3) The First Law
What is it?:
Imagine four characters, the first an out-of-luck Conan the Barbarian, the second an Errol Flynn dreamer, the third an even more extroverted, less-personable Javert and the last, a Merlin type, who may or may not be a snake oil salesman. Now imagine “The First Law,” a book that seeks to shove the four into an enclosed space and shake it up.
Why Should it be Adapted?:
Game of Thrones is praised for having a lack of distinction between good guys and bad guys, which is mostly true, but still doesn’t account for the fact that characters like Joffrey and Cersei, the Boltons and the Freys are without a doubt, honest-to-god bad guys. What “The First Law” has is a genuine sense of confusion of who the hero and villain is, creating something truly anti-Manichean, and clever to boot.
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