[Daedalusman]

So how old was everyone when the first got into George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series? I was 17.

[Holbrook]

Actually never read it!

[Draxinusom]

Never read it nor will I start until the series is finished, no matter how good it is supposed to be.

[DarthV]

I am of the same mind. I won't touch it until it's finished. Then again I might get tempted to read just the first book as a teaser.

[fluffy bunny]

Was 2 or 3 yrs ago for me. But I only consider the book as average at the mo.

[kahnovitch]

