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Game of Thrones is based on a series of books-A Song of Ice and Fire-written by George R R Martin

It is generally assumed that one should be happy when others share one’s interests. I too, in simpler and happier times, would have agreed with that supposition. But I no longer do, and the reason is simple: The vast popularity of the HBO television series Game of Thrones. 

This enormously successful show, now in its seventh season, is based on a series of books – A Song of Ice and Fire – written by the New Mexico-based writer, George R R Martin. I first picked one up, purely by chance, in a second-hand bookshop when this millennium was new; I happened