tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post3121011381689065326..comments2023-10-31T00:31:59.277-07:00Comments on The United Federation of Charles: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms reviewCTPhippshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-48306386719778527942015-11-14T04:21:12.143-08:002015-11-14T04:21:12.143-08:00Yeah your right, read the book's mentioned abo...Yeah your right, read the book's mentioned above. Thought they portrayed the Targaryans pretty well and added on what we knew about them already nicely as well. <br /><br />A nice mix of different scales of Targaryan people from the more positive to the negative to some who could be called downright evil. <br /><br />George is great in how he shows many branches of a noble house in contradictions to each other at times, and how in one period they can be fine, the next something else entirely.oliver simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153675796879872038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-6061129220265216552015-11-14T00:45:46.994-08:002015-11-14T00:45:46.994-08:00I personally think you'd like the depiction of...I personally think you'd like the depiction of the Targaryens in both the WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE and A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS since the ambiguity and moral relativism of the setting is front and center. At the risk of spoiling, one of the best stories has in the latter has to deal with Dunk finding himself in a feud between an impoverished honorable old knight and a beautiful ruthless rich widow nobleman. Underscoring their personal feud is the fact the honorable old knight fought for a treasonous uprising against the King which Dunk was lead to believe was composed of purely evil and corrupt individuals (because that's how history wrote them down). The truth, of course, is the first sacrifice in wartime. I also liked the fact George had some of the Targaryens try to get away from brother-sister incest and "only" marry their cousins--which lead to satellite Targaryen Houses being made which had dragons and decided to become the kings themselves.<br /><br />Oops.CTPhippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226189019351004118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876216494183628999.post-70252186597812255692015-11-08T03:19:09.815-08:002015-11-08T03:19:09.815-08:00Personally I say do reviews for the song of ice an...Personally I say do reviews for the song of ice and fire books, it doesn't really matter what you say in it, just how you think of what the book's do well, where you felt it came up short and other stuff. <br /><br />Since at the end of the day it will be just your opinion on it and who knows, you might have something to say on it not many other people do. <br /><br />On the show it's harder due to overall finding it hard not to compare how it does when compared to the books. <br /><br />I liked how George wrote these stories, showing how in detail things were like in a certain time in the past. Though how much of it is due to the Targaryens is debateable since they did have dragons to keep their rule smooth. <br /><br />It can be said it was in spite of Targaryan rule not because of it that things were better in the past. Since they were mostly secretive about their ways of things til Aery's basically went nuts and dropped the subtly to their actions.<br /><br />But this ties very well into how George writes and creates his characters. In that we always hear about many things from very biased and unobjective sources. Not to mention how it ties very well into humanities tenancy to view the past as better than it was or dead people better than they possibly were.<br /><br />You could also say the characters of this book along with others set the standards so high that the next generation just couldn't live up to it due to their own flaws, insecurities etc. <br /><br />Along with some character actions setting some bad precedents accidently as well that got used by many characters In the main series, again another very human thing to do. <br /><br />Overall George did a great job in telling the stories of certain past characters and adding even more to a series that already has so much history to it that few can ever hope to match. <br /><br />One that is embodied with so much detail, personality and filled with very human behaviour, values and beliefs that reflect medieval history in many ways.oliver simpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153675796879872038noreply@blogger.com