The FBG Top 300 Books of All Time (fiction edition) | #6 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin | Running list in posts #3 and #4 (23 Viewers)

[CletiusMaximus]

This clip was funny when it was released 10 years ago

https://x.com/mrjerseyjosh/status/1829549225421815896?s=46

 

[Frostillicus]

I ranked Game of Thrones #8, the highest of the ASOIAF books I ranked (book #3 was somewhere too). As someone said above, this book pulls no punches and there is no plot armor. The majority of the fantasy style books I had read up until I got to this one pretty much protected their main characters. Oh sure, there was always one death to pull at the heartstrings, but if the good guys were a group of 7 you can bet 6 survived. And that was a winning formula.

Then comes this book. First

Spoiler

Bran's

fate introduces you that this might not be the same kind of book you're used to. Then

Spoiler

the King

dies. There comes all the death that comes with rebellion - some barelly noticeable, others slightly sad. Then, suddenly, the guy who is clearly the main character and set up to be the hero

Spoiler

at the end of all the books dies. Beheaded. Out of nowhere. In front of his daughters.

W. T. F.

Then

Spoiler

Khal Drogo

dies.

And throughout it all, "Winter is coming" and there's the glimpses of some kind of supernatural threat up north.

Fantastic book. Not your typical fantasy. Far superior.

Thanks for that spoiler-free review.

Speaking of spoilers, does anyone want to take a stab at the top 5? I'll neither confirm nor deny, but could be some bragging rights down the line.
@Dr. Octopus , please don't join in.

Well you people should have read this by now.

 

[scoobus]

I read this book well after I watched the TV show, and I still couldn't believe when they killed Ned!

 

[krista4]

The Stand
Slaughterhouse Five
1984
To Kill A MockingBird
The Lord of the Rings

These are definitely the five. The order is the only question.