(Part 2) Top products from r/asoiaf
We found 81 product mentions on r/asoiaf. We ranked the 338 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
22. Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, From A Game of Thrones to A Dance with Dragons
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 5
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24. A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 5
Bantam
Show Reddit reviews25. The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
Sentiment score: 4
Number of reviews: 5
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27. Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 4
John Wiley Sons
Show Reddit reviews28. Legends : Discworld, Pern, Song of Ice and Fire, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel of Time
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 4
Show Reddit reviews29. A Game of Thrones Boardgame Second Edition
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 4
A board game based on A Game of Thrones, a novel now adapted to an HBO series3–6 players take command of the Great Houses of WesterosUpdated second edition, incorporates elements of past expansionsFeatures a streamlined rulebook and updated artIncludes welcome new enhancements like Tides of Battle...
Show Reddit reviews30. A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire)
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 4
Bantam
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32. The Ice Dragon
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 4
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews33. A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 3
Great product!
Show Reddit reviews34. Le Trone de Fer T1 - La Glace Et Le Feu (Science Fiction) (French Edition)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
Show Reddit reviews35. The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
The Wit Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister
Show Reddit reviews36. A Game of Thrones: D20-Based Open Gaming RPG
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 3
Used Book in Good Condition
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38. Legends 2 : Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 3
Used Book in Good Condition
Show Reddit reviews39. A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 3
Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire, the high fantasy magnum opus of George R.R. Martin
Show Reddit reviews40. The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel (A Game of Thrones)
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 3
This comic book/graphic novel adaptation is set one hundred years before the events in George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire!The Hedge Knight chronicles a young squire as he travels the cruel and complex path to knighthood in the Seven Kingdoms.184 pages.Paperback.Dimensio...
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Joe Abercrombie. His style and the philosophy of his writing are similar to Martin. There are no good guys and bad guys in the sense that everybody has their own motives and act on them yet there are still clear protagonists and antagonists. They books focus on a smaller cast of characters and the world is less enormous but the characters are very well realized and the entire series is about 1 and a half times the size of a aSoIaF book. What really made it great for me is that Abercrombie is great at writing intrigue as well as humor that doesn't compromise the narrative.
Here is the link to the The Blade Itself, first book in Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy, and for a bonus here's an video of Joe Abercrombie interviewing GRRM about the Game of Thrones TV series.
If you want a longer review here's a pretty good one from Amazon.
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>I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. I read the blurb from the back and nearly turned away after reading only half of the summary. But something made me open it up and try the first few pages--and I was hooked. It starts with an action scene--like most fantasy novels--and it is described so well. It is realistic without splattering gore in your face. I can't think of any other author who treads that line so well as Joe Abercrombie does in The Blade Itself.
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>I didn't find this a funny book, overall. It's not a comedy at all. But there are several moments where I did laugh out loud as I read some clever description or a reaction of one of the characters. In fact I think I found more to smile at in this book than most other novels that are specifically tagged as being funny or humourous. The humour here isn't forced. I didn't feel like the author was trying to be funny. It was more like the humour you might find in casual conversation with a friend.
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>This book moves along at a good pace. It is one of those books where you want to keep reading to find out what happens, but, unlike many other page-turners, things actually happen in this one! I hate books that promise action or resolution just over the next page, just another page, one more page, and before you know it you've read half the book and still nothing's happened. This is definitely not a one-trick pony of a book. Each character is well developed and the plots intertwine naturally.
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>What this book doesn't contain are tired old writing techniques. Well, it's not perfect, but it's as close as I've come across in 15 years. Anyway, there are no stereotypical cliched fantasy characters. The author doesn't end each chapter on a contrived cliff-hanger and then talk about another character's life for ten chapters before returning to the cliff-hanger. He doesn't especially dwell on the gruesome details of battle, but he writes it as realistically as you'd want. Perhaps not super-realistic--this is a fantasy, after all--but it's not nearly as predictable as many.
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>Something else I noticed about the writing style is that Joe will change his writing a little to suit each character. So each time he changes the perspective to a new character, the way he describes the scenes changes, too. It's like he's letting us look through each of their eyes, rather than just giving us a homogenous narration throughout. They're not jarring transitions by any means, though. For me they really added to the story and made it all the more absorbing.
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>This is by far the most absorbing novel I have read for many years. And this is the most glowing review I have given any book on Amazon!
