-=> Quoting August Abolins to Joe Mackey on 05-23-19  21:48 <=-

 AA> Any Game of Thrones (GoT) readers or viewers here?  In the last
 AA> episode (without giving out any spoilers) one character refers to
 AA> another as "the keeper of our memories".  This echo is Memories.. this
 AA> is my clever segue into a new topic. 

Clever enough...  <G>  I've not seen any episodes, merely heard about
the series.... I might have read an early volume of the series, a long
time ago, but I'm not sure if I did or not.... I've read a lot of
science fiction/fantasy over the years.... 

 AA> I am totally astonished at the vast number and diversity of characters
 AA> that George R.R. Martin portrays in his epic series.  I would imagine
 AA> that he has a large family/geneology-tree diagram on a wall to help him
 AA> keep track of all relations.

Possibly... or at least a chart that he keeps current... like any family
historian might have to do to keep track of a large (and rapidly
growing) extended family...  

 AA> I started following the GoT tv series, and "cheated" by looking for
 AA> specific story lines in the books to get more details.  There is so
 AA> much more complexity, and great dialog in the books than in the tv
 AA> series. 
 AA> Although the tv series has come to an imagined conclusion by the film
 AA> team, the book series has not.  The author may surely produce an
 AA> alternative (and maybe an even more satisfying) ending.

Books often have a lot more richness than TV shows or movies.... it's
often surprising (and gratifying) when a show or movie actually does a
creditable job of covering an entire book... 

ttyl      neb

... "Are you ready?"  "No, but that's never stopped me before!"

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