Game Of Thrones : Opinions

A Game of Thrones

"Reminiscent of T.H. White's The once and Future King, this novel is an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal." - Chicago Sun Times

"I always expected the best from George R.R. Martin, and he always delivers. A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant." - Robert Jordan

"Martin makes a triumphant return to high fantasy." - Publisher's Weekly

"A vast, rich saga, with splendid characters and an intricate plot flawlessly articulated against a backdrop of real depth and texture." - Kirkus Reviews

"The major fantasy of the decade...compulsively readable." - The Denver Post

"It is perhaps the best of the epic fantasies...readable and realistic." - Marion Zimmer Bradley

"George R.R. Martin is one of our very best science fiction writers, and this is one of his very best books." - Raymond E. Feist

"A Game of Thrones offers the rich tapestry that the very best fantasy demands: iron and steel within the silk, grandeur within wonder, and character torn between deep love and loyalty. Few created worlds are as imaginative and diverse. George R.R. Martin is to be applauded." - Janny Wurts

A Clash of Kings

"Martin amply fulfills the first volume's promise and continues what seems destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written." - The Denver Post

"A truly epic fantasy set in a world bedecked with 8,000 years of history, beset by an imminent winter that will last ten years and bedazzled by swords and spells wielded to devastating effect...here he provides a banquet for fantasy lovers with large appetites." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"So complex, fascinating and well-rendered, readers will almost certainly be hooked by the whole series." - The Oregonian

A Storm of Swords

"A riveting continuation of a series whose brilliance continues to dazzle." - The Patriot-News

George R.R. Martin continues to take epic fantasy to new levels of insight and sophistication, resonant with the turmoils and stres of the world we call our own." - Locus Magazine

"High fantasy doesn't get any better than this." - The Oregonian

A Feast for Crows

"A Feast for Crows is a fast-paced, emotionally complex, well written adventure...Most fantasy authors follow the battle-of-good-and-evil model of their great predecessor, J.R.R. Tolkien. Not Martin. He draws his protagonists from several warring families and show's what's happening through their eyes, swithching with each chapter and telling their stories so compellingly that we root for all of them to win -- even though if any of them does, it will be a disaster for the others." - Newsday

"Once in a while, there are books the writers that manage to elevate an entire genre. Stephan King did it with horror. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has taken fantasy out of the two-dimensional, black and white realm where it once happily existed and dragged it kicking and screaming into a land of believable characters, ambiguous situations, and bloody, sometimes uncertain denouements." - Denver Post

"What really distinguishes Martin, and what marks him as a major force for evolution in fantasy, is his refusal to embrace a vision of the world as a Manichaean struggle between Good and Evil. Tolkien's work has enormous imaginative force, but you have to go elsewhere for moral complexity. Martin's wars are multifaceted and ambiguous, are are the men and women who wage them and the gods who watch them and chortle, and somehow that make them mean even more. A Feast for Crows isn't pretty elves against gnarly orcs. It's men and women slugging it out in the muck, for money and power and lust and love." - Time