My journey to "A Game of Thrones"....I love it!!!!

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." 

I've heard about this book somewhere. I even watched a few snatches of its TV adaptation on the HBO channel. I wasn't interested then, but  things  change. I look up online for book reviews. Most of them were favorable, except for a few.

I haven't had the slightest idea what makes me decide to read this book. I put up a request from the library, which would take like months perhaps, before I can get hold of the book. I even thought of buying the wholes set ( which consists the first four books in the series ). As luck would have it, a neighbor was reading it and gladly lend me her copy. She warned that it was kind of slow at first, with all the different characters. But she also added that it is really good. I took her word for it.

I enjoyed reading this one. 

The fine print did not deter me from plowing on, page after page. At one time, I stayed up way past my bedtime to read a few more pages, after I told myself to put it away and sleep. I can be stubborn at times.

I'm not a fan of historical or fantasy books. I usually shy away from them. But often, I'm proven wrong and realized what a loss in my part to not read these kind of books.

"A Game of Thrones" allows me to be in Winterfell vicariously. And I happen to like Tyrion Lannister. I'm curious to know what happen to him in the next one.

"A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. Choosing... it has always hurt. And always will."