

Anyone got any other genre suggestions? Thinking about checking out Sanderson's non-cosmere stuff, or possibly Wheel of Time, but that's a big commitment. Is it good enough?
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Presumably you're looking for fantasy/SF?

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is sort of what you'd get if GRRM rather than JK Rowlings had decided to write a story about a boy attending a magic school . Extraordinarily well-written, very dark/adult. There's a sequel, which also is outstanding. He's still writing the third, but I'd say the books are good enough to warrant reading even though the series isn't finished.

Joe Abercrombie also has written a very good series, same sort of tone. I think the first book is called "The Blade Itself".

If you're at all into SF, I can't recommend Dan Simmon's Hyperion series enough.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
Presumably you're looking for fantasy/SF?

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is sort of what you'd get if GRRM rather than JK Rowlings had decided to write a story about a boy attending a magic school . Extraordinarily well-written, very dark/adult. There's a sequel, which also is outstanding. He's still writing the third, but I'd say the books are good enough to warrant reading even though the series isn't finished.

Joe Abercrombie also has written a very good series, same sort of tone. I think the first book is called "The Blade Itself".

If you're at all into SF, I can't recommend Dan Simmon's Hyperion series enough.
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Those are all great recommendations.

I've read all of Abercrombie, and loved those. The others I hadn't heard of, thanks.
 
theSTEREO. said:
Those are all great recommendations.

I've read all of Abercrombie, and loved those. The others I hadn't heard of, thanks.
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Here are some recommendations:
  • As Q-Tip mentioned, The Name of the Wind and the sequel are both great, but the author might be even less productive than GRRM and no one has any idea when the third book is coming out.
  • I'm also a big fan of the Gentleman Bastard books by Scott Lynch, although he's another author who is wildly unproductive and the series remains unfinished.
  • The Dagger & Coin series by Daniel Abraham is very good.
  • Also great by Abraham is The Long Price Quartet, which is a fantasy series with a very unique Asian-style setting.
  • Not fantasy, but Abraham teams with another author on The Expanse series, which is excellent sci-fi.
  • Abercrombie's Shattered Sea series is one of my favs, even though it's technically young adult.
  • Robin Hobb's books are all quality. I'd recommend reading them in order. All three Fitz and the Fool trilogies are good and the Liveship Traders series is one of my favorite in fantasy. I haven't read her Rain Wild books, though.
  • Glen Cook's Black Company books are a personal favorite of mine as well.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Here are some recommendations:
  • As Q-Tip mentioned, The Name of the Wind and the sequel are both great, but the author might be even less productive than GRRM and no one has any idea when the third book is coming out.
  • I'm also a big fan of the Gentleman Bastard books by Scott Lynch, although he's another author who is wildly unproductive and the series remains unfinished.
  • The Dagger & Coin series by Daniel Abraham is very good.
  • Also great by Abraham is The Long Price Quartet, which is a fantasy series with a very unique Asian-style setting.
  • Not fantasy, but Abraham teams with another author on The Expanse series, which is excellent sci-fi.
  • Abercrombie's Shattered Sea series is one of my favs, even though it's technically young adult.
  • Robin Hobb's books are all quality. I'd recommend reading them in order. All three Fitz and the Fool trilogies are good and the Liveship Traders series is one of my favorite in fantasy. I haven't read her Rain Wild books, though.
  • Glen Cook's Black Company books are a personal favorite of mine as well.
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I like Glen Cook in general, but the Black Company is my favorite too. Met him once and he's a good guy as long as you're buying.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Yeah I enjoyed the Garrett PI books as well. Those are the only things I've read by him.
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Dragon Never Sleeps and Passage at Arm's, both space stories, are both good. Also like his Dread Empire series - seems a lot of other "grimdark" people took from him.

Btw, just saw that a new Black Company book came out 2 weeks ago!
 
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