CAUTION! SPOILERS FROM A DANCE WITH DRAGONS AHEAD. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK:
Here is textual evidence and hints at Connington's sexual orientation. Much of it is expressed through his guilt of how he felt he failed Rhaegar, and through holding on to memories of Rhaegar. Note that asterisk [](/s "") denote italicized text which does not work within spoiler tags. GRRM uses this to specifically denote thoughts of the POV character (though I did not correct this with all the below text). Please appreciate the limited amount I am giving you, since almost the entire chapter is filled with thoughts of Rhaegar, and I do not want to insert the entire chapter. Read at your own risk-major ADWD spoilers contained within!:
[ADWD-Tyrion](/s ""Lord Connington was the prince’s dearest friend, was he not?”
Young Griff pushed a lock of blue hair out of his eyes. “They were squires together at King’s Landing.”
“A true friend, our Lord Connington. He must be, to remain so fiercely loyal to the grandson of the king who took his lands and titles and sent him into exile. A pity about that."")
[ADWD-Connington](/s "Yet when they parted, Jon Connington did not go to the sept. Instead his steps led him up to the roof of the east tower, the tallest at Griffin’s Roost. As he climbed he remembered past ascents—a hundred with his lord father, who liked to stand and look out over woods and crags and sea and know that all he saw belonged to House Connington, and one (only one!) with Rhaegar Targaryen. Prince Rhaegar was returning from Dorne, and he and his escort had lingered here a fortnight. He was so young then, and I was younger. Boys, the both of us. At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp. Not the men, of course. Particularly not his own father, whose only love was land.")
[ADWD-Connington](/s ""Your father’s lands are beautiful,” Prince Rhaegar had said, standing right where Jon was standing now. And the boy he’d been had replied, “One day they will all be mine.” As if that could impress a prince who was heir to the entire realm, from the Arbor to the Wall.
Griffin’s Roost had been his, eventually, if only for a few short years. From here, Jon Connington had ruled broad lands extending many leagues to the west, north, and south, just as his father and his father’s father had before him. But his father and his father’s father had never lost their lands. He had. I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell. ...")
[ADWD-Connington](/s "He was young and full of pride. How not? King Aerys had named him Hand and given him an army, and he meant to prove himself worthy of that trust, of Rhaegar’s love. He would slay the rebel lord himself and carve a place out for himself in all the histories of the Seven Kingdoms. ...")
[Connington](/s "For years afterward, Jon Connington told himself that he was not to blame, that he had done all that any man could do. His soldiers searched every hole and hovel, he offered pardons and rewards, he took hostages and hung them in crow cages and swore that they would have neither food nor drink until Robert was delivered to him. All to no avail. “Tywin Lannister himself could have done no more,” he had insisted one night to Blackheart, during his first year of exile.")
[Connington](/s "“There is where you’re wrong,” Myles Toyne had replied. “Lord Tywin would not have bothered with a search. He would have burned that town and every living creature in it. Men and boys, babes at the breast, noble knights and holy septons, pigs and whores, rats and rebels, he would have burned them all. When the fires guttered out and only ash and cinders remained, he would have sent his men in to find the bones of Robert Baratheon. Later, when Stark and Tully turned up with their host, he would have offered pardons to the both of them, and they would have accepted and turned for home with their tails between their legs.”")
[Connington](/s "He was not wrong, Jon Connington reflected, leaning on the battlements of his forebears. I wanted the glory of slaying Robert in single combat, and I did not want the name of butcher. So Robert escaped me and cut down Rhaegar on the Trident*. “I failed the father,” he said, “but I will not fail the son.”")
[Connington](/s "A bride for our bright prince. Jon Connington remembered Prince Rhaegar’s wedding all too well. Elia was never worthy of him. She was frail and sickly from the first, and childbirth only left her weaker.")
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[ADWD-Kevan Lannister](/s "Ser Kevan wished that he could share his certainty. He had known Jon Connington, slightly—a proud youth, the most headstrong of the gaggle of young lordlings who had gathered around Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, competing for his royal favor. Arrogant, but able and energetic.")
A key thing to remember when reading from Jon Connington's POV is that he knows who he is. He is not going to come out and explicitly think "I am gay for Rhaegar." He knows he loves Rhaegar, and has known since he was a young squire. He does not need to reaffirm it to us as readers because we are simply getting the privilege to get into his head. This is part of what makes GRRM a fantastic writer. Despite what we may want to be told explicitly, he simply refuses to make the character act, well, out of character. JonCon knows who he is, what he is. He does not need to tell himself. Just like all of those times we want someone to go deeper into the Winterfell crypts, we have to think "why the hell would they?"
