I found this novel to be a little disappointing. It seems to come so highly recommended by people who have similar reading tastes and habits to mine. There was very little action for a novel that is said to have inspired Game of Thrones. This first novel seems to be more of a scene setter than anyth...
I found this novel to be a little disappointing. It seems to come so highly recommended by people who have similar reading tastes and habits to mine. There was very little action for a novel that is said to have inspired Game of Thrones. This first novel seems to be more of a scene setter than anyth...
Reseña en español de El Rey de Hierro en mi blog: Click aquíThe Iron King is the first book of a series that George R.R Martin calls "the original Game of Thrones". The book describes the reign of Philip IV of France from the fall of the Templar Order until the day of his death. Philip is accursed b...
Apparently this series partly inspired Game of Thrones, and one can see why Martin is drawn to it, though this first volume seems to resemble Showtime’s Tudors and Borgias series as well. There is pretty of adultery happening, and nice revenge being plotted. The women characters are rather two dimen...
As historical fiction goes, more emphasis is placed on the history here, a compelling enough story on its own without some of the padded writing that can afflict a lot of the genre. Yes, the prose is workmanlike, but Druon is foremost an historian interested in painting the background of France c. 1...
“This is the original Game of Thrones,” or so says the man who would know, George R.R. Martin, and The Iron King certainly has more than its share of murder, adultery, conspiracy, star-crossed lovers and bloody-minded cruelty. The only thing it doesn’t have is dragons (unless you count the ones on h...
bookshelves: film-only, spring-2014, historical-fiction, published-1955 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from April 01 to 26, 2014 Description: With the royal coffers empty, and no formalised system of taxation, King Philippe IV (Tchéky Karyo) asks Jacques de Mola...
This historical novel, set in 1314 France, was written in the mid-1950s, but has been hard to find in English until recently. (I remember hearing about it as an adolescent, but never actually seeing a copy.) George R.R. Martin is a big fan, however, and seems to have persuaded his publisher to put...
This was a fabulous, fast-paced book covering the year 1314. Phillip the Fair of France decides to burn the Grand Master of the Templar Knights, not his first cruel act of so-called justice in the name of the crown but certainly one of his last. There is not a dull moment in this novel between schem...
I picked up this book mainly because of George R.R. Martin's comments about it - how it was one of the books that had inspired him to write A Song of Ice and Fire. The Iron King is not anywhere near as complex as A Game of Thrones, but it is clearly a set up for the rest of the series (which probabl...
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