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Now that the HBOs Game of Thrones series has ended, it’s finally time to read all of the books. While I wasn’t very happy with the final season, I still think it is the greatest television show ever made. 

If you are completely clueless, the series is baced on the Song of Ice and Fire -book series written by George R.R. Martin, the first one published in 1996. The television series had 8 seasons, but the last books have yet to be written, so the book series doesn’t yet have an ending. Martin hinted at his latest blog post that the final book (not sure if it will be in two parts) should be done by next summer. 

When the series first season aired 8 years ago, I watched it and was hookes from the very first episode. Immediately after I had to google what it was all about, and found out there was a whole book series. I ordered the first two books right on the spot because I was eager to know what happens next. I ended up reading the first one, and then maybe half of the second one, before the next season started on HBO. I quit reading the books because it got too confusing to follow both, being that there would obviously be some differences between the series and the books, the latter always holds more details. I promised myself that once the television series was over, I would read all the books. 

Now it’s done and I’m starting reading the books, right from the start again. I hope to finish all of them before the final book is written, so I can start reading it as soon as it’s out. Let us all pray Martin is alive long enough to write the ending, he is not a young man anymore.