Game of Thrones pgs. 1 - 75 summary

To be honest I am not quite sure what is happening.  After the prologue the story takes us to I guess the

family that rules the North, I’m not quite sure if that’s right or not.  Either way there are two daughters

and a bunch of sons, I think 5 and then there is the bastard child.  They go out to deal with something

and then someone gets beheaded because he was talking about the ghost people who apparently have

not existed for years.  Pushing forward the king of the south, I think, comes to visit because he is

friends with Ned somehow and he proposes to join their families.  Ned is torn by this because he

doesn’t want to leave the North but his wife is pushing the idea for her daughters sake and then there

was something about a letter from her sister (this part was particularly confusing and I have no idea

what the letter meant I just know that something bad is happening because someone died and if Ned

goes to the South he can figure out more).  So the queen has two brothers and one of them is called an

“imp” which is a dwarf or little person.  This is Tyrion and he is quite the character.  Her other brother

is tall and handsome and at the end of this section of the story Bran is climbing up the wall of the castle,

like he likes to do, and he hears groaning sounds coming from the window.  He goes to look in the

window and finds the queen and her good-looking brother (not the imp) having sex.  I mean I don’t

know how they did it in this time period but I guess that incest was cool with them so rock on.  Once

they have discovered that they have been caught the man pushes Bran out the window where he falls to

the ground.

I really don’t know how I feel about the book.  It is hard to gage a reaction when I really have no idea

what is going on.  I watched the first episode after I read to try and get a gage on it but it didn’t really

help that much.  I think its super violent and scandalous which is cool so hopefully the more I read the

easier it will get to comprehend.  Some questions I have are 1) What is the letter that Catelyn got about

and why is it so significant and 2) How did the king and Ned know each other before.