And that is all I will give you. There is more, to be certain, but if you wish to have the full experience please buy A Dance With Dragons and read it. I recommend e-books if you are a very big fan. That way you can, as I do, search through them on your computer when you wish to find evidence for a pet theory or discussion.
Hello! Hello! Thank you for re-posting. It's always fun when someone finished ADWD. That moment of relief... that feeling that there's nothing else out there... but THERE TOTALLY IS!
Novellas, Novellettes, a Re-Read and TWOW Sample Chapters
You finished the 5 ASOIAF books. Great! But there's more ASOIAF-universe material out there. Have you read Dunk & Egg, The Princess and the Queen or the Rogue Prince? And do you know about The World of Ice and Fire: GRRM's History of Planetos? Furthermore, it's a universally accepted fact that your re-read will be much, much better than your first read. Here's some links!
Also, if you're inclined, there are 10 chapters from The Winds of Winter currently in existence (some have been released, some read). Check out /r/asoiaf's TWOW page if interested!
ASOIAF News, Forums & Information
A Best-Of GRRM's Media Interviews
GRRM gives some fantastic interviews. Here are some of my favorites!
Favorite Posts & Mysteries
So, you just finished ADWD. How about a best-of for theories out there! Here's my favorites:
Favorite ASOIAF pages
Analysis, theories, great fan-blogs. These bring the series together in magnificent ways. My picks:
Podcasts
Like podcasts? Me too! Here are my favorites!
Social Media Worth Following
Social media is good and fun. These are some of the ones I like a lot!
Twitter Accounts
Facebook Accounts
Tumblr Accounts
This should tide you over for the time being! Let me know if you want more!
If you are referring to this one https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Board-Second/dp/1589947207 then yes.
If you really love board games and you have enough friends that would embark on the journey that is the GoT board game, def buy it. My friends and I play it a few times a month. It's a very complex(yet at the same time simple) board game. It takes about 4 hours to complete, however. If you don't think you'll have enough people to spend the time and brainpower on the 4 hour game I suggest buying the expansion packs which are for four players. If you try to play the original version with 5 or 4, it won't end fairly due to the open lands being too easy for southern house to snatch up.
Overall... yes. It rules.
Richard K. Morgan: A land fit for heroes
It's a pretty damn good fantasy series. I got into it because his cyberpunk noir novels were so damn good. Altered Carbon and the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs novels were excellent.
Also, I was lucky enough to have friends immediately recommend Joe Abercrombie post asoiaf. The First Law Trilogy is absolutely gripping. Personally, I think it's better than asoiaf.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/055338595X/ref=tmm_pap_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1344365548&sr=8-1
Well Amazon says it doesn't ship until March of 2013. But that sounds a little late. Personally I just gave up and bought the hardcover. But maybe one day I'll will own all the fancy hardcover ones. It costs WAY to much but you do get nicer maps, pretty little gold inlay, and it just looks better imo.
The first three were released as part of a larger collection of novellas from other popular fantasy writers. I'll break it down for you, since I have all 3 of them on my kindle...
The Hedge Knight is included in this book: Legends
The Sworn Sword is in this book: Legends II
The Mystery Knight is in this book: Warriors
The other novellas that are included in these collections are also pretty good, so if you're in to fantasy you might as well check them out. Maybe you'll discover a writer you really like and decide to read more of their stuff.
I can't give you "titles of the chapters are the characters' names", but Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy is one often recommended here, and for good reason. It shares an epic, wide-ranging, and (usually) tautly-paced plot advanced through multiple viewpoints and characters painted entirely in grey, along with exposing the harder edges of the world its characters populate.
Thanks. :-)
And here you go:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Blade-Itself-First-Law/dp/159102594X
Trust me, you won't regret it.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. Ned is a good representation of a deontologist (an ethical theory proposed by Immanuel Kant). To anyone looking for a decent over-view of some of the philosophy featured in the series check out this
They're kind of hard to come across because well, they're always included in collections. The Mystery Knight is in a collection called Warriors. I've read all the Novellas since the Hedge Knight was originally published in the first Legends collection. Luckily there is a paperback available for Legends 1 but I think it's out of print. Also to be more confusing, the paperback it's contained in is called Legends 2 because it's the second part of the hardcover or something? But Legends II collection is where you get the Sworn Sword. Well here's a handy list though some might not be in stock (PB = Paperback/HC = Hardcover):
> If the FM have a dragon egg, they may be interested in a book about Dragons
lol, my mind automatically went to
http://www.amazon.com/The-Ice-Dragon-George-Martin/dp/0765355396
Now if I could only find the FM account to message the link to.
