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An ongoing series by George R. R. Martin and currently my favorite series. Four books have been written out of the predicted seven, A Dance with Dragons is currently being worked on.
The ones out by now are:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
The series (very basically) takes you through a civil war in Westeros. The author uses multiple viewpoint characters to tell the story from all sides, and is especially good and creating shades of grey in place of the clear black and white in some fantasies. There is almost always someone on the "enemy" side whom you follow and sympathize with, no one side is defined as "evil".
Another thing I really really like about the series is that the author is brutally realistic in his telling. War is supposed to be bloody and cruel and filled with death, betray, and deceit, stupid things do happen, and he leaves out none of it. What hits a reader really hard, what hit me really hard, especially when it's the first time (though it doesn't get any better) is his tendency to kill off some apparently "main" characters. He doesn't do the kind of BS story where the main characters always prevail, and you know they won't die. After the initial shocks, you're always on the edge of your seat, because you know that anyone can die, even those characters you've followed through pages and pages of the series.
Each book is pretty damn long, over seven hundred pages (and the versions I read were pretty big books), but they're well worth the read. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
The ones out by now are:
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
The series (very basically) takes you through a civil war in Westeros. The author uses multiple viewpoint characters to tell the story from all sides, and is especially good and creating shades of grey in place of the clear black and white in some fantasies. There is almost always someone on the "enemy" side whom you follow and sympathize with, no one side is defined as "evil".
Another thing I really really like about the series is that the author is brutally realistic in his telling. War is supposed to be bloody and cruel and filled with death, betray, and deceit, stupid things do happen, and he leaves out none of it. What hits a reader really hard, what hit me really hard, especially when it's the first time (though it doesn't get any better) is his tendency to kill off some apparently "main" characters. He doesn't do the kind of BS story where the main characters always prevail, and you know they won't die. After the initial shocks, you're always on the edge of your seat, because you know that anyone can die, even those characters you've followed through pages and pages of the series.
Each book is pretty damn long, over seven hundred pages (and the versions I read were pretty big books), but they're well worth the read. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
