Game of Thrones

[yakalskovich]

Just now, a UPS guy bearing a heavier-than-expected package toppled over my threshold and almost fell into my entrance area. It was an unusually large package from Amazon, and it contained a doorstopper, which you can see on this picture (while the cats are making short work of the leftover milk from my bran flakes, as usual).

Yep, I caved and bought the books after all. They were only 20 Euros, in a box with Ned Stark on the one side, Daenerys on the other. I thought that was worth it.

Comments

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

I actually am doing the TV series first and then the books. I did that with Pillars of the Earth and wound up loving the series. It's been my experience that if I read the books first, I hate the movie rendition. I always have an idea of what the film should be like in my head (I essentially create the scenes for film while I am reading -- quirky, and invariably I am disappointed.

The only exception to that rule has been Harry Potter because I accepted them as children's books and was determined to like them.

We can do a read-a-long of Song of Ice and Fire when the series finishes?

[yakalskovich]

Oh, absolutely, that sounds like a brilliant idea. We can make a comm and invite Scot!Jen (who plans to do the same) along, and then read it and chat about it while we do...

[idylchild.livejournal.com]

YAY! I did a read-a-long for all the HP books and then for Carlos Ruiz Zafon's other works (non- Shadow of the Wind) and it was so much fun.

:D

[yakalskovich]

It'll be fun, yes!