But yes, I see what you mean. I remember a reference from somewhere to that book with only one copy in existence.
There are hardcover editions of the first four that look generally the same.
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553103547/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0
They all somewhat look like that, although if you buy them used, you may get a slightly different version. Still looks good even though ADWD looks more like the cover image above.
Yup, those are the pocket formats. Each book being 8€, the costs add up pretty fast... The translations were released by little volumes one by one like these, first in large formats, then in pocket, until new "integral" editions were eventually made (the latter currently have covers based on the series iirc).
The newest pocket edition is actually different as well now, with nicely stylized illustrations.
There is also a GoT board game that's pretty cool, but complex. Also cool, they released an expansion that takes into account where the houses are in books 4 and 5.
(Note, links to Amazon store page/product description might be spoiler-ish).
You might be better off looking into something like this
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-D20-Based-Open-Gaming/dp/1588469425
I know how much fun it can be to convert D&D into different settings, but it is a HUGE amount of work. I spent weeks creating a Ghostbusters P&P RPG in the Shadowrun 4th edition system, and it was just to much work.
edit I just saw the price tag, IGNORE ME!
Do you mean videogames like Telltale Games series or even Crusader Kings mod?
Or do you mean more of a pen and paper or tabletop or card game?
Or any of the above as long as people liked them?
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/1936661748/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
It's a collection of essays that discuss several themes and ideas that emerge in ASOIAF. They are just brain food really. Not totally necessary but they are good if you want to take in several analyses of the work. For instance Romanticism in GoT, or PTSD in soldiers that have witnessed gruesome battles or feminism within Westeros, etc.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Eleven-Masters-Modern-Fantasy/dp/0007154364/
If the third party is selling through Amazon, you'll very likely be ok buying from them.
I was about to buy it, but the customer reviews on amazon made me change my mind. People seem disappointed by a lack of good content. Hopefully this isn't true, let us know if you enjoy it!
The hardcovers still use these: http://www.amazon.ca/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553103547/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1394514464&sr=8-3&keywords=song+of+ice+and+fire
And I think they are pretty cool.
There are several actually. This appears to be the most recent and best liked
Another from 2005
There may be more.
If OP doesn't want to spend so much on the Legends II, there's this. Hardcover looks very nice as well.
The Hedge Knight - $8.97 available for pre order (11/5/13 release date) here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hedge-Knight-Graphic-Novel/dp/1477849106/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1PJXZVRY8JI1V&coliid=I2DAXB6JDPEG7R
The Sworn Sword - $8.97 available for pre order (1/21/14 release date) here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sworn-Sword-Graphic-Novel/dp/1477849297/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1PJXZVRY8JI1V&coliid=I2R1C6W03Q9BAM
More fun stuff to add to the collection!
https://www.amazon.com/Wit-Wisdom-Tyrion-Lannister/dp/0345539125
best coffee table book
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Part 1
> No you didn't
Why do you have this desire for spoonfeeding? Are you a baby?
"With it's active subscribers? Probably not, now with's grand total of subscribers? Of course"
> blah blah ideal, not a minimum threshold.
Ideal = better, something more concrete that will show the opinion of the community with more veracity
the numbers you used = not even close to the minimum threshold , 2k compared to millions? Not even close
> Keep talking at cross purposes, mate.
So you don't disagree? Good, guess that matter is over
> Even if it were right, you haven't established it, which is the bigger issue.
Go to the same site you gave me, witness how many people like the book compared to how few genuinely hate it
Those people I saw talking about ADWD being their favorite were in this exact same sub which is why I remembered it
> Aye, because I'm apparently significantly more honest than you.
As if that's a good thing when you're just admitting you truly behaved like a cunt while calling me one
Hypocrite
> If in the aggregate it's fourth, then it's not consistently second or third, else your usage of 'consistently' is so loose as to lack value.
The numbers you used have no value to actually be called an "aggregrate" because they are small compared to the size of the community, it is as I say ,we would need a bigger sample to say something with more certainty
If anything it only proves ADWD is more well loved than it's hated
> No, they're 9k. Do try to learn what aggregation is. I've said repeatedly it was received worse than the first three, which is demonstrably true.
