What the hell does the Boolk now with another fantasy author here? Let's put it that way. George Raymond Richard Martin has again made me feel like it was reading a book at that time 10-14 years ago, to devour it in "no time". One feels quite young - especially if one reads parallel "King Lear" ... at a pace of 1 act per month (maximum). As you look forward to that as a ham is eaten by around 600 pages in two weeks.
"The Song of Ice and Fire" is a monumental late work of a man who succeeds on the basis of a wide variety of characters to tell a coherent story. That's what I really liked, as he often speaks of an event from the perspective of different protagonists - and antagonists. Martin drives a game with the reader, especially with the Get to know people from a picture. Dark, violent characters are introduced, described by one of the "good" to be extended to some details later chapter that upset the image of the person entirely. That's one of the greatest pleasures that prepares its readers the author. A veritable feast of impressive, winning and new characters!
"A Game of Thrones" is about the rivalries of individuals and kingdoms on the continent a fantasy world, while a very long winter period after several years of summer is expected. The Stark family, which dominates the north with the titanic border wall against the wild northerners, is the focal point of the first book. While the father Lord Eddard Stark is appointed to the royal court to advise his old friend the king, the reader follows the lives of many sons and daughters of the Stark family, as well as their Lady Catelyn. Magic and Supernatural is indicated only tender in the first volume - and is one of the great strengths of the book. Finally, readers will find a world full of magic, especially after Lord Stark remembered the dragon skeletons that have been hanging in the King's Hall, and his daughter stumbles in the basement on the giant heads. The attitude of people towards magic and heroic tales is similar to ours. The children laughed at when they talk about recurring dreams and dead. Yet the supernatural accompanied by the reader from the first pages, and dive and on to destroy the people and the reader, frighten, and to leave behind a sense of seething danger that seems to explode - but until the last Page does not. Fantastic!
Likewise, the talent George RR Martins to describe moods, events, feelings and thoughts of various men, women and children, and to make us sympathize, precisely in order to introduce a chapter continues the events in a different light. Voltage guarantee the pesky cliffhanger, and some people jumped already chapter to continue reading - it will be exciting.
I got recommended the book and am grateful. It's also nice to read a well-thumbed copy - linking. In the fall of the fifth volume of the saga appears, let's see if I've caught up to then.
All the others had said that this number is just right for fans of fantasy literature, to immerse themselves for several weeks and months in a detailed and finely woven story, want to experience many moments of different reading enjoyment and some also want to learn about people.
The saga is also published in German. The first volume is called:
The lords of Winterfell. A Song of Ice and Fire 1
