I thoroughly enjoyed this and as I neared the end, it became harder and harder to put down. I enjoy the way the chapter titles tell whose point of view it is told in. I'd see the title and start hoping I'd learn about this or that.... I'm not as enamoured with the actual battle descriptions, but most of the book is occupied with showing the lives of non-combatants, many of who are richly intelligent and resourceful. I love reading about smart people...
I had watched the first season on HBO prior to picking up the books. I'd had a bit of trouble keeping up with and following the series, but the book explained all. The description of the Eyrie really helped because that episode of the tv show had really confused me. I might have stopped watching the series if I hadn't read A Game of Thrones. Now, I have finished the second book before the second season of the series...I intend to stay ahead of the series from now on. I think I'll understand it better. However, I won't blow through the series like TR did. I need a break between books. (A different 'verse.... for a while). I read The Lord of the Rings all the way through at once and the first two Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, but I was way younger then.
I am now starting Laurell K Hamilton's A Stroke of Midnight, the fourth book in her Meredith Gentry series. Meredith (Merry) is half fey, half human and the books are adventures in a dangerous world, but are also very erotic (at least from a female viewpoint.) I really enjoy these books.
I divided my "epic" pile into two piles because it was becoming ungainly. I now have the A Game of Thrones series and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant in one pile and the Clan of the Cave Bear series and several Arthurian legend books in the second. I've read The Mists of Avalon and greatly enjoyed it. On tv we are watching Merlin and watched Stars' Camelot and that has inspired me to read Malory's Morte d'Artur and White's The Once and Future King.
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