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The Art of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

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The artwork in this book is just beautiful! If you are a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, this book is great companion for the series. Much of the artwork is taken from the collectable card game, and are very well done. The book is sectioned by kingdom, with a bit of background written on each area. All of the major characters are represented, as well as places and events, most with a bit of prose from the book as flavor text.
There are a couple of comics added at the end of the book, which are amusing, but the artwork is the key here.
The book is nicely printed and bound well, which I was a little worried about since it was from an independant publisher.

The artwork in this book helps bring the story to life for me, and I am very happy with my purchase.

This is really a lovely little book. It has wonderful pictures that really bring all the charecters to life and the little backround blurbs that George R.R. Martin wrote are very informative and entertaining. The art in this book was very well planned out and really seems to capture more than just the image of the charecters-it seems to get a little of the souls we've all gotten to know so well in the course of the four books to date. And the castels depicted in the book really bring the landscape of Westeros to life in a vivid and colorful way.

With its glossy pages and nice binding this book makes a great addition to any sci-fi fans collection. I only wish it had been a hundred or so pages longer, the pictures are so beatiful I could have looked at them day. The way it is finishing this book takes about half an hour. But it is something I'll pull out and look at again and again. other than that, there's nothing to say about this book. Its pretty and entertaining and a great coffee table type book.

Five Stars

This is really a great book. Beautifully done and bound. The pages are thick and glossy. Unfortunately I don't have much else to say except to echo the earlier review. This book is a MUST for any Song of Ice and Fire fan, and would definitely make a good Holiday gift! Amazon has the cheapest price for it I have yet seen. The characters and places potrayed cover nearly all of GRRM's characters so far. I only wish the book was longer (though in the forward Martin himself said there is a good possibility of a Volume 2; after all, there will be at least 3 more books in the series). I would've liked to have seen more images of places, too, and more than one picture each of my favorite characters Rhaegar Targaryen and Jon Snow. This book is worth well and above the $20 pricetag for any true ASoI&F fan.

Im the first review!!!

This is a brief capsule review for the new 2010 **re-print & revised** edition of Fantasy Flight Games' The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Volume I.
I was disappointed initially to know that the first printing of this book was unavailable (and in some places like marketplace selling for $90 and up). I knew that Fantasy Flights games produced it, but everywhere I looked it was sold out. The few places selling this art book where asking outrageous prices, so I decided to pass on it. Well, I was thrilled to find out recently that FFG decided to re-print this book with a whole brand new cover and additional art included. NOTE: The cover is not the one depicted here, (for some reason Amazon has not updated the picture) but I uploaded the correct one for comparison.

The best news is that a second volume is planned for release Fall of 2011. If you want more information just go to the Fantasy Flight Games webpage.

This is the perfect visual companion for fans of GRRM's 'A Song of Ice & Fire.' I just started reading 'A Clash of Kings' and am enjoying that book right along with this one. What I love about this artbook is that it focuses its illustrations on the characters of the novels, really bringing them to life. The only thing that is missing is a full color map of Westeros, but I am hopeful that Volume II will have a detailed color map.

This is a brief capsule review for the new 2010 re-print edition of Fantasy Flight Games' The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Volume I.
I was disappointed initially to know that the first printing of this book was unavailable (and in some places like marketplace selling for $90 and up). I knew that Fantasy Flights games produced it, but everywhere I looked it was sold out. The few places selling this art book where asking outrageous prices, so I decided to pass on it. Well, I was thrilled to find out recently that FFG decided to re-print this book with a whole brand new cover and additional art included. NOTE: The cover is not the one depicted here, (for some reason Amazon has not updated the picture) but I uploaded the correct one for comparison.

The best news is that a second volume is planned for release Fall of 2011. If you want more information just go to the Fantasy Flight Games webpage.

This is the perfect visual companion for fans of GRRM's 'A Song of Ice & Fire.' I just started reading 'A Clash of Kings' and am enjoying that book right along with this one. What I love about this artbook is that it focuses its illustrations on the characters of the novels, really bringing them to life. The only thing that is missing is a full color map of Westeros, but I am hopeful that Volume II will have a detailed color map.

I'm a big fan of GRRM's series of books, "A Song of Ice and Fire." So when this book became availible I bought it straight away. I found the art within a very mixed bag. A lot of the pictures are very envocative but some are very cartoonish. In truth most of these pictures (if not all) have already been published as part of the card game and the RPG and much of it can be found on the internet at the respective artists' websites. This is definately not a must have, but if you are a big fan of GRRM you might want to give this a look.

While some of the art was breathtaking, there existed enough cartoonish or whimsical renditions to lower the book's appeal. These bothered me. A better companion, I think, is the role playing game book based on Martin's world. There is enough artwork in it to keep my curiosity sated as well as large amounts of data on the world itself and the people it contains. The drawback here, of course, is the price of the RPG book.

Every reader of Martin's epic tale, A Song of Ice and Fire, undoubtedly has in his or her own mind a vivid image of Martin's colorful and diverse cast of characters and locations. Accordingly, it can be a risky undertaking to publish a book of art which visually defines Martin's world as it is certain to upset some fans who imagined things differently. With that in mind, I have to say how elated I was when I looked through the pages of this art book. The characters and locations portrayed are exactly as I had imagined them to be. For me at least, the artwork is eerily spot on. It is obvious that many of the artists are fans of the series and have taken the time and effort to portray the characters as Martin envisioned them. The artwork ranges from pencil sketches to computer assisted landscapes and is as colorful and epic in scale as Martin's novels. The book features dozens of artists, some professional, some merely amateur fans, and many of whom are extremely talented.

That said, I did take issue with a few of the pieces. Simply put, some of the artwork was downright bad. (i.e.: physically impossible positioning of the human body/ horrible sense of depth/ artist's inability to make a wolf look like a wolf, as opposed to a cat) Furthermore, some of the scenes depicted are taken totally out of context from the story and might off put more diehard fans of the series. Many of the art pieces in the book come from the customizable card game offshoot of the series, and in my opinion, there is a great deal of very good artwork that was excluded from the book. Yet these less than stellar pieces are few and far between, and for every atrocious picture there are five which deserve to be framed and hanging on a wall. I can only wonder why such rubbish was published alongside some truly magnificent art, other than as a point of reference to show what true artwork is.

All in all, The Art of A song of Ice and Fire is an absolute essential for any fan of Martin's wonderful series. I cannot stress enough the talent of some of the artist featured in the book. This book deserves five stars without question.

I fast became a big fan of George RR Martin's epic book series, and once i had gotten through the first few books i sought out this compendium of artwork. There are some decent renderings, such as a painting of Robert Baratheon battling Rheagar Targaryen on the Trident, but overall i found much of the art a little amatuerish - not on the level that you might find in one of the many "art of" book for films. Still if you are a Martin fan, you might want to check it out.

The Art of George R.R. Martin is a must have for any fan of the Song of Ice and Fire.
We all know how amazing the characters are from the novels, all multi-layered and fascinating. Now you have the chance to see them fully illustrated by the magnificent artists that did the art for the Fantasy Flight Game cards. There isn't much that can be said to describe an "art" book, but I assure you that the quality of the pictures, and the accompanying text make this a very enjoyable book. Also, by showing the pictures of the characters to friends is a good way to intrigue them into George R.R. Martin's universe - which is good because there cannot be too many Song of Ice and Fire Fans!

Buy this book, and take a colorful look into the people of Westeros.

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