Have you watched Game of Thrones before? I haven't.
I haven't either, but I heard it's really popular, I think it's based on a book?
Apparently it is based on "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. Does he have any other books?
I think so, but I'm not positive. I've heard he takes a really long time to write his books.
took Martin six years to write. He is currently writing the sixth novel, "The Winds of Winter".
"A Song of Ice and Fire" takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine in the first novel, to 31 characters by the fifth novel. Three main stories interweave: a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros, the rising threat of the supernatural Others in
television series. In January 2006, David Benioff happened to speak to Martin's literary agent, and the agent sent the first four books of "A Song of Ice and Fire" to David Benioff. Benioff read a few hundred pages of the first book in the series, "A Game of Thrones", called D. B. Weiss and said: "Maybe I'm crazy, but I haven't had this much fun reading anything in about 20 years. So take a look because I think it might make a great