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>Do you like those Charles. I've not read any of these but I know my children like them (thats not implying your choice is juvenile I hasten to add in these all to ready to be offended fora :-) )
Yes. I'm not particularly a fan of the genre but the Song of Ice and Fire is great literature and really epic storytelling. Not at all juvenile literature - much less so than say, Tolkein. Much less fantasy and much more alternate historical reality. And it is an absolute must to read them in sequence. One of the most successful alternate realities I've encountered in 60 years of reading.
HBO is starting a series in April and it might even do them justice. I'm in the process of re-reading the first 4 books to catch on my recollection.
Highly recommended.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
