June 14, 2012

A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings)


"A Song of Ice and Fire" is a saga in which the action takes place in the author's imagination created the world. As in many other works of fantasy, this world has lots of parallels and similarities with the world in which we live. Most of the players are the people, but adjacent to Others. This is a sinister creature from the distant north, and the dragons of the East, although both participate in the others were considered extinct.
Saga’s act is distinguished into three main plot lines: the Wester continent covering a few noble families of the war for the throne, the growing of other observed for the vast northern boundaries protect the ice wall, and the threat of attack Daenerys Targaryen, fifteen years ago, the deposed king's exiled daughter, and their efforts to return recovery management. Gradually, all these lines are connected and dependent on each other.
The beginning of the main action takes place on the continent Wester, also called the seven kingdoms, where the powerful noble families are fighting for influence and the Iron Throne in every possible and impossible means. Each of them have arguments why they should be managed by the Seven Kingdoms, and they are all right. Each chapter of the book invited the reader to look at the world through the eyes of another character, reflections of his experience, the world's imagination and things, to understand his motivation. After reading the first chapters of the book is easy to sympathize start good ones and hate the bad ones, but then things can turn over upside down, looking at the heart of the action on their part.
Original, unconventional narrative approach reveals the great characters of the book, makes the identification with the characters and stay seven kingdoms. Book’s heart and pulse rate is the social life of heroes. It speeches and agreements, not wars and battles, often are determined who would live and who shall die, who will be managed and who will be exiled to the edge of the world.
In "A Song of Ice and Fire" books many characters of heroes are gray and dirty. This saga is like a dirty and cruel reflection of our world. The writer draws his characters flawed, both human and cruel.  Books are full of scams, hypocrisy , cruelty, violence, coarse language. Literary language is broad and rich. Just to name the horse in different places of the book writer use about a dozen different words.
"Ice and Fire song" saga different from other fantasy books - at least the existence of magic. Most book characters have the same magic incomprehensible and untouchable myth just like us. Comes only a legend that dragons once existed, and the north stands a huge wall, behind which the inexplicable things happening in the mind. Direct collision with a little magic to occur.
While reading A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings) we enter into the great and incomprehensible world, with a population of defective and simple, but also powerful and charming people.