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Dragons-Song-Ice-Fire/product-reviews/0553801473/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_viewopt_srt?sortBy=recent&pageNumber=1
Please tell me you're not implying all the 9k reviews are negative (because they aren't)
You shouldn't be using the 9k as proof, the 9k is only the number of people that commented there and more than 60% thought it was a four or five star book
> Because a) we were talking about those characters specifically, which you conveniently ignore, and b) 2000 pages ought to be sufficient to advance every storyline.
A) You argued there is no development, I showed there is development just not with these characters you mentioned, their time is clearly for later so idk why you are so bothered by it.
B) So you know Martin's master plan now and how he could cut content to shoehorn what you want?
> Yey you proceed to do the exact same to me in your next point. Well done.
It's funny how the same thing could be argued regarding you, doesn't it?
Anyway, mine was clear from the beginning, yours was pretty straightfoward and I interpreted that way
> See above. Also [citation needed]
See above, also [stop wanting me to spoonfeed you when I already did so multiple times]
> Yes it is. This thread has repeatedly demonstrated you don't have any understanding of the term, so I'll hesitate to seek your advice on it.
This was always my point, pray tell how what I did fits in this:
" Moving the goalposts, similar to "shifting sands" and also known as raising the bar, is an informal fallacy in which evidence presented in response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often greater) evidence is demanded. That is, after an attempt has been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the attempt.The problem with changing the rules of the game is that the meaning of the end result is changed, too"
> Not accepting your undefended claim is not the same as a positive claim to knowledge.
Saying this when I have clearly defended myself with arguments he couldn't counter
Epic
> More words you don't know how to use.
I'm sorry if you don't know the meaning of irony and that I was ironizing you for relying so much on insults like a bothered little child
> Ignoring your insane screed here: yes. Because even if I had done that, that's not anything close to moving the goalposts.
I never said this was moving the goalpost here, aren't you keeping track of this discussion? I said you were butchering my arguments and only that
> Unclear antecedent, please revise. Also, Stannis is a major character and we do see his major movements in ACOK and ASOS chiefly through communications. It can and has been done.
Stannis' is not a POV, he has never been one and never will. He also isn't a major character in the same scale as Dany and Tyrion (unfortunately)
> No. Unlike the autist you've called me, I actually can read between the lines, pal.
You're reading too much into it, that was exactly what I meant
> I didn't call it exaggerated; I called it ill thought-out and irrelevant.
And I already said what you think is irrelevant, it fits the situation
> Sure. I don't, and yes it is.
You can't be serious
>Conveying intent and impressions matters. It quite evidently doesn't to you, though.
My intent was conveyed so no problem there. There is no problem with typos here and there, they're normal
Impressions are irrelevant in the internet because we're just using personas here as evidence by our username, I don't know you, you don't know me, this conversation will have no effect in our personal lives
Weak excuses you just used
The American paperback of ADWD has not been released. GRRM has promised a preview chapter in it when it does come out, but the publisher keeps delaying it because the hardcover is still selling very well.
The cheapest new copy of Legends II on Amazon is over $50.
Edit: Okay, it looks like the mass market paperback is available here at a reasonable price. Not sure why this isn't included on the page linked from the FAQ.
Just so you know, the Dunk and Egg stories are available really cheap online in various anthologies; the latest one I bought at Barnes and Noble.
EDIT: Here are amazon links to the said anthologies
The Hedge Knight
The Sworn Sword
The Mystery Knight
Joe Abercrombie came out with a decent series (First Law Trilogy) that managed to keep my attention for a few months. It was the first fantasy I had read since ASOIAF and it took me a bit to get into them because I'm soo attached to the ASOIAF characters... I got over that and ended up really enjoying these.
Yes, the first two novellas were remade into graphic novels and you can find them under $10 on amazon. The third novella you can find in Warriors, which shouldnt be too hard to find.
I know it's not the same, but The Hedge Knight graphic novel is being re-released next week.
http://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Knight-Graphic-Novel/dp/1477849106/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383068913&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Hedge+Knight
If any of you enjoyed reading this post, you should check out Game of Thrones and Philosophy.
