Game of thrones help please
 

Can someone tell me the order of the books?

How many is there?

A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Storm of Swords (2000)
A Feast for Crows (2005)
A Dance with Dragons (2011)

wikipedia not good enough for you glenn? :fist:

there's 5 that have been released (2 were split into 2 parts, so technically in the UK there's 7)

A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords (P1)
A Storm of Swords (P2)
A Feast For Crows
A Dance With Dragons (P1)
A Dance With Dragons (P2)

Smithy do you remember what book I am reading.

Brienne and Jamie are walking back to kings landing

wont the show be caught up to the books pretty soon

i read spoilers for season 5 anyway

the 3rd one, although i downloaded 5 books instead of 7 ( 3 & 5 were one book rather than 2 separate ones) so idk if you'll have been on 3A or 3B

I have the actual book but I have up to book 3 part two. Can I just skip part one?

yaaas, that's gonna be so good :flutter:

and yeah the show is gonna be going into territory for some characters that book readers don't know about yet

Yeah probably it's all been on tv anyway

she is the best character did i lie

not that dragon mess you stan

Yeah I started reading them again the other night and I'm just trundling through stuff I already know about. Where does series 4 end in the books?

it's hard to say, like, sansa's and bran's story that we've seen is all that's been written (so thats everything in book 3 and 4) whereas arya/tyrion is the end of book 3 (iirc anyway)

but you need to read book 3 bc there's an amazing twist towards the end

:fan:

But can't I just read book three part 2 for that?

just read the ****ing book glenn

Oh yeah, see it's confusing bc i just downloaded one book :fist:

Just read part 2 of book 3

:joker:

The third book is pretty different to the show

Shut your ***** mouth

I got ASOS P.2 and AFFC for Christmas. Not read them yet, but I'm planning to soon. Looking forward to it. :flutter:

I just downloaded the first book gonna have a read tonight

This tbh

Daenerys is the rightful queen.

First book is literally not worth the time Eoin, it's exactly the same as the show

You reckon yeah?? Should I just skip to #2

This... I mean really :smug:

Yeah, even then 2 is pretty similar you could start at 3, that's where there starts to be some pretty big differences


Also slightly OT has anybody gotten/read The World of Ice and Fire that came out last year?

I'm not reading something I've already watched on TV. What a momentous waste of time that is.

Thanks. Might start from 3 then.

Books >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Movies/TV every time.

I would rather read the books then watch the series

I personally wouldn't advise anyone to skip parts of the book or entire books, there's so much information in them that you would miss out on.

Oh shut up josy. Ain't nobody got time for that

plus you started this convo in the books forum... not the tv chat one

Well I'm talking about the books. Not the tv show?

Glenn clearly struggling to read the books

i started with the first one but I knew what was happening. The same with book 3. Most of what I'm reading I've already seen. It's dull.

The problem you will encounter is that the TV show flows in chronological order, but the books will take one characters story and tell it indepthly, and then go back and tell another characters story. Some books covered characters so far ahead of chronological order that George won't even address their story for another book or two.

So books and series won't match up, and one can not substitute the other

I know. I'm reading them

:clap1:

My work here is done :hehe:

I love the books

One major thing that would be missed out on by skipping the first book is all of Ned's thoughts on what happened to his sister and Rhaegar, which is going to be a pretty huge reveal in the books that haven't been released yet, and things like Robb's relationship, everything about Stannis, and Jon's/Dany's entire season 2 plot are completely different from the second book.