Book · 1997 · Fiction
A Game of Thrones
#148 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- people
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- podcasts
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- episodes
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- recommendation
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What they say about it
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The best things said about it
When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him wrong.
Like if you open George RR Martin's Game of Thrones and you see Times New Roman, you're going to be like, What is this? like the best versions of those books look like it was written by an elf, you know, like Bilbo Baggin, something a little medieval and fanciful.
I read all the books like I'm like plowing through them I I did not know going in that they did not end.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Aug 2022 Are we ever going to get that last book, do you think? No. Absolutely not. What a disappointment.
I loved the show because it was an explanation of what humans will do man or woman what they will do for power and there's nothing they won't.
Jason Whitlock The Megyn Kelly Show · Mar 2022 I had a chance to sit down with him and just pick his brain about stuff.
Kobe Bryant The Jordan Harbinger Show · Sep 2019 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin is the first installment in a landmark epic fantasy series centered on dynastic struggles, intricate political intrigue, and power dynamics in a fictional medieval realm. Joe Rogan expressed his admiration for the television adaptation on The Joe Rogan Experience, calling it one of the best shows he had ever watched. Doug Brunt mentioned the books on The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss how traditional book typesetting and medieval formatting complement fanciful literary themes. Konstantin Kisin referenced a scene from the narrative on Modern Wisdom to make a point about unity as a core strength, and Tim Pool utilized a quote from the author on Timcast IRL to discuss censorship. Robert Evans discussed the fantasy series on Behind the Bastards while examining how the books popularized exaggerated ideas about the historical size of direwolves. Emily Jashinsky brought up a notable dialogue exchange from the franchise on Breaking Points to illustrate stark contrasts between knowledge and raw power, and Charlie Houpert cited the narrative examples on The Diary Of A CEO as case studies in charisma and strategy.
Every mention
Joe Rogan I've been really getting into gamer Game of Thrones yeah it's amazing it's the best show I've ever watched 1
Recommended
“I've been really getting into gamer Game of Thrones yeah it's amazing it's the best show I've ever watched”
Robert Evans something they largely acrewed via Game of Thrones because direwolves were around the same size as the larg… 3
Discussed
“something they largely acrewed via Game of Thrones because direwolves were around the same size as the largest modern wolves.”
Discussed
“Like that's stuff that George R. Martin put in his book because George R. Martin knows how to make a book cool, right?”
Critiqued
“I'm just going to read Game of Thrones to you [ __ ] Are we ever going to get that last book, do you think? No. Absolutely not. What a disappointment.”
Jason Whitlock did you probably watch the or saw a little bit of like Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones is just this sto… 2
Discussed
“did you probably watch the or saw a little bit of like Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones is just this story when it was good the first four or five seasons about what human beings will do for power in anything”
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“that was the tv show game of thrones i don't know if you ever watched it but you know a lot of the fake kind of sorcery stuff i wasn't into but i loved the show because it was an explanation of what humans will do man or woman what they will do for power and there's nothing they won't”
Kobe Bryant and then same thing with Game of Thrones you know god those are right though and then you read Game of Thrones 2
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“and then same thing with Game of Thrones you know god those are right though and then you read Game of Thrones”
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“and then you read Game of Thrones I have and then like sitting down with George I had a chance to sit down with him and just pick his brain about stuff”
Andrew Doyle I did a review of Game of Thrones by series by series where they judged each episode as good or bad on the… 1
Critiqued
“I did a review of Game of Thrones by series by series where they judged each episode as good or bad on the percentage points of how much female characters speak”
Bari Weiss he's compared you to Littlefinger in the Game of Thrones most devastatingly said I don't trust him 1
Discussed
“he's compared you to Littlefinger in the Game of Thrones most devastatingly said I don't trust him”
Charlie Houpert some of them are in politics some of them are on talk shows and some of them are scripted TV shows where I'… 1
Discussed
“some of them are in politics some of them are on talk shows and some of them are scripted TV shows where I'm just saying hey this is obviously a script but it would work in real life if you did it like Jon Snow did in Game of Thrones or something”
Chris Williamson My name's Chris. On the face of it I'm a club promoter. I do all this stuff, but actually deep down I'm a b… 1
Discussed
“My name's Chris. On the face of it I'm a club promoter. I do all this stuff, but actually deep down I'm a bit of a nerd and I like to read Game of Thrones with my mates.”
David Kipping actually I thought I like all the actors from the game because it's kind of the Game of Thrones M version t… 1
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“actually I thought I like all the actors from the game because it's kind of the Game of Thrones M version two or something right just put into like the modern world or something with aliens”
Doug Brunt Like if you open George RR Martin's Game of Thrones and you see Times New Roman, you're going to be like, W… 1
Discussed
“Like if you open George RR Martin's Game of Thrones and you see Times New Roman, you're going to be like, What is this? like the best versions of those books look like it was written by an elf, you know, like Bilbo Baggin, something a little medieval and fanciful”
Emily Jashinsky Kyle said this to me yesterday was there's this part of Game of Thrones. You watch Game of Thrones where Li… 1
Discussed
“Kyle said this to me yesterday was there's this part of Game of Thrones. You watch Game of Thrones where Littlefinger says knowledge is power and Cersei says no power is power, right?”
Jason Calacanis I read all the books like I'm like plowing through them I I did not know going in that they did not end and… 1
Discussed
“I read all the books like I'm like plowing through them I I did not know going in that they did not end and so I'm like I'm in the what I wear the fifth book and I'm like getting you know they're huge and it's getting smaller and smaller the amount that I've left to read”
Konstantin Kisin I remember this great scene from Game of Thrones. Have you Have you seen Game of Thrones? Do you remember w… 1
Discussed
“I remember this great scene from Game of Thrones. Have you Have you seen Game of Thrones? Do you remember when cersei and King Robert, they're discussing the potential Dothraki invasion?”
Michael Easter even though you're falling asleep and it's been 13 hours of Game of Thrones and you're watching it 1
Discussed
“even though you're falling asleep and it's been 13 hours of Game of Thrones and you're watching it”
Tim Pool And I I think it was George R. Martin in Game of Thrones said, "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't… 1
Discussed
“And I I think it was George R. Martin in Game of Thrones said, "When you tear out a man's tongue, you don't prove him wrong.”
Todd Howard If you look at, I think you can flip through, let's just take fantasy, you can sort of look at a couple ima… 1
Discussed
“If you look at, I think you can flip through, let's just take fantasy, you can sort of look at a couple images or things and know how does "Lord of the Rings" different from "Game of Thrones" that is different than one like Excalibur”
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“And this is exactly what you think of as something from like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones or whatever. Yeah, it's like a dragon.”
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“and you got all these people he's like wow and they're just fighting amongst themselves let them it's like game of thrones red wedding on repeat every day the democrat primary”
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“As I've mentioned many, many times in many, many episodes, I have a slight obsession with Game of Thrones. It's my favorite show ever, and I love the books. And one of my favorite lines in the entire series is by Tywin Lannister.”
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“a little bit like Game of Thron. They didn't name Game of Thrones: A Song of Fire and Ice, which is the actual title. They're like, "Game of thrones, the first book. That's going to be the title of the whole thing”
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“And we're making a lot of progress, but the default Jason was to create an ORC chart. People would ask to hire people, then it's like who should report to whom. Yeah. Then you get Game of Thrones starting five.”
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“not like a magic invisibility cloak from Harry Potter where you can put it on and not be a criminal because you're a journalist.”
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“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, this is it. No, I have a strong feeling about this. You'll appreciate you do. You'll appreciate that I'm Kesi. And like her, I happen to have a few dragons for better or for worse”
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“There's all kinds of like Game of Thrones stuff that happens at this level, but Um AMI is going to be a company to watch because they're going straight to world-building.”
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“No, more like uh in Game of Thrones the the white walkers, they'll come to you like the white walkers at the wall in the north. They are going to come forever for you and they will destroy your company.”
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“Remember I kept comparing it to a red wedding last time we talked about this from Game of Thrones which is adapted from Song of Ice and Fire.”
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“They want to be the first trillionaire. They want to keep stacking. Game of Thrones.”
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“We don't have to be Game of Thrones forever.”
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“vers career-long politicians that just know how to play The Game of Thrones in politics to be able to get to exactly nicely put that scared the out of me when they started talking about that at that”
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“you might have other people just being candid and then you have Game of Thrones going on which we haven't even gotten to”
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“I think so, we always talk about how the Song of Ice and Fire and all those George R.R. Martin books are heavily influenced and inspired by actual, you know, historical struggles and political maneuvers and all that stuff.”
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“The reason you have Game of Thrones type situations with people trying to kill the king all the time is because you're competing for like the one non-poverty position in society.”
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“- No, it was more like a "Game of Thrones" kind of dragons.”
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“wow cuz I you know Game of Thrones as my greatest window into an accurate historical representation of what would have happened in medieval times for reproduction”
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“Yeah, exactly, that's like some Game of Thrones stuff. Dude, oh, it's heartbreaking, man.”
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“that's still from Game of Thrones yeah that that way it sounds cool”
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“Or watch football on TV right? You watch football on TV, but then I wanna watch get really into "Game of Thrones."”
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“It's it's not it's not a Game of Thrones situation where you have to have read all of the books. They're they're episodic.”
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“It's almost like how like in Game of Thrones you've just accepted that there are dragons in their world like you know just or like like in Lord of the Rings like Middle Earth is just a planet”
Speaker Behind the Bastards Cracktoberfest Part Three: The Iran-Contra Affair 2022-10-05 Listen at 11:42
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“if all i do is depress you to the point where you just start re-watching game of thrones instead of paying attention to the news cycle at all even better”
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“especially when your friends are all masters of the universe maniacs who run their own fighters this is like game of thrones the four of us like all four of us run businesses all 4 of us run funds”
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“And if I'm if I'm remembering from Game of Thrones, they could still be very aggressive. Um Mhm. That's right. That's right. That's the whole That's the whole point.”
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“when uh when Game of Thrones says winter is coming people people in the United States don't really understand what that means anymore”
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“and i think he should spend the rest of his time on this planet doing a game of thrones style walk of shame for everything that he has done in his life”
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“if the mountain was in the room with us the mountain from game of thrones i think we could all take them no no no no no no you don't think even if we knew we were gonna lose a couple of us we couldn't take him”
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“i go back look people there's there's some guy who's getting on me for running a game of thrones blog and that's like how i first you know kind of was operating on the internet and so i was getting on me over this and they were like oh you're just a game of thrones wire i was like well”
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“Like, if you were creating the world of "Lord of the Rings" or "Game of Thrones," right?”
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“like for instance like we you know mountain from the game of thrones that enormous giant human being”
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“when does that many [ __ ] Epis king of Game of Thrones king of Thrones Game of Thrones when there's that many [ __ ] episodes”
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“Chaos is a ladder? Is uh the game I think that's the Game of Thrones quote that people keep telling me.”
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“this happened of course with George R Martin and Game of Thrones how the authors kind of navigate that”
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“it's like Game of Thrones a hundred percent yeah yeah it's like you're gonna tell you what it's not it's not Game of Thrones yeah yeah I'm gonna season three - don't give me this Boy month season five”
Speaker This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von Chris D'Elia 2 | This Past Weekend #204 2019-06-06 Listen at 28:01
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“It's supposed to be Saddam's Game of Thrones.”
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“Game of Thrones”
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“now watch Game of Thrones”
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“Which is like the Moondoor in Game of Thrones, through which teams, the bottom three teams every year, are just callously chucked down.”