Game of Thrones - No spoilers

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Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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The run has started on Sky one tonight.

Had forgotten how ace that beginning is.biggrin

The hour has stretched to 80 mins...scratchchin

Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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richtea78 said:
Mance Rayder cast, which I believe means the last of the big parts for S3 is confirmed

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/08/17/game-of-thrones-...

Ciaran Hinds - good actor but older than I expected
I'm disappointed in this. I really had David Thewliss down as Mance for some reason.

Halb

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182 months

Sunday 16th September 2012
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Watchman said:
I'm disappointed in this. I really had David Thewliss down as Mance for some reason.
I couldn't imagine that streak of piss as a warrior.biggrin

FiF

43,965 posts

250 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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ExFiF said:
I'm half way through book 5 and more or less stuck. Chucked it down last night after several pages of Martin approaching Tolkein's up his own 'arris style. Sorry but... wobble
Well I left it for a while, got the paperbacks and realised that what was partly brassing me off was the sheer weight of th hardback making bedtime reading a strain.

So I've stuck it to the end, got back into it and....



W............ T............ F.............. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can now read those earlier spoilers.

ali_kat

31,988 posts

220 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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Kindle wink

Worth the £££ just for these!

Halb

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182 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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FiF said:
W............ T............ F.............. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can now read those earlier spoilers.
Haha, yeah, there's a few!

One of the benefits of having a single thread for a series.biggrin

blueg33

35,590 posts

223 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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When is it back on TV?

When is the next book due out?

Need a fix

Halb

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182 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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Telly will be next Spring. And that'll be before a book I'll wager, seven hells!

blueg33

35,590 posts

223 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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Halb said:
Telly will be next Spring. And that'll be before a book I'll wager, seven hells!
Thats ages frown

FUBAR

17,062 posts

237 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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blueg33 said:
Thats ages frown
They've recently started showing S1 from the beginning. Guess they wil do S2 after to set us up for S3.

richtea78

5,574 posts

157 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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I will be amazed if the book is here within 3 years

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Monday 1st October 2012
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The Others take you!

richtea78

5,574 posts

157 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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There are sample chapters on GRRMs websites but they do contain spoilers.

Winds of Winter will be around 1500 pages and he has 200 done already. 3 years is a conservative estimate.

In the meantime Ive preordered

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lands-Ice-Fire-Song/dp...


roogi

245 posts

158 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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I finished the fifth book a while ago and I'm a bit stuck with what to read now, any suggestions?

Halb

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53,012 posts

182 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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I think I'll reread JRR's stuff this winter, along with the full set of Discworld novels.biggrin

Nightmare

5,182 posts

283 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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roogi said:
I finished the fifth book a while ago and I'm a bit stuck with what to read now, any suggestions?
depends what you like most about it.....as 'fantasy' books go they're so historically based its hard to think of anything particularly similar.
for some ace fantasy try Steven Eriksons ' Malazan books of the fallen' series - utter genius but do take some reading to get into
Joe Abercrombies first series is also a bit different and entertaining.
If you've not read Legend by David Gemmel you should...only fantasy book to appear in the Times top 40...though I prefer Waylander.

blackburnlad

141 posts

152 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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which book would i have to start reading to be at were season 2 finished

FiF

43,965 posts

250 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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To be quite honest you should start at book one and work through. You will find a stack of things that were either glossed over in seasons one and two, or that were there but perhaps you didn't fully get it.

I know that isn't the answer you wanted, but the problem is that the plot in some of the books is parallel in time to other books, if you see what I mean. So season two took bits out of books two and three.

So I'd suggest read book 1, watch season 1 again, and so on.

blackburnlad

141 posts

152 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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orite thanks for the quick answer guess ive got a lot of reading to do

richtea78

5,574 posts

157 months

Tuesday 2nd October 2012
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Friend of mine started reading with book 3 assuming that this would be ok as he had seen S1 and S2 on TV. He then got very confused as some of the characters in book 3 are interoduced in Book 2 but were not in Season 2 of the TV show.

Halbs man crush Ramsey Bolton being one for example.

I think you could possibly skip Book 1 if you wanted to and not miss out too much although it would be recommended to read them all. You can get books 1-4 as box sets relatively cheapley I have noticed.
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