I was supposed to go last Monday... but the sky was gloomy and was afraid I'll get caught up in the rain... plus, I thought, because it was a Monday, there would be a lot of people... Tuesday, same story... the sky still gloomy... Wednesday, no CD4, so no... Today is Thursday, a transport strike... not a good idea...
I dreamed last night that I went but for some reason... I forgot, I guess... I didn't get any...
I have to go on the morrow... I need to... I wouldn't have any... I only have to EFAV tablets left...
I have been listening to, not reading, to George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy "A Song of Fire and Ice" and I just finished the 3rd installment: "A Storm of Swords" and starting on the 4th book: "A Feast For Crows"... Audio book, that is... downloaded, illegally, would admit to that, through torrent...
Yes, I read a lot... I love literature... so much that at one point, I even thought I could do literature... write... but, well, some would love to dance ballet but don't have the feet for it... I don't have the hands for it...
Anyway, just to get you up in speed... "A Song of Fire and Ice" was the novel in which the HBO acclaimed series "Games of Thrones" was based on... and it was actually, what made me look it up the internet...
The first book: "The Games of Thrones" introduces us to the Starks, one of the noble houses in the Seven Kingdom of Westeros, and the home Winterfell... Eddard "Ned" Stark was the warden of the North, known in all over Westeros as a very principled and honorable man... his wife Catelyn Stark was the eldest daughter of the house Tally, and sister to Lysa Arryn, wife of Jon Arryn, who was like a father to Ned and the hand of the king, King Robert Baratheon...
Following the death of Jon Arryn, King Robert paid Ned a visit at Winterfell, with his wife Queen Cersie of the powerful House of Lanister, his children including Prince Joffrey, heir to the throne, and his court which includes Jaime Lanister, twin to Cersie and their younger brother, Tyrion who was a dwarf and was known as the imp...
Robert was once to be wed to Ned's sister Lyanna who was kidnapped by Prince Rhaeger Targaryen, King Aery's heir. This and the brutal murder of Ned's father and brother when they were trying get back Lyanna resulted to the rebellion that brought down the Targaryen and hailed Robert the king...
Robert made Ned, being a trusted friend, the new hand of the king, to which the latter reluctantly he accepts and despite Lady Catelyn's defiance as this will take her husband away from her to be at Kinglanding, Seven Kingdom's capital...
At the start of the novel, they found a dead direwolf with five orphaned pups... one for each of Lord Eddard's children to Lady Catelyn: Rob, the eldest and heir to Winterfell... the beautiful Sansa, betrothed to Prince Joffrey, then there's Arya, Bran and Rickon... He has one bastard son, Jon Snow, whom he bought home after the rebellion and treated equal to his other legitimate children... But Jon Snow, though have got well on with his half siblings, particularly Rob and Arya, he have always felt an outsider in Winterfell specially to Lady Catelyn who sees him as a constant reminder of her husband's infidelity... as they were to leave where they have found the five direwolf pups, they saw another pup, an albino, which Jon took for himself...
Bran, the fourth of the Stark children loves to climb and explore... and that he insistently climbs the walls and towers of Winterfell despite of Lady Catelyn's forbidding in fear he would one day he would fall... on the day before he leaves Winterfell with his father to Kingslanding, he thought he should climb the walls and tower for the last time. There he have chanced to pass a tower window and witnessed Queen Cersie and his twin brother Jaime on an incestuous act... Jaime caught him and pushed him out of the window to kill him... Bran survived but was in a coma... an assassin armed with a fine dagger tried to kill Bran on his comatose and Lady Catelyn who was watching over him but Bran's direwolf, which he named Summer when he woke up later, saved them by killing the assassin...
Lady Catelyn now convinced that Bran fall was not an accident and suspects it was the Lanisters sent the assassin and want her son dead, traveled to Kingslanding through ship carrying with her the fine dagger the assassin was armed with... She was met by Petyr "Little Finger" Baelish, a childhood admirer and identified the dagger to be of the Imp's... After, secretly meeting her husband and warning of the impeding danger, Lady Catelyn was to make her way home, back in Winterfell... on her way home, he chanced meet the Imp on the road and have him captive... She bought him to the remote Eyrie, where her sister Lady Lyssa, inheriting it from her late husband Jon Arryn, rules... Lady Lyssa suspects that her husbands death was the doing of the Lanisters and was eager to execute the Imp... but Tyrion demanded a trial by combat to which Bronn, a sellsword, volunteered to be his champion... Bronn won the duel against the champion of the Vale and thus he and Tyrion was free to go...
Lord Eddard was at King's Landing with two of her daughters: Sansa and Arya... he assumed his duties as the hand of the king at the same time tries to investigate the sudden death of Jon Arryn... in his investigation he found out that Prince Joffrey was not King Robert's son and so were his siblings... knowing that if he tells the king, he would murder not only his queen wife and her children, he confront Queen Cersie first to give them a chance to escape... But King Robert was killed in hunt before Lord Eddard was able to tell him...
Renly, the king's youngest brother, offers him to combined their household guard to detained the Queen and her children, and proclaim him as the rightful heir... Lord Eddard refused on the ground that it was Stannis, the second of the Baratheon brothers was the rightful heir... Renly fled King's Landing and Lord Eddard came to Little Finger to have the city guards to arrest and charge the queen... But Little Finger betrayed Lord Eddard and was instead arrested and charged for treason...
Upon learning the arrest of his father, Rob rallied the north to rescue his father and his sisters... Lord Tywin, the patriarch of the house of Lannister, wage war to the Starks and Tully to prevent their advance to King's Landing and retaliation of Tyrion's abduction by Lady Starks...
Rob needed the help of Lord Walder Frey, who holds the twin, a pair of castles on each bank of the Green Fork of the Trident that serves as a vital bridge across the river. They need to cross the river... Lady Catelyn, joining her son and the northmen, went to talk to Lord Walder Frey to solicit his alliance ... she succeeded but with condition that Rob will marry one of Lord Walder's daughter after the war... Rob agreed and through this have seized back River Run from the Lannisters and capturing Jaime.
But Lord Eddard was executed at King's Landing by now King Joffrey despite Sansa's plea and his mother, Queen Cersie's council to just send Lord Eddard to the wall and becomes a Night's Watch...
The northmen decided they want to separate from hold of the realm and proclaimed the Rob the king of the North... Renley with the support of the House Baratheon and House Tyrell, proclaimed King Joffrey's illegitimacy and declares himself as the righful king...
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