書名：A game of thrones:book one of a song of ice and fire　中譯：冰與火之歌

推薦老師：陳秀華老師

         A Song of Ice and Fire is an epic series of romance novels about kings, knights, mythic adventures, and brutal wars.  It is a collection of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards. Amid plots and counterplots, victory and betrayal, kings rise and fall.  George R.R. Martin, the mastermind of the epic, skillfully maneuvers the developments of the plots. Characters from House Stark, House Lannister, and other houses take turns recounting the related events in their personal perspectives, weaving an intriguing tale of mystery and suspense.  Book One A Game of Thrones delights fantasy fans with a land where winters last a lifetime. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Starks’ Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall, where the Night Watch, the sworn brothers, are stationed to protect the realm. In Book Two A Clash of Kings, a comet the color of blood and flame heralds the chaotic struggle for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms.  Readers are transported to a world of revenge, wizardry and warfare. The most promising King Renly Baratheon is mystically murdered by a “shadow,” something dark and evil supposedly cast by his own brother King Stannis, who defects from the old gods and yields to the Lord of Light instead.  Book Three A Storms of Swords sentences to death two more of the five contenders for power. Weddings turn into slaughter houses. King Robb Stark was murdered at his uncle’s and Jeffrey Lannister was poisoned at his own. On the other hand, the exiled queen, Daenerys, Mother of Dragons rose to power by liberating slaves and conquering slavers’ cities. Meanwhile, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilizations, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. In Book Four A Feast for Crows, the powers dividing the land come to a temporary truce after centuries of bitter strife. New alliances are formed while surprising faces emerge from an ominous twilight to take up the challenges ahead. At a feast for crows, many are the guests, but only a few are survivors. As the name of Book Five A Dance with Dragons suggests, Daenerys rules with her three dragons as Queen of a city built on conflict and death. In a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics lead a grand cast of outlaws and sorcerers, nobles and slaves, to the greatest dance of all.