There are all sorts of things that are left to the readers to piece together (e.g. What happened to the Frey's who disappeared on the way to Winterfell in book 5* ) that it makes fan theories about other odd things (Why DID Tywin's corpse smell so damn bad?) seem plausible. My favorite crackpot theory is that Cersei and Jaime aren't Lannisters, as the king took certain "liberties" on their parents' wedding night.

* The "Rat Cook" (or whatever the story was) reference at the feast is a clue.

Ooh, I like that last one! That would explain their Targaryen-esque sibling relationship, for one.

And I deeply love the idea that Tyrion is Tywin's only kid. I suppose also that Jaime is both Kingslayer and Kinslayer. Okay, too, that NEITHER of Joffrey's sigils are accurate. That one makes me laugh.

Ha, Jessica, magic tree x-post.

If both theories are right that would make Jamie and Cersei and Jon Snow siblings and Danaerys would be there aunt. Right? It's been awhile since I've read the books and I don't think I finished the last one.

I have read the white font, and having not read any of the books, the white font does not make sense to me at all.

It has been fun to read though.

No. Both the twins and Dany would be Aerys's. Jon would be nephew to the three of them, and half-brother to Griff (if he is who they say he is)

I've never read the books, and have only seen one episode, but thanks to this discussion, I just spent an hour reading all the character histories on Wikipedia. My brain hurts.

I just finished Tana French's Broken Harbor and after the first third of the book, I thought this was a really promising and interesting novel.

By the time I got to the end, I was pretty irritated and do not want to read any of the author's books again, and I cannot recommend this book to anyone at all.

The book is a "mystery" about the death of a family in a house in a remote seaside community in Ireland. There is one surviving member of the attack on the family. I will reveal no spoilers.

My first clue that I would not like the book is that the plot did not advance in any way about 30% in. The police investigators were still at the house, still in the first initial hours of investigation through a good bit of the book. Ostensibly the author was building character during that time, but unfortunately the character-building came apart at the seams in the latter part of the book when people acted completely out of character and inexplicably to get to the final very contrived events of the book.

What was worse is that there are characters in the book, whom the investigators encounter, who have mental illnesses. The author either didn't care or was sloppy about trying to explain what exactly was going on with the characters' illnesses. The particular symptoms and causes (if they could be established) would have been relevant to character development. Not a psychiatrist, but from my reading and knowing of others, psychological illnesses don't really work they way French portrayed them. I don't know what kind of research the author did, but man.

askye, that kind of speculation is pointless when Targaryens are involved, as illustrated by Oleanna's speech in the last TV episode.