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Gameface said:
I'll tell but not yet. It is related to GoT, that's the biggest hint I'll give.
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I'll never get it then, GoT is on my list but I haven't watched it yet.
 
Came up with this one as I have been started reading the first book for some time now. It's a cover made in a TV show in TRT, the official TV and radio channel for Turkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yInwFu9NfE
 
So I started reading the first book on my kindle about 2 weeks ago. I am about half-way through. It is a HUGE book. I am a fast reader (to catch up to my family I read all of the first 5 Harry Potter books in just under 10 days), but it is a pretty dense read. However, once you get into it and start putting the pieces together it is a fantastic story, very well-written. That guy is a master at using very few words to give a strong feeling of the vastness and deep history of the realm without needing a ton of exposition. He builds the characters, even as many as he is trying to follow, in a way that helps you get to know them and care about them.

Maybe the best thing is how he transitions, naming each chapter after the character to whose viewpoint he is switching, and he gives you enough of a short intro in each chapter so you get right into it, even if he hasn't visited that character in a few chapters (or 8).

But it is a dense read. Lots of different characters, not even just the main characters whose viewpoint you get to see but other side-characters really matter too. Lots of insinuation; lots of learning things by what other characters say and interpreting it against the current character's understanding of that character. Yeah it's a lot of processing, but very enjoyable. But it is a tough one to just pick up and read a few pages when you have a couple of minutes. You have to really get into it.

I think I will start watching the series after I finish the first book and then alternate watching a season after reading the book it is based on.
 
LogGrad98 said:
So I started reading the first book on my kindle about 2 weeks ago. I am about half-way through. It is a HUGE book. I am a fast reader (to catch up to my family I read all of the first 5 Harry Potter books in just under 10 days), but it is a pretty dense read. However, once you get into it and start putting the pieces together it is a fantastic story, very well-written. That guy is a master at using very few words to give a strong feeling of the vastness and deep history of the realm without needing a ton of exposition. He builds the characters, even as many as he is trying to follow, in a way that helps you get to know them and care about them.

Maybe the best thing is how he transitions, naming each chapter after the character to whose viewpoint he is switching, and he gives you enough of a short intro in each chapter so you get right into it, even if he hasn't visited that character in a few chapters (or 8).

But it is a dense read. Lots of different characters, not even just the main characters whose viewpoint you get to see but other side-characters really matter too. Lots of insinuation; lots of learning things by what other characters say and interpreting it against the current character's understanding of that character. Yeah it's a lot of processing, but very enjoyable. But it is a tough one to just pick up and read a few pages when you have a couple of minutes. You have to really get into it.

I think I will start watching the series after I finish the first book and then alternate watching a season after reading the book it is based on.
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I think that's why I have given up reading in my first try. I was pretty young back then so I couldn't quite appreciate the character development.

After having watched the series though, I decided to read it all before the new season starts and I caught up to Feast of Crows which didn't include some characters that I liked but it wasn't still a bad read. After I finished Feast of Crows, I decided to take it slow but it seems that I need to read a Dance with Dragons as well because season 5 will include characters that were in there and not in Feast of Crows.

It's a pity because I wanted to let it sink some before I picked it up and wanted to take it slow because there isn't a book after a Dance with Dragons yet.
 
Book three is the ****
 
Hekate said:
I think that's why I have given up reading in my first try. I was pretty young back then so I couldn't quite appreciate the character development.

After having watched the series though, I decided to read it all before the new season starts and I caught up to Feast of Crows which didn't include some characters that I liked but it wasn't still a bad read. After I finished Feast of Crows, I decided to take it slow but it seems that I need to read a Dance with Dragons as well because season 5 will include characters that were in there and not in Feast of Crows.

It's a pity because I wanted to let it sink some before I picked it up and wanted to take it slow because there isn't a book after a Dance with Dragons yet.
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Yeah my wife was interested but she doesn't like books that she calls "plodding", she likes books that pull you along, like Dean Koontz for example, so it isn't for her. But in no way did I find the plot plodding, but you definitely have to pay attention, so it isn't for everyone. Although I think everyone who enjoys stories like this need to read it. He really revived a fairly stagnant genre, and maybe we will get some good similar stories from other authors in the future as a result.

That said I will still probably get her to read it, because it is a good story with good characters.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Yeah my wife was interested but she doesn't like books that she calls "plodding", she likes books that pull you along, like Dean Koontz for example, so it isn't for her.
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Tell her to read Blake Crouch. Seriously, you must tell her.
Make her start with either his book called "Run", or his trillogy called "Pines"


I will guarantee that she will love them...... also the pines trilogy will be a new television show this year starring terrence howard, juliette lewis, and matt dillon
 
fishonjazz said:
Tell her to read Blake Crouch. Seriously, you must tell her.
Make her start with either his book called "Run", or his trillogy called "Pines"


I will guarantee that she will love them...... also the pines trilogy will be a new television show this year starring terrence howard, juliette lewis, and matt dillon
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I won't read them. I can't stand Juliette Lewis.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I won't read them. I can't stand Juliette Lewis.
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I was not asking you to read them. I was telling you to let your wife know about them cause they seem like the type of book your wife would like.


Oh and btw, juliette lewis is not in the book so you don't have to worry about that
 
fishonjazz said:
I was not asking you to read them. I was telling you to let your wife know about them cause they seem like the type of book your wife would like.


Oh and btw, juliette lewis is not in the book so you don't have to worry about that
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yeah but you put faces onto characters and those faces get destroyed when they shoot it as a tv show or movie, u know.
 
fishonjazz said:
I was not asking you to read them. I was telling you to let your wife know about them cause they seem like the type of book your wife would like.


Oh and btw, juliette lewis is not in the book so you don't have to worry about that
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Seriously, thanks for the recommendation. I was just messing around about not reading due to Juliette Lewis. But I legit cannot stand her. She makes me think of that girl everyone knew in school who seemed all nice and sweet but had that look and vibe about her that said she was really a slut who like it up the tailpipe. Creepy.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Seriously, thanks for the recommendation. I was just messing around about not reading due to Juliette Lewis. But I legit cannot stand her. She makes me think of that girl everyone knew in school who seemed all nice and sweet but had that look and vibe about her that said she was really a slut who like it up the tailpipe. Creepy.
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Fwiw I'm not a big fan either. Good news is that for the tv show she will not be one of the lead characters..... which is surprising, but good.

Also, I don't know how you feel about m night shamalan (most seem to hate him) but he is the producer of the show. I don't know how much the producer has to do with the quality of a show anyways but he is involved.

Its a creepy, fast paced, apocalytic thriller of a story.
 
fishonjazz said:
Fwiw I'm not a big fan either. Good news is that for the tv show she will not be one of the lead characters..... which is surprising, but good.

Also, I don't know how you feel about m night shamalan (most seem to hate him) but he is the producer of the show. I don't know how much the producer has to do with the quality of a show anyways but he is involved.

Its a creepy, fast paced, apocalytic thriller of a story.
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Apocalyptic? Sign me up.
 
addictionary said:
Apocalyptic? Sign me up.
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I probably should not have even said that..... I have said to much.
Just read it.
3 book series, all of them VERY good, and each book is not too long
 
fishonjazz said:
I probably should not have even said that..... I have said to much.
Just read it.
3 book series, all of them VERY good, and each book is not too long
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I'm in. Kindle working on them now.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I'm in. Kindle working on them now.
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I rock the kindle as well.
I'm reading the dark tower series again right now and I already have all the actual books so I tried to start reading it in book form and quickly gave up.

Kindle is way better to read from than an actual book.


I have forgotten the face of my father (hangs head in shame)
 
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