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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 :-) )
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>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.
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>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.
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>Highly recommended.

I'll see if the ungrateful little bastards will lend me one,. :-)