Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - What Books are you reading?

Btw, the HBO adaptation of 'Game of Thrones' sticks very close to the book.

Well. it did until this last episode. In the book there's no hint of homosexuality in either Renly or the Knight of the Flowers, much less a relationship. I guess HBO needed to appeal to the gay audience (much as they are doing with hetero males via gratuitous boobage). Edit: In the second book there is a hint that there might have been a relationship, but if you weren't looking for it you would have missed it.

The conversation between the king (Robert) and his wife (Cersei) isn't in the book either, but it's (mostly) harmless.

Oh yea, finished book 2, 'A Clash of Kings'. Now to get my hands on book 3.


I sure hope this doesn't turn into a 'Wheel of Time' fiasco, where the author spends 6-7 books building up this enormously complex situation, then disappears.

the wheel of time dude, died, right? I think I quit after 3 or 4 of them back in the mid 90s.

Robert Jordan (a pen name). Wikipedia has it:


The author died in 2007 while working on what was planned to be the final volume in the series, although he had prepared extensive notes so another author could complete the book according to his wishes. Fellow fantasy author and long-time Wheel of Time fan Brandon Sanderson was brought in to complete the final book, but during the writing process it was decided that book would be far too large to be published in one volume, and would instead be published as three volumes as large as, or larger than, any previous book in the series.

Jordan's last published volume was an absolute mess, merely recapping what had gone before. Nearly unanimous one-star reviews on Amazon. That it got published at all is final proof of corporate greed (like we needed more proof).