{"id":1790,"date":"2012-04-26T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2012-04-26T20:58:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:58:47","slug":"book-log-a-game-of-thrones-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-book-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"Book Log: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One<\/em> by R.R. Martin<\/p>\n<p>I need to be more prompt on writing these.  It&#8217;s been several weeks since I finished GoT and I&#8217;m trying to remember what I thought about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good.  It&#8217;s above average fantasy, not that I&#8217;m an expert on fantasy.  What have I read?  Some Piers Anthony a lifetime ago&#8230; the Myth Adventures series&#8230; Spellsinger series&#8230; Thieves World series&#8230; Discworld&#8230; these are all mostly Goofy Fantasy, if that&#8217;s a term.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m not an aficionado.  But GoT is good, it has some interesting characters.  The dwarf, who is not a Dwarf, but actually a human of small stature, kind of made this worth it.  He had a sense of humor, and didn&#8217;t take himself too seriously, which characters in fantasy novels tend to do.  The tomboy princess was also fun.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll keep going with the series.  I&#8217;m not dying to find out what happens, but the journey is enjoyable enough I might check in on it now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One by R.R. Martin I need to be more prompt on writing these. It&#8217;s been several weeks since I finished GoT and I&#8217;m trying to remember what I thought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1790\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}