Thursday Book Review: A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's A Game of Thrones
It's always interesting when movie and TV directors interpret books onto the screen. Sometimes, when in the case of Eragon (by Christopher Paolini), the movie is horrible and extremely disappointing. Of course, it is always difficult to reveal character's inner thoughts (unless one uses the annoying voice-over) and some action scenes/special effects are hard to demonstrate. However, many directors are quite successful in their fandom-pleasing interpretation. I am one of those ASOIF (A Song of Ice and Fire) fans that started with the HBO series before reading the books. At this moment I am in the middle of "A Feast for Crows." It is interesting to remember how accurate the TV show is compared with the books. While they cannot get every plot detail in and reveal the motives of the characters, they do a very good job of showing the tension cruelty and heroism within human nature. My only major complaint is of the ages of the c...