Game of Thrones

[Irving]

So HBO is making a series out of George R.R. Martin's The Song of Fire and Ice series. Game of Thrones is the first book, and will be the first series.

http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html#

Go here, click on the picture on the left, and watch the first 15 minutes of the first episode.

Usually when fantasy books are put on screen, I don't have high hopes for them. A great example is how Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was put on regular television and called "Legend of the Seeker." That was a decent series, that was complete, unwatchable, garbage when it made it onto television. I read all 12 books and have watches less than 10 minutes of the series because it is so terrible.

With Game of Thrones being on HBO, and with the series being one of the best I've ever read (Top 5 for sure), I have very high hopes for this series. Even from the trailer, everything happens pretty much exactly like it does in the book. The whole first scene in snow, is one of those scenes that is important to a book, but would get cut from the screen 99% of the time.

I won't try and explain why the series is so great, you're better off just reading the books, but expect this to be awesome.

*If you're read the Sword of Truth series, I know SAFriday has, this series is MUCH better and more complex.