I personally found A Game of Throne a load of crap - is it just me or is fantasy getting less fantastic (as in the case of this book) and just full of sex, violence and gore. . . c'mon, spare me the details. Alot of great fantasy had buckets of blood, (*cough* Conan *cough*) without the overly-descriptive gorefest. Eitherway, I found this amusing off Amazon reviewer, which is an observation I noted in the first 30pgs:
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The Stark family and their locale is taken straight from Nordic legends. The Others are bog-standard undead (Ringwraiths, even), who live beyond Hadrian's wall; all the other noble families, if they are elaborated upon at all, are defined mostly by their heraldic devices. There are magical objects (dragon eggs), specially forged swords handed from father to son, you name it. Most unforgivably, the Targaryens, with their violet eyes, dragon fixation, and pale hair and skin, are Melniboneans lifted without alteration from Michael Moorcock's classic Elric series (they even lived on an isle)
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