Why you should STILL read Game of Thrones/ASOIAF | Video Essay 

After watching the show reading the books is pretty fun, I get all the juicy details I’ve been learning through RU-vid videos

It wasn't that they ran out of books; it was that they left out SO much! They had enough material to make several more seasons…

Hey, great video but I want to say they didn't ran out of book material. They willfully abandoned many big & important plotlines from book 4-5 while fitting the rest of these book poorly in just one season.

I’ve never left a comment on a video before, but to be completely honest this video video was extremely high-quality. I subscribed within the first minutes and a half of it, please keep up the good work🎉

Phenomenal video mate! Absolutely great vocal production too, sick of that AI trash.

Amazing video! As for me: I've read the books once and loved it, it was amazing (I'm thinking on rereading them)... I'm quite optimistic about George actually finishing the series. I've been reading his blog for years and I do believe this time Winds is being nearly finished. And the more he spends on perfecting the novel the better the result is going to be once it's done. Yes, 13 years... but try to write such a book yourself! 13 years - it should be around 10 pages per month, equals around 1500 pages, which is quite a lot actually. I've read many B. Sanderson and S. King's books, those very prolific authors, but no-one comes close to the quality of prose that Martin writes, at least in my opinion. And after Winds is finished... even if he's 80 when starting the 7th novel, a lot of writers live 90+ years and I believe he can finish it. Perhaps the last book would be a bit easier to write than the Winds. But who knows. I also admire him as a person, I don't know him, but from reading his blog and seeing him on interviews. I think it's much better to appreciate what he has so far written than to focus on what he hasn't managed to write (yet). And there are always naysayers, it's always easier to give up and say it's impossible. It's for us - in our lives and our dealings - to prove them wrong:) Better ask: What if he does finish the series! ;) Remember this quote: "Those Who Say They Can and Those Who Say They Can't Are Both Usually Right."

500 views how RU-vid algorithm is shit at this point great video bro

Amazing channel, looking forward to it blowing up soon

Who has stopped? Many of us are perpetually trapped in the asoiaf reread 😂

I've read the first book few years back, (2019 I think) really enjoyed it, and said to myself I'm going to binge read them all when series is finished. Still waiting

There are a lot of characters and a lot of plot lines with theories we can root for. This is masterpiece. Are there any book like this. I have only read First Law but still not better than GOt

I have been connecting the dots, and my mind is blown. Several if not all of the PoV characters are being warged into unbeknownst to them. Maester Luwin when he gets the wooden box. Ned when he strangled Lyanna. Jamie when he killed the mad king. Also, kings and hands probably meant something way different originally. The king is the one who wargs into people from a distance, and the Hand is his boots on the ground, kinda like Bran and Hodor. The pearl emperor was a warg king, pearl as in white eyes like when some men warg. People warg at night. Wargs are also described as dreamers. Dreams happen at night. The night king was/is a warg king. Old nan gives us clues about his identity. Old nan says, mayhaps he was a Stark, mayhaps his name was brandon. Mayhaps means you lied about something you said. The mayhaps is the word "was". The night king IS Brandon Stark. Not little Bran but Neds brother. Neds dad was burned brandon was not. Ned mentions the stonemason knew his dad well. He doesn't mention anything about the construction of the other statues. Brandon was supposed to be the hand for rickard in his life as a night king, but he has taken it for himself. I could go and on and on, but I will stop after this last revelation. Several of neds kids are the result of Brandon using Ned to commit abominations 😢. Also, some.. thing is warging into the targs and making the lizard babies.. and Tyrion (black eyes are from some non human warg, maybe a giant or one of the lizard people mentioned in twoiaf). I suspect mad king Aerys was even triggering this black eyed warging possesion to happen via blood/fire sacrifices.

After watchinh season 1, I planned on reading after the book series was completed, now its over a decade later 😂

Calling Sansa's chapters slow and Jons interesting is a wild take

I say if u read the first 4 and not the firth u will be sastified and in a good mood. But if u read the 5th book then your gonna be pissed cause nothing really happens in that book no characters get any conclusion literally every characters story is left on a cliff hanger where its almost impossible to guess what happens next. Its a book with nothing but setups and has zero climax in my opinion the 5 and 6 books must be read together to be satisfying since the 5th book contains nothing but setups and the 6th has alot of climax. To put it into perspective each book normally contains 1 or 2 battles or big moments. The 5th book has zero and the 6th book should have atleast 5

I don’t get why people can’t enjoy the series because it isn’t finished. To me, it’s a joy to read a great story. Of course I wish he’d finish them but, for whatever reason, he can’t. It’s his life and maybe he just doesn’t know how to finish it. It doesn’t take away from how amazing it is to experience the story that is there.

I would... if there are going to be any more. I hope so, but...

Dude your videos are great keep going you should do the game of thrones video game from 2012 for footage if you make a new asoiaf video

Just read the first 3. The 4th has some good stuff, but goes way too off course and never recovers in the 5th.

hey , george may have soft launched the book less than a year ago he told his publishers to be ready and he is going to a con this summer and the post blog maybe we are getting the winds

Just in case we have a finale!

ASOIAF is worth reading even if it is unfinished is as good as that

What game is that?

Winds of winter release date revealed!! December 25 2038

4:20 no. Stop it. Dont you give me hope.

We don't need an ending? Please. If we don't get one, then the contract has been broken. The one inherently between storyteller and listener/reader etc. I would be equally as annoyed if I never got the ending to Hamlet - regardless of the writing. No ending - no catharsis. It is ultimately hollow. I love Grrm's universe. There are, however other universes just as fascinating out there. With, might I add, finished stories.

Because yesterday Martin sneezed, meaning he has a cold… wait a minute, cold? People get cold in winter… OMG!!! It’s a sign!! Winds of winter is around the corner!!! 2024 is the year boys!! winter is coming!!!!

It's impossible to give it a fulfilling ending, George can't do it either

READ DA BOOKS

I'll read it when it's finished.

I want to read the books but after going through the first two, it's not something I want to invest more of my time in if it's not looking likely that Martin will ever finish the books. I don't want to hype myself for something thats probably never going to be released.

The final 2 seasons were bad? Man the final 4 seasons were unwatchable.

yes, read it so you can the bandwagon of agony that comes with unfinished work...

Haven’t watched yet but I disagree with the tittle, you should NOT still read this if you haven’t already I wish I could take it back. I read the books in 2020 thinking the next book couldn’t be too far out especially since the author had a pandemic to keep him working….its been 4 years not even a release date yet. I heavily regret reading the books now

Why does the narrative that they ran out of books still exist. Let's actually plot out the seasons. Season 1 was a compacted version of book 1. Season 2 is a compacted version of book 2 with some additional scene added n that actually cut out more book material. Season 3 and 4 were a compacted version of book 3. Notice how book 3 took up 2 seaeons. That is not what will happen next. Season 5 are bare scraps of books 4 and 5. The books were taken chopped up and they n condensed into one of the worst drop offs in quality from one season to the next in television history. They wasted at least 4 seasons of material in 1 extremely terrible season that revealed the naked Emperor for all to see.

series is dead, wouldnt waste time on the books anymore. i think even george has given up on the series.