Game of Thrones | A song of Ice and Fire
I asked about recommendations of how to watch the GOT HBO series. Some one really cool advised me to read the books. I had no idea that the books existed. So in the next one hour I had purchased five books and they happily landed in my Kindle.
I avoided watching any trailers, episode prequels, intros or anything remotely related to the GOT TV Series. I only knew who played the dwarf {Thanks to Facebook Memes} and that too became a permanent visualisation whenever I read the novel any thing he was doing or saying, the real person would come up in my imagination.
I had read the Harry Potter Series all together in one go and then watched the movies. It was a wonderful experience (both the books and movies). Also reading God Father after watching the brilliant movie told me that there is no replacement for beautiful novel.
Anyhow enough of preaching Books over Visual Media, the novel itself was very long and that turned out a bit of turn off in the beginning. I knew I would never be able to finish it but finish I did and that too in only one month (during a time when I was extremely busy in other tasks).
The characters development and the plot is very slow. So slow that you can actually crawl with the horses. The slowness did not hamper the canvas of characters that the novel introduced. Every person's persona was complete and one could see them clearly in the mind's eye. Even the guards of the castles or personal servants were throughly described.
The plot itself and the idea of Ice and Fire were central theme. Whenever I thought the plot will move in this direction it always surprised me and things went altogether different. Until the last sentence I was spell bound and hooked.
I can't go into the details because I don't wish to spoil anybody's imagination.
I avoided watching any trailers, episode prequels, intros or anything remotely related to the GOT TV Series. I only knew who played the dwarf {Thanks to Facebook Memes} and that too became a permanent visualisation whenever I read the novel any thing he was doing or saying, the real person would come up in my imagination.
I had read the Harry Potter Series all together in one go and then watched the movies. It was a wonderful experience (both the books and movies). Also reading God Father after watching the brilliant movie told me that there is no replacement for beautiful novel.
Anyhow enough of preaching Books over Visual Media, the novel itself was very long and that turned out a bit of turn off in the beginning. I knew I would never be able to finish it but finish I did and that too in only one month (during a time when I was extremely busy in other tasks).
The characters development and the plot is very slow. So slow that you can actually crawl with the horses. The slowness did not hamper the canvas of characters that the novel introduced. Every person's persona was complete and one could see them clearly in the mind's eye. Even the guards of the castles or personal servants were throughly described.
The plot itself and the idea of Ice and Fire were central theme. Whenever I thought the plot will move in this direction it always surprised me and things went altogether different. Until the last sentence I was spell bound and hooked.
I can't go into the details because I don't wish to spoil anybody's imagination.
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