WHAT have you finished reading recently? The Iron Dream, a satire of pulp fiction that uses the premise that Adolf Hitler left Germany in 1919 and later became a prominent sword-and-sorcery writer during the golden age of pulp fiction. It’s….all kinds of weird.
WHAT are you currently reading? Dynasty, by Tom Holland, is my fun read; it’s a history of the house of Caesar. Against the Machine when I’m focused and ready for more reflective and serious reading.
WHAT are you reading next? Most likely Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy; it’s waiting at the post office for me now.
Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is “Book Series We Will Never Read and Why“. The easiest answer, of course, is romantic or erotic fiction, whether that’s 50 Shades of Grey or anything in the apparently rapid-growing ocean that is romantic fantasy. I suppose there are also huge series like Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, simply because they’re so enormous. Additionally, if sex and violence mark Game of Thrones the way they’re supposed to, that’s also something I’m not terribly interested in pursuing.
Reading Freely 
Yeah, Game of Thrones is very sex and violence-heavy. I’ve not read them myself but people who I know who have, say the books are even more so than the series.
I figure I got my fill of that on TV through VIKINGS on History!
If you check out my blog you’ll see romance is on my DO NOT READ list.
I had the same reaction to the thought of reading Shades of Grey and Game of Thrones.
Wheel of Time might be interesting if it were a trilogy or something…but I don’t know that I want to commit to that many books.
Even one of its books is a committment!
A Song of Ice and Fire is the series the TV show Game of Thrones was based on. The show in no way covers everything that is in the books, which is the norm when adapting books to screen.
Please do not judge a book by it’s screen version. – I will get off my soapbox now. 😂
Do you think the series is less graphic? I stopped reading Outlander because yep, it had juuuust as much rape as its Netflix adaptation and that’s a no-fly zone for me.
Game of Thrones isn’t my kind of book either, Stephen. Fifty Shades of Gray also made my list. Thanks for sharing.
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I totally agree with you about the series I would never read. I add sci-fi and fantasy, those are not my things, either.
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