Read this in the midst of watching HOTD and boy oh boy you can say GRRM wrote this by how seeing how raw the storyline is and how detailed long this book is. I listened to the audiobook which was around 24 hours long. One sad thing was this was written not in fictional form. Genuis of GRRM but I miss the fictional element of GOT. In a way it was a smart way to record the historical events from not just one witnesses but a several. Like how folklores are made of.