What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025?

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17. Just finished "A Game of Thrones", book 1 by George R.R. Martin. Spoiler alert.

Thanks for the thread, hermetic.

I had never seen the TV series, so this was all new to me. It took me 2 library renewals and 5 weeks to read the 674 pages of small print. Though, I have been busy with spring yard work, etc. I thought it was very well written and imaginative. I think I'll wait awhile before I tackle the next one in the series in favor of something lighter. It seemed that every time I put my bookmark in and set the book down, I'd say to myself, 'well, that was depressing and / or disgusting'. A scene where a 14 y/o girl eats a horse's heart raw without vomiting was especially disgusting. One DUer warned me, "don't get too attached to any one character." Quite a few gruesome deaths. Still... I'll probably give book 2 a try in a few months. Will hit the library tomorrow or Tues for something new.