Welcome to GoTTalkPod! Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire Book discussion and analysis. We lay out the rationale for a literary critical analysis of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. As widely read as the series is, as deeply plumbed as it is on pods and YouTube channels everywhere, the series still offers profound insights little discussed almost anywhere else. What do you want? Homer, Dante and Joyce? Check check and check! With a heaping helping of Melville and Plato on the side. Always wondered who is the prince that was promised? Whose is the song of ice and fire? Be the first kid on your block to find out. Get in! Get lit! Get GoTTalkPod!
In this line of the pod, we're going to do a read-through of the books, a virtual book club where we tackle the text chapter by chapter looking for the lessons on offer. To paraphrase Dante, we are going to look for the meaning hidden beneath the veil of GRRM's verse.
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