HBO is showing television series called Game of Thrones. This series is based on a series of novel written by George R.R. Martin. The series is called A Song of Ice and Fire and it consist of following books (links are to Amazon.com):
A Game of Thrones (Released 1996)
A Clash of Kings (Released 1999
A Storm of Swords (Released 2000)
A Feast for Crows (Released 2005)
A Dance with Dragons (Released 2011)
The Winds of Winter (Forthcoming)
A Dream of Spring (Forthcoming)
The first season was based on the book A Game of Thrones. The second series will be based on the second book called the A Clash of Kings.
The name of the TV-series comes from the first books name. When I started to watch the series and wanted to buy the books it was little confusing at the beginning to find the correct books. Now you know when you are looking for the books look them by the name of the book or the name of the series of novels (A Song of Ice and Fire). For example Amazon.com sell the books for a competitive price. If you prefer you can get the 5 first books from Amazon.co.uk. If you prefer the kindle edition you can get it from here: link.
I am currently reading book number 4 (A Feast for Crows). I can say these are the best fantasy novel that I have read so far. Some may say that if a movie or TV-series is made from a book it will always be worse than the book. In this case both the book and TV-series are excellent.
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| Daenerys Targaryen |
Watching the TV-series is still interesting after reading the books. Some of the character look different than I expected them to be (in season 2). I watched the season 1 first and got read the book later. For that reason the characters from the TV-series look "correct" in season 1. I read the book before starting to watch season 2. There a new character in season 2 and some of them don't match what I expected them to look like. For example Stannis Baratheon looks different than I visioned in my head.
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| Stannis Baratheon |
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