[A Game of Thrones Boardgame] (http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-The-Board-Second-Edition/dp/1589947207/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342542427&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Game+of+Thrones+Board+game) on amazon. published by fantasy flight games. Very cool. Check out r/AGOTboardgame
In my humble opinion, if you're going to undertake a re-read in the original English, you should go with a standard 5-book edition. Many of the translations in other languages split one or more of the books, but no US edition I'm aware of does that. I think there's something to be said for having the arrangement the author intended, and the one he presumably keeps on his own shelf.
I recommend the hardcovers that look like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553103547 . The text size is not huge, but certainly big enough.
thanks for replying so quickly!
so, this here from 2006/2007 is already the censored version? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765316315/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=
The easiest way is to "get" them as an e-book.
They were published as part of anthologies. E.g. The Hedge Knight is part of Legends
>Adam is the creator of The Wertzone, a ten-year-old blog dedicated to all things Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is also a moderator at Westeros.org, is the retired founder of the Game of Thrones Wiki and has worked with HarperCollins on their Song of Ice and Fire website and mobile apps. He is the author of "An Unreliable World", an essay in the "Beyond the Wall" collection, and is currently writing "A History of Epic Fantasy". As well as A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones he writes widely about science fiction and fantasy in print, on TV, in film and in video games.
>Some of you all from /r/asoiaf might know Adam from some of his work on ASOIAF such as:
In case the other answers aren't quite clear: the three Dunk and Egg stories are not available as books: they're novellas that are available only as part of compilations. Scour the sidebar to your right, and you'll be led here.
That entry is slightly incomplete: The Hedge Knight is also available in this compilation of GRRM's works.
Warning: The Warriors and legends anthologies were giant hardback books that at least in some countries, were split up into two volumes each for paperback publication. It looks like Canada wasn't one of those countries, so you don't need to worry about this, but check the description to make sure each book you buy has a GRRM story in it.
Eh, I'll do it for ya: 1, 2, 3.
As for future reprints: there was going to be a new Dunk and Egg story (possibly called She-Wolves of Winterfell) in an anthology that was initially to be published over a year ago; not only is that book delayed, but the Dunk and Egg story ain't going to be in it. The plan was for the first four stories to then be packaged up and reprinted as Tales of Dunk and Egg Part I.
This is presumably still going to happen, but it's years away: as long as it takes to write Dunk'n'Egg IV and publish it in an anthology, then a year for the exclusivity clause in the anthology deal, then we get the book unless it's decided that additional material is needed.
I've been working my way through this.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1118161998/ref=redir_mdp_mobile
It compares different themes and elements of aGoT with the works and teaching of great minds such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and many more. It's not bad at all. The majority of it doesn't spoil anything past the first book/season, but there are a few chapters it warns not to read without having read further into the series.
You should read "Beyond The Wall" by James Lowder. It's a collection of work analyzing the ASOIAF universe, one of the essays covers PTSD in the book series. I highly suggest it to any fan.
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Wall-Exploring-Martins-Thrones/dp/1936661748/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375998654&sr=8-1&keywords=beyond+the+wall
Edit: added a link
These are the ones I bought. They are all paperback not hardcover. Legends is the most expensive since its a bigger book than the rest of them and the other two are mass produced paperback. I don't know if there is a mass produced paperback version of Legends 1 or not.
Legends 1: ~$15
Legends 2: ~$7
Warriors 1: ~$7
Total: ~$30 plus shipping on amazon
You don't want to see the Brazilian version... cringe galore. Half the house's and character's names are comically translated and the other half in the original English versions.
I had to order the A Game of Thrones: The Board Game from amazon to Brazil because the Portuguese version takes the names from the translated books and is both laughable and confusing
Yeah, that "book" was a total rip-off.
If you want just the stories, they were published as part of a collection of short stories by several fantasy writers. They are each just a few bucks on amazon:
Book 1 - The Hedge Knight
Book 2 - The Sworn Sword
Book 3 - The Mystery Knight
It's not bad, I just don't know what possessed him to write it in French, though.
According to Books-a-Million it's August 28: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Dance-Dragons/George-R-Martin/9780553385953
Edit: Amazon has it listed for the same date: www.amazon.com/Dance-Dragons-Song-Fire-Book/dp/055338595X/
not in the US, at least
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Dragons-Song-Fire-Book/dp/055338595X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
amazon lists its release date as October 29, 2013
Amazon lists it as a book for 8-12 year-old children, but maybe we're talking about two different stories here.
This one. http://smile.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Philosophy-Deeper-Swords/dp/1118161998
Just a bunch of lines Tyrion said throughout the series in one book. Read in reviews it takes about 15 minutes to get through. http://www.amazon.com/The-Wit-Wisdom-Tyrion-Lannister/dp/0345539125
It includes all of the Dunk and Egg stories, but there are a couple more about the Targaryens that were published in anthologies. The Rogue Prince is included in Rogues, and The Princess and the Queen is included in Dangerous Women.
They didn't do her Riverlands plotline, in the show. She didn't meet the Silent Brother, she didn't run into Sandor, she didn't run into the Brotherhood.
You gave me an aneurysm. Here's your reward.
The first link is only the first half of AGOT.
The second link is AGOT.
So go with the second one.
It is known http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0765355396?pc_redir=1414407009&robot_redir=1
This question is ask a lot but I'll answer it anyway, the Dunk & Eggs novella are available in 3 different anthologies: The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, and The Mystery Knight
I would say that most of this is more a reference to another piece of GRRM's writing. http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Dragon-George-R-Martin/dp/0765316315
I bought my hardcovers from Amazon and they don't have the HBO tag, not sure if hardcover books are your thing though
They don't print any new stand alone copies of the novellas, but they are available in different compilations. Who knows, maybe you'll be turned onto other authors/series.
The Hedge Knight
The Sworn Sword
The Mystery Knight
I haven't read it myself, but I suggest Beyond The Wall. It isn't a narrative or anything, just critical analysis of themes and characters within the ASOIAF universe. It's on my list of things to read. Though I guess if you come to this subreddit enough, you could get critical analysis for free!
Just in case someone is unaware, the Dance of Dragons is detailed in Rogues
Here's a link to the book since I had no idea what OP was talking about at first.
PSA: Beware of the UK Sworn Sword link. The Legends anthology is split up weirdly. Some people are selling the second part of the Legends 1 anthology, which contains The Hedge Knight, as the Legends 2 anthology, which contains The Sworn Sword. The copy that arrived which I ordered via that link was the former of the two. This link seems to contain the correct book.
I don't ever remember hearing anything from GRRM saying it wasn't set in the same world. As far as I know it IS set in the same world as ASOIAF.
The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated children's book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world.
(http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragon-George-R-R-Martin/dp/0765355396)
"The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated children's book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world."
source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ice-Dragon-George-Martin/dp/0765316315
And also this often-overlooked piece of work, although I find conflicting reports online saying it is/isn't set in Westeros
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Dragons-Song-Fire-Book/product-reviews/0553801473/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0
I'm hard-pressed to find reviews that have kindle complaints.
There are tons of people on GoodRead that were reviewing the books before they even came out, which explains the higher score.
You can find them in the FAQ.
Dunk & Egg:
Histories of Westeros:
[Legends] (http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Stories-Masters-Modern-Fantasy/dp/0765300354/)-Featuring The Hedge Knight-$18.20
[Legends II] (http://www.amazon.com/Legends-II-Novels-Masters-Fantasy/dp/0345456440/)-Featuring The Sworn Sword-$
Warriors-Featuring The Mystery Knight-$11.17
Dangerous Women-Featuring The Princess and the Queen-$21.52
Just so you know, the last one is not a Tale of Dunk and Egg, but a story about the Dance of the Dragons. The next one is The She-Wolves of Winterfell, which has been delayed. Also, Legends II doesn't seem to be available new, so I didn't include a price. Finally, the graphic novels have been announced for a re-release, so the price for those should go down soon, as new copies are printed.
I also just want to say, it's really insane how far Martin has come. A decade ago, no one would have thought that he would be the selling point of those books. Now, his stories are the most popular of the anthologies.
Hell, not nearly as bad as Amazon's description for AFFC:
>THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES
That's just an outright lie.
The stories are in separate Anthologies, search for "Legends Anthology" which contains "The Hedge Knight".. "Legends II" which contains "The Sworn Sword", and finally "Warriors Anthology" which has "The Mystery Knight"
additionally the "Dangerous Women" anthology contains "The Princess and the Queen".. not part of Dunk and Egg, but another novella taking place in the World of Ice and Fire.
I can't think of any reasons you shouldn't be able to get these in the UK.
EDIT: Logged onto the U.K amazon... here are the links to purchase...., The links will show the anthology the novellas are in, they are not available individually.
The Hedge Knight
The Sworn Sword
The Mystery Knight
The Princess and the Queen