A Song of Ice and Fire, 7 Volumes: The box-set collection for the bestselling classic epic fantasy series behind the award-winning HBO and Sky TV show and phenomenon GAME OF…
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THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY’S INTERNATIONAL SMASH HIT GAME OF THRONES
Discover the series behind the global phenomenon and the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age with this seven-book collection.
Return to Westeros.
More than a hundred years after the events of HBO and Sky’s HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, the greatest battle for the Iron Throne began…
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy. Labelled by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, Martin has conjured a world as complex and vibrant as that of J.R.R. Tolkien, populated by a huge cast of fascinating, complex characters, and boasting a history that stretches back twelve thousand years.
Three great storylines weave through the books, charting the civil war for control of the Seven Kingdoms; the defence of the towering Wall of ice in the uttermost north against the unearthly threat of the Others; and across the Narrow Sea the rise to power of Daenerys Targaryen and the last live dragons in the world.
A Song of Ice and Fire is the inspiration for HBO and Sky’s Game of Thrones, the most-watched TV series of all time.
The box-set includes:
A GAME OF THRONES
A CLASH OF KINGS
A STORM OF SWORDS, 1: STEEL AND SNOW
A STORM OF SWORDS, 2: BLOOD AND GOLD
A FEAST FOR CROWS
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, 1: DREAMS AND DUST
A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, 2: AFTER THE FEAST
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Additional information
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers (12 July 2012) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 5264 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0007477155 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0007477159 |
| Dimensions | 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.18 cm |
by neil cudworth
Loving these books
by JPMGORHAM
brought as a christmas present for my son, he is working his way through them, enjoying them
by noise-plate
I came to this having watched the first series of the TV dramatisation having not read any serious Fantasy novels for about 20 years and was not disappointed. However that isnt to say this series of novels isnt badly flawed. I give it 5 stars because it is compulsive reading but then crack cocaine is compulsive, and I suppose that would probably get 5 stars if anyone ever reviewed it. Actually what it reminded me most of was Harry Potter, but only if JK Rowling had come to hate her creation. Like Harry the world that is created is compelling and the detail is fantastic, the characters are fully realised, the writing is only OK and the plots creak at best and at worst are non existent. Here, seven books in, we are mostly worried about what has happened to Theon’s appendage ( and the revelations in the Tv series do nothing to resolve this). The two basic tropes here are the entire book being written from characters point s of view in an episodic way and the authors propensity for bumping off major characters when you least expect it. Which starts out as refreshing but eventually gives a chaotic and disjointed narrative and no real plot trajectory. There are just too many voices and too many ideas, this could be thirty books not nine ( or ten).He says he knows how it is going to end (I wonder if Charles Dickens ever felt compelled to make such a statement!) but he has clearly lost the map of how to get there. Having said all that the journey of reading this is amazing and clearly he is not going to bump off Tyrion ( or probably John Snow unless to spite us all, or Dany) which means that, once done it might become the most important fantasy about a vertically challenged hero since…..well Frodo Baggins.
This does seem to be the case where an authors creation has gone out of control in the era of the internet. Blogs, forums, ideas and pressure while the plot is unrealised and as a consequence opinion feeding into the plot development, either to satisfy his audience or to spite them. An interesting aside is whether he will live to finish it, or whether it will ever be finished!
And finally, the TV series (which is brilliantly realised) follows the main trajectory of plot but characters are amalgamated, plots changed and mutated and information provided that is not in the book but may not be…real..again this means the unfinished novel exists in a post modern world where it is influenced not just by the internet but by television but the reaction to televison and the requiremnts of television.
So an author who may not live to finish his creation which is evolving out of his control because of the internet and the exigencies of television. A metaphor for our times I think. My favourite character? Obviously John Snow.
by Hennie Kloppers
A+ seller! fast, efficient. top quality product
by Dawny
Amazing book set. Good value. I watched the series but the books are far superior. Submerge yourself in this intriguing, brutal, bloody and utterly brilliant story.
by Bee
I’ve borrowed and read them and having rewatched the series, I wanted to read them again. This set was well priced and has all the set. I’ve dropped a star because unfortunately there was cosmetic damage, a scrape on the spine of one of the books, that looks like it happened before shrink wrapping. I’m happy enough, the price was very decent, but if I had spent more, this would have been a bigger issue.
by Thomas
Brilliant book series only wish the last book would come out sooner.
Pages of a good quality and came free of damage.
by Throda tzen
This set covers all the books so far published (summer 2020) and they come supplied in a stout card outer case which is shrink wrapped and includes a basic fold out map. Written in a typical ‘Boys Own’ comic book adventure style with heroes and villains alike’ and plenty of ‘grand action’, it’s an easy read style where Sir becomes Ser, the welsh Meistr is changed to maester (master) creating a pseudo medieval flavour etc. Value for money its far better than buying them separately and is excellent value.
The first 3-4 books (broadly speaking) cover the ‘main’ story of the challenge to the ‘Usurper King’ and the fight for supremacy within the Seven Kingdoms and are easily *****. The remaining four tend to follow the survivors and lead up to the final book(s) to be published (although another 6 books are likely given the writing style).
I think this certainly belongs on any well rounded bookshelf but ultimately it depends on whether you enjoy this type of era being a rough, coarse and uncouth world in a 1066, early crusader vein (good for characters, but lacking real world substance). This is no Renaissance or Tudor style world. There is no blending of cultures’ and no international trade other than Dornish wine and slaves in the east; here east and west never seem to deal with one another and where all the great architecture and achievements were carried out in the past. This is a decaying, stagnant world.
Why ****? Books 4-7 seem repetitive and padded out (lose a *, lots of heraldic descriptions on characters who only appear once etc and lists of meaningless names) and they have a ‘soft porn’ Jackie Collins feel to them (copying the TV style) where characters reveal their other sides turning from bad to good in the 90s and naughties TV serial manner to show them as muti faceted. There’s also a feeling that the author is listening to too many ‘advisers’ and writing the book they want and not following his own gut feeling, which seems to create a lot of dithering and a distinct lack of pace with confused writing styles. A gripping yarn and well rounded; the first three books are good publications but there are numerous minor errors in 4,5 & 6 -i recall.
In comparison I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a long weekend, Vanity fair at 300 pages a day whereas this ran to 60-80 pages a day. But that’ my personal take, although I did enjoy it and never considered it dull.
A word of warning, if you’ve seen the TV series, the books actually only really reach to season 4, from 5 on the TV production was almost all TV assumption on what’s to come in the remaining books.
Will I be buying the next mammoth set, sadly, probably not, unless it offers much more than the last few volumes.