Fantasy Booklist: What Everyone In Game Of Thrones Is Reading
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Tyrion Lannister: The Goldfinch
Tyrion had time to burn, waiting for his execution for the alleged murder of his psychopathic nephew King Joffrey. A great brick of a book would suit Tyrion, perhaps saving him from ruminating about his cousin Orson’s penchant for smashing beetles, so at 771 pages, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch would fit the bill perfectly. Goldfinch’s protagonist Theo Decker miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother, as does Tyrion — the accident of his birth — for which his father and sister can never forgive him. And as an adult Theo finds himself at the centre of a dangerous circle — something Tyrion can relate to only too well, for nowhere in Westeros could be more dangerous than the heart of the Lannister family.