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- Verlag: Bantam (22. März 2011)
- ASIN: B005Z64J7E
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The storyline is incredible and always keeps you guessing. Martin will do whatever it takes to further the story in a realistic way. As so many reviewers have stated in the past, there is a moral greyness surrounding the characters that adds interest to the story.
You may have noticed that in the title, I stated that this book was not for everyone, and indeed, it is not. If violence and/or sexual situations make you uncomfortable, then you may find this book unsettling. The violence and sex are not gratuitous; instead, they help show you the realities of the world as it was. I have no problem with this, but I have seen several reviewers who are looking for an escape to a happy fairy-land fantasy, which this most definitely is not. Also, if you enjoy having every character in a novel capable of levelling a city with a thought or tossing fireballs about like confetti (i.e., The Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth books, among others), then you will be disappointed; the magic in this book is subtle and mysterious, to both the characters and the reader.
I have read only three other works of Fantasy that are on par with Martin's work, and they are Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy, Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and of course, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Of all of these, Martin's works remind me most of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, which he claims was part of his inspiration for writing in this genre.
Martin's prose is extremely well written, with the descriptions bringing things to life in your mind. The dialogue is also brisk and clever. The story is told from multiple points of view, which adds suspense and flavor to the story, as well as allowing the author to bring each character to life, making us love them sometimes and hate them at other times.
If you are sick of bloated and repetitious fantasy where everyone is omnipotent and characters are static and boring, pick of A Game of Thrones and its sequel, A Clash of Kings - I promise that you won't be disappointed.
This book is not for the easily offended. It is very probably not for young children, unless very mature. It contains realistic acts of violence, murder, explicit sexuality, vulgar language, greed, cowardice, deceit, and _politics_. It is often grim and dark, with good characters hurt and wicked characters rewarded. And, indeed, most of the characters are rather more grey than black and white in their goodness and wickedness.
This novel is also the first of six books in an epic fantasy series, by necessity all interwoven together, and so it does not tell a complete story on its own. It also uses a narrative technique where many characters have POV chapters, and these chapters can be widely separated, sometimes even cutting into the middle of the current action and leaving one hanging for half-a-dozen (or more) intervening POV chapters of other characters.
If any of these things make you run for cover, you can now pass this novel by safe in the knowledge that it does not suit your tastes.
With that aside:
_A Game of Thrones_ is one of the most brilliant fantasy novels written in the last five decades. Bold and forceful, unblinking in the face of doing terrible and unexpected things to characters, Mr. Martin has shown that epic fantasy is more than just magic and monsters. This is a story about the complex interactions between people, and the things they do for vengeance, for love, for power. The characters are perfectly drawn, because they are human - some are brilliant, some are ignorant, many are "normal", and _all_ make mistakes. The magnificent sweep of events, the fateful choices that lead to glory or to death (or both at once), the precious peace in the eye of the storm - it's all there, laid out as true to reality as one can imagine.
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