Fantasy Booklist: What Everyone In Game Of Thrones Is Reading
Are you smarter than a make-believe child who kills things?
Tywin Lannister: The Art Of War
And what of Tywin himself? Patriarch of House Lannister, Hand of the King, the puppet master, pulling all the strings: what would he have read? He had no time for the frivolities of fiction; only one book was worthy of his attention, the ancient Chinese military treatise The Art of War. Unfortunately, it didn’t have a chapter on how to avoid getting shot in the chest with a crossbow at point-blank range by the son you condemned to death, while sitting on the loo.