# Please spoil A Game Of Thrones for me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287 "2009-01-21T11:38:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/1 "2009-01-21T11:38:20Z")
I just bought [A Clash Of Kings](http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Kings-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553579908/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b), the second book in the series. But it’s been many years since I’ve read the first book & I remember almost nothing about it (I read way too many books and have a horrible memory :rolleyes:). So could someone please give me a cliff notes version of the first book so I’ll be up to speed and can start the next one? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/2 "2009-01-21T12:38:29Z")
Wikipedia has a reasonable synopsis. > **[A Game of Thrones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones)** > > A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011, the novel became a New York Times Bestseller In the nove... ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/3 "2009-01-21T12:54:52Z")
Direwolves! Jamie pushes Bran! Tyrion the Dwarf! Ned’s dead! Hodor! Jon Snow! ---
**Author:** ![luvtinayothers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@luvtinayothers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luvtinayothers)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/4 "2009-01-21T13:21:31Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Wikipedia has a reasonable synopsis. > > [A Game of Thrones - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones) Ok…that’s ummm…pretty much exactly what I was looking for - thanks! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/5 "2009-01-21T13:21:31Z")
The King in the North! The King in the North! _THE KING IN THE NORTH!_ ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/6 "2009-01-21T14:13:17Z")
Go read the part where Syrio Forel fights the guards that come to capture Sansa at least. That was so badass. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/7 "2009-01-21T14:22:43Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Go read the part where Syrio Forel fights the guards that come to capture Sansa at least. That was so badass. I’m finding that each of the books so far tends to have one or two ‘badass’ moments, and I tend to feel like I’m sorta plowing through to get to them. Don’t get me wrong; I love some of the character studies. The growth of Anya, Jamie, and the Hound seem particularly cool. It just takes a lot of fortitude (and sometimes just downright ignoring bits) to choke down the ‘who rules where and is related to whom’ chapters. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/8 "2009-01-21T16:11:38Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Go read the part where Syrio Forel fights the guards that come to capture Sansa at least. That was so badass. That would be Arya that they’re coming to capture, not Sansa. (Says the smartass who’s currently rereading the series.) ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/9 "2009-01-21T17:44:13Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > That would be Arya that they’re coming to capture, not Sansa. (Says the smartass who’s currently rereading the series.) Yes, you’re correct. How do I get Syrio Forel correct, but not which daughter it is? Also read the part where Arya and Sansa are arguing over breakfast and Arya throws fruit at Sansa. I need to reread this series, if only he’d finish the next one I’d have a reason. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/10 "2009-01-21T17:50:25Z")
Eddard Stark gets beheaded in the final chapter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Superhero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Superhero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Superhero)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/11 "2009-01-21T21:16:52Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Go read the part where Syrio Forel fights the guards that come to capture Sansa at least. That was so badass. Yep, I’d say that’s just about the textbook definition of the [Crowning Moment of Awesome](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome). Though it’s probably topped as a CMoA in _A Storm of Swords_ when… Jaime goes back to rescue Brienne from Harrenhal and leaps unarmed (literally) into the bear pit. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/12 "2009-01-24T17:07:49Z")
Mkay, just finished Feast for Crows. Having a speculation moment. Will include spoiler box. Deals with Brienne’s adventures in that book. In the last chapter of Brienne’s involvement, she’s being hanged, and it says she yells out one word. Any speculation as to what the one word she’d yell out to the Stone Queen would be? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/13 "2009-01-24T17:49:00Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > Mkay, just finished Feast for Crows. Having a speculation moment. Will include spoiler box. Deals with Brienne’s adventures in that book. > > In the last chapter of Brienne’s involvement, she’s being hanged, and it says she yells out one word. Any speculation as to what the one word she’d yell out to the Stone Queen would be? I’m guessing “Sansa!” ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/14 "2009-01-24T18:37:34Z")
Freeeeedoooom!!! ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/15 "2009-01-24T19:42:56Z")
“Jaime!” would be a likely candidate? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/16 "2009-01-24T21:05:14Z")
I could maybe see it being ‘Sasna’… But the Stone Queen already decided she didn’t believe her oaths… If it was more than one word, I could see it being “Anya is alive!” (Seeing as she has reason to believe that now) but they did specify -one- word. “Jamie” would’ve been interresting if they plan on it being her dying word, but I’d really like to see Brienne’s story continue… (And speaking of Jamie, his last moment in Feast had me literally going, “YES!” For those that have forgotten…) Cersi is -finally- getting a come-uppance, being held by the church for her crimes. She sends a desparate letter to Jamie to come champion her, and after its read to him, he says, “Throw it into the fire.” Crowning moment of awsome, right there. Of course, back to Brienne, one wonders if her last word was something to save herself, something to save her companions, or, quite simply, ‘last words’. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/17 "2009-01-25T05:44:18Z")
Oh good lord, just thinking… If her last word is ‘Saphires’, I’m gonna have to waylay a certain author in a back alley. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/18 "2009-01-25T05:47:08Z")
> [@ArrMatey](#): > > Oh good lord, just thinking… If her last word is ‘Saphires’, I’m gonna have to waylay a certain author in a back alley. It’s been a while since I read them…I don’t get this? ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/19 "2009-01-25T10:22:57Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s been a while since I read them…I don’t get this? She comes from the Shaphire Isles, and Jamie had told their captors that her father is rich in Shaphires (how the Isles got their name). He suggested ransoming her instead of rape and killing her. Saved her life. I am also reading the series again, and am just starting book 2. Was at B&N the other day, and looked up book five. They have a release date of 2013. The employee said that the date is so far away because a release date hasn’t been set, but I am thinking it is probably pretty close to the truth. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287/20 "2009-01-25T13:13:23Z")
It helps with the explanation if “sapphire” is spelled correctly. And, I never considered that she would say something just to save her skin, but it fits with how most people act in martin’s world. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-spoil-a-game-of-thrones-for-me/482287.md?page=2)