Books I've Read

Ben4 · 2017-09-08T22:37:23-04:00

Hello all, this is the thread where I am going to be posting about books I have read. If there is anyone reading this, which I highly doubt there is, feel free to post anything. All through high school, I read most of the books that were required in class, though I missed a few here and there. I would occasionally read a book for fun in my free time. Now I am a junior in college. My first two years I didn't read much, but recently I have started doing it more, and would like an outlet with which to keep track of and share my opinions on books. So here I am. I am going to start with every book I've read so far in college. It is a very short list. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin I have never seen the show besides a few episodes here and there. I hope to get around to it someday, but in the meantime, I've been reading the novels. I must say, they are pretty great. Martin does a great job of developing his vast world, but at the same time each and every character. There is no black and white, good and evil, everything is morally complex. This first book does a great job kicking off the story which will only become grander in scale. I would recomend A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin Book two in Martin's epic keeps the story rolling, adding many new characters and continuing to develop the old ones. Not a whole lot to say about this one. If you read the first one, I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't keep going. A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin This one is my favorite of the saga so far. Part of that may be that it is the one I read most recently, so it is freshest in my memory. But what I like about this one is how it starts to shift the story telling toward the Lannisters more than in the previous books. Spoiler alert, for those of you even further behind than me. While the Starks are still the main focus of the story, this book starts to show you what is happening on the other side of the family more. While the Starks are all but in ruin at the end of this book, Caetlyn and Rob dead, The remaining children in hiding, the Lannister family is also destroyed by the conflict, even though they are the victors. In the first two books, Jaimie is one of the characters you hate the most, but in this one, you start to get chapters told from his point of view. He quickly became my favorite character in the series by a wide margin. It was so sad to see him return to King's Landing, having lost his hand, and then losing his family as well. The death of Joffrey drove him and Cersei apart, he and his father have a falling out when he choses the kingsgaurd over his family. And the ending was perhaps the most heartbreaking thing of all. Tyrion was another character who had lost everything. Imprisoned for the murder of Joffrey, everyone hates him even though he saved them in the climax of the last book. When Jaime rescues him, and then he lies and says that he did kill Joffrey, I lost my shit. It was so sad to see the brothers driven apart like that. And then Tyrion kills his own father, in a way becoming the monster that everyone believes him to be, a kinslayer. I cannot wait to see what happens with these characters next. Also Littlefinger was behind killing Joffrey and Jon Arryn? This is gamechanging. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, Nathaniel Fick Well I lied, I can wait a little to see what happens to our friends in Westeros. This book is the memoir of a platoon commander in first recon, an elite unit of Marines that played a big part in the invasion of Iraq. The events in this book were also recorded by Evan Wright in his book Generation Kill, which was made into a miniseries on HBO. I enjoyed the series, which piqued my interest in this book. Fick also describes his experience at OCS and TBS and other training he went through to become a Marine, and his experiences in Afghanistan. This book is a very intelligent meditation on what it is like to be an infantryman in todays wars. I would recommend to people who are into military history and that kind of stuff. Well, those are all the books I've read in the last two years. I will probably update this thread whenever I finish a book. Thanks for reading, if you are out there.

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