Blogpost 17: A Clash of Kings

SPOILERS:
I'm now reading Clash of Kings which is the second book in the series of A Song of Ice and Fire. In this book the Starks are at war with the Lannisters and The Baratheons have split up  and are both want the Iron Throne. Robb Stark is now being named King of the North and wishes to become an Independant country and is demand his sisters back from Kings Landing. My favorite character so far is Arya because she is easily the most sympehtetic character in the  book, her and her sister Sansa who is stuck in Kings Landing being abused by King joffrey. ( Sorry about the length, I had finished  a bigger one earlier but the stupid computer decided not to save or publish it, so after raging for awhile I was able to sit down and write something.) 

Blogpost 16 : A Game of Thrones

   In the book, there are these two houses that are about to go to war, The Starks and the Lannisters. As I was reading  I realized that much bad stuff happens to the good guys (the Starks) versus how cunning the bad guys are. As I read I can't help but think that the Starks have just showed up in the middle of a game of poker to play and don't realize that the Lannisters have bluffed everyone else ( the other houses) into thinking what they want them to think, and the Starks figure it out, but it's too late, the game has already been won. There is a line in the in the TV show Game of Thrones( which is based on the based on the book) said by Cersei Lannister  To Ned Stark, " When you play the game of thrones, you either win or die"

Blogpost 15: A Game of Thrones

I have started reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, starting with the first book. This book is so good it had me hooked the first page in. The prologue starts off with a heavy medieval fantasy feel, what with the strange creatures simply called, The Others. But after the prologue, it doesn't mention The Others again. It leaves this since of mystery that something is coming. After the prologue, you get to see all the political issues and family problems of the House of Stark. There are so many percpectives in this book, so many characters are introduced. There is so much political backstory that explaining each character would be the entire blogpost. But the ones that I am most interest are the Starks. In the Stark family there is Bran, the seven year old kid who enjoys climbing, Arrya, seven or eight, I forgot, she isn't really much of a girl much less a princess. She is very tomboy and since this is a very medieval time period, this is not socially acceptable, there's  Sarca who is eleven, she on the other hand is very girly and isn't much of a Stark, there's Robb who is fourteen and is the heir to his father, there is Lady Catelyn Stark who is the wife of Lord Eddard Stark who is the Lord of Winterfell and all of the North or "Ned" Stark as people close to him call him . Then there is Jon Snow, the bastard child of Ned Stark and is my favorite character of all the Starks because he is the one I feel the most sympathetic to. He is a victim of his own birth and is hated by Lady Stark, the only mother like figure in his life. She even tells him, " I wish you were dead".