Boars, Gore, and Swords: A Dance with Dragons: The Bastard’s Boys
Boars, Gore, and Swords
The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club continues with its coverage of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” chapters covered by HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Having covered all of the relevant chapters in A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows (Full spoiler-free reading guide here), we enter George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons, covering Bran I (Page 60) and Reek I (Page 161). Ivan and Red discuss warg sex, reading documentaries, Big Walder and Little Walder, The Bastard’s Boys, Fake Arya, the Kim and Kanye of Westeros, the Great Elks, the effect of weather on Hodor, and the importance of verifying the aliveness of your party guide.
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