The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin immediately comes to mind... Humanity come into contact with an alien race accidentally through radio communication. The alien race immediately decides to erradicate humanity and colonize the earth, because their own world is inhospitable in comparison to ours. Ho...

I'm most curious about Bran, Arya, Rickon and Jon Arya seems to be taking an express course on "facelessness" and I wonder how that'll affect her character, and her relationship with the rest of her family... Who will Arya be later on? Will we ever get to see? Will she get her revenge? And...

scrumfish, your spoiler is interesting. I have read all five published books, and I must admit this idea never occurred to me. It does have merit, though. woooooh boy... Do we even want to talk about that? There's one particular chapter in this book (Eddard X) that's going to blow the whole thing o...

I guess I'm a bit late to this party xD. I've sort of shot ahead unintentionally and I haven't had much time to sit down and write about stuff. But I have been reading, rather intensely. One thing I want to talk about, that you guys have already been discussing is the children (think of the children...

Actually, this chapter has one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in the book. The part where Jon asks Tyrion why he reads so much, and he responds "Well, my legs may be too small for my body, but my head is too large, although I prefer to think it is just large enough for my mind. I have a real...

yoink.... After reading a couple of the blog entries, I realize it's a really bad idea to share the blog here... Most of these articles contain huge spoilers, and the author links to a speculation site that has some very strong theories concerning some of the most impressive plot twists in the serie...

I'm not so sure the word to describe Ned here is 'weak'... He doesn't seem weak to me. In fact, as lord of Winterfell he seems capable enough, so far. He doesn't squirm at the prospect of executing his own judgement, his people respect him, his sons are each individual and unique, not afraid of him,...

Crystalline, I think you'll find GRRM is more a "the truth is gritty, ugly and dangerous" sort of writer. As such, romantic love doesn't come into the story often. ...Actually, thinking about it, romantic love seems to have a very specific interpretation in the story... But I think it's be...

Very true, Crystalline. Since this is supposed to be a literature discussion, I guess we better give it a go. If I had to describe GRRM's style, I would say that it flows easily through evocative descriptions and high sounding interior monologue and dialogue. I think he does a good job of balancing ...

I don,t have any envy towards any thing associated with the word " Medieval". I mean drawing and quartering has little appeal to me. I simply could not imagine having to live in a time like that. Heh, let's not even get started on basic sanitation. Or anti-biotics. No aids though, that's ...