George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series)

Very amazing set. Dont know what the people that were complaining abt the print size were on because I can read it perfectly fine. Its sleek and the material feels amazing aside from a tiny little dent on the left side due to mismanagement by the mail company it came perfect and the books are beautiful. Amazing series love a song of ice and fire.

I have been watching "Game of Thrones" for a couple of years and I find the HBO added sex repelling but the GOT story compelling. Unfortunately there are so many characters that my husband and I have trouble following all the plot lines. I have over 2000 Kindle books in my archives and most of them were free. As I have said before, you get what you pay for, and most of them weren't worth the effort it took to download them. So I decided to splurge and get this set of books to see if I could figure out what is happening in the Game Of Thrones. I read these books daily, often into the early morning, and it took me three weeks to get through them all. I had read criticism of book four, that readers were unhappy with the introduction of new characters that did not move the story along, so I skipped it and read book five. Then after my mind had rested a few days (and I was going through GOT withdrawal) I went back and read book four and found it to be very good and found it added a lot to the story. I had missed some of the GOT episodes from last year and was catching up on them to get ready for the new season. Now the show makes so much more sense. There were things that the HBO series has to leave out that are emphasized in the books that really add depth to the story. For example, in the book Dany is constantly reminded of the prediction the maige made that she would never have children so the slaves she has freed that call her Mother are her children that she could never have. This makes the story so much more poingnant and helps explain why she is so determined to free all the slaves. I love being able to share these little tidbits with my husband. Sometimes I can even explain the family relationships and why certain groups hate each other! Wow! A wonderful companion book is one that was free on Kindle about a month ago. "Winning the Game of Thrones: The Host of Characters and Their Agendas" by Vallerie Estelle Frankel is very helpful in understanding the Song of Ice and Fire books. She goes into mythology and some history to help explain how Mr. Martin has developed his series. She also explains how he has incorporated bits of his favorite books and homages to his favorite authors into the series. George R. R. Martin has created a masterpiece. I can hardly wait for the rest of the series and will snatch them up the minute they are published. The books are so much better than the TV show and the TV show is pretty darn good. The books would definitely be R rated, have lots of sex, some creepy sex and a little down right perversion, but they are still less shocking than the HBO series. Maybe it because I can't picture some of the stuff like the TV show can actually portray. When I read someone's head is chopped off I don't actually see the blood spatter and squirt. The TV series just skims the top of the story in the books, condenses characters, changes time lines somewhat, and leaves some parts of the books out all together. To get the whole story of the game of thrones you need to read the books.

An amazing book series for an amazing price. I always see them for hundreds of dollars, but the price I got these for was worth it. The quality is great, not too big and not too small. The casing is perfect for travels or when packing up, and the individual books are great for just taking out on a hike to read at stops, or on road trips.

This is a great bang-for-your-buck purchase. New books in a store are around $10 each, and even on here expect to pay around $5-7 each for something used. So this is perfect for what I wanted. Which was EVERYTHING. I just finished the fifth book about a week ago, and I can’t wait to continue with this series. Maybe I came a little late to the party, but at least I showed up, poisoned a bastard king, jousted on a pretty pig, and went on an adventure by ship. I probably couldn’t say anything that hasn’t been said about this series before. It’s dense like a brownie baked with too much butter and eggs. But not the densest out there, I might add. I had my trepidations on starting this series after I was told—by countless people—that it was dense, hard to read, hard to get into, difficult to understand, filled with extraneous details of unimportance, etc. But when I actually read it, I found that to be a gross exaggeration. The series hasn’t been hard for me to read at all. All of the books held and captivated by interest, from book one to book five. So if you can get pas that dense cloud that hands over it, just like a dense and fudgy brownie, you will find it delicious. This series is what renewed my enjoyment of the fantasy novel. I was really big into that genre when I was younger, then sort of got more into contemporary writers who had the subject matter to match. If you can get passed the density of it, but if you’re already an actual reader and not a first timer, this shouldn’t be an issue. It’s richly filtered with people both fascinating and horrible, beautiful and ugly. No one is black and white, and no one is safe from death (sobbing ensues at the thought of Ned). Your favorite character will go through some s***, let me tell you. I will say the degree of rape is weird to me. I can’t help but think there’s got to be some sort of… interest or fascination Martin has with it. You can’t be a woman in this series without being (almost) raped, stupid, or crazy. By the completion of the fifth book, Arya remains the only one that I can think of. HOWEVER. This series is great. Full of everything you could hope for in an epic, and then much more.

A great story, enjoyable reading. Martin tends to be rather verbose in his descriptions, making the journey well over 5000 pages. Easy reading, nice bite size chapters. Martin includes an appendix with all characters and relationships. On the down side, the book began falling apart as I was reading it causing me to have to be careful that I didn't pull pages out of the binding as I was turning the page.

Absolutely stunning, epic, and gripping tale on a scale unlike anything I have read before. I don’t normally read fantasy books, but picked this up on a whim because of the popularity of the tv series (which I have not seen), and ended up devouring all five books in a few months. The kindle edition with books 1 - 5 is a bargain in my opinion, and I highly recommend it to everyone, regardless of whether or not you are interested in fantasy.

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Vraiment incroyable j’adore ces livres je vous conseille sincèrement de les prendre au vu du prix. Pour les plus pointilleux les pages sont un peu fines et l’encre a parfois imprimé la page contre laquelle elle était mais ce sont des détails les couvertures sont sublimes, l’écriture est parfaite et j’ai enfin pu avoir les 5 livres BEAUX ET ABORDABLES .

Muy buenos libros, diseño lindo. La letra si esta un poco pequeña pero es edición bolsillo. Esta bien.

Beautiful books and well packaged 🥰