Game of Thrones on HBO - Getting Excited? (Page 5)

Just finished Book 4 and started 5.  OK,,,, noooooow I get it.  But as Adam Sandler once opined, "that was information I could have used yesterday!!!!!" 

Just finished Feast of Crows, now I'm getting on my Palfrey to seek out the next book.  

Season two of HBOs Game of Thrones  has a lot of new faces.  

http://tvovermind.zap2it.com/cable/hbo/game-of-thrones/game-thrones-meet-faces-season-2/86984

I just watched the first two episodes of season 1. My first impression was how perfectly the producers picked the cast of children. Arya, Joffrey, and Brandon are EXACTLY how I imagined them.

I have yet to read books 2-5 (just started Game of Thrones before school, not a whole lot of time)

"Valar Morghulis."

It looks like in season two we will see Robb Starks new wife Jeyne Westerling?

I found the Hedge Knight at my local library.  Kinda in the format of a glossy illustrated comic book..  Was very good.   

Trying to find the other two that Martin has done.  The Sworn Sword and  The Mystery Knight.  (All are part of the Dunk and Egg story line)- And if I understand... this all happens about 100 years before Fire and Ice?????

They tell you in the next book.

Just finished watching Season One in one fell swoop (read all the books that way too) and I must say ... I have the biggest crush on Petyr Baelish.

He was my favorite bad guy in the books, too.

Really? I kept reading waiting for him to die badly. In the end I came to like Jaime and the hound.

Well ... Jaime and the Hound wound up exercising some redeeming qualities.

At my worst, I am exactly what Petyr Baelish is like. I kind of admire that he's willing to utterly and unapologetically be that way and take it all the way. He's probably also the most brilliant of the characters in terms of strategy and manipulation. Very sophisticated. Nobody in the books consistently, and throughout the books, makes out as well as he does. He gets everything he wants along the way, and he does it by cunning.

I also think Aidan Gillen is ridiculously hot and perfectly suited to play Baelish. Sssssmokin'.

So, finished a dance with dragons on vacation.   It was definitely better than book 4, and I guess I now have a long wait for 6.  I found 5 to end a little anticlimactically, and there are way too many storylines at the expense of others.  Feels like there are characters I haven't read about since book 4....  Every time I came to a new chapter I'd have to stop and try to remember where this arc left off.  I thought 5 would tie things together a little better.

Looking forward to season 2, as I think book two was my favorite, followed by three (or maybe the other way around, frankly they all blend together)

I felt the same way but book 3 was my stand out fav. I went and read some blogs about the books and I guess Martin said something about it might take more than two books to finish up the story. I'm just hoping that now with the TV series and the fan base he will be able to knock the books out rather than waiting 6 years again.

Yeah ... I felt like with books 4 and 5, honestly, that all the "new" (or now-highlighted previously side) characters were being introduced in kind of a mad-libs style ... I kinda kept thinking, wait, I've read this before, and I pretty much had. The one exception is Reek.

Yeah, that story line is intriguing.  Also Young Griff which had (has I hope) a lot more promise than delivered.  

I just remember there were probably two times in each of books 2 and 3 that I had to literraly put the kindle down and say "wow, did that just happen?????"   Nothing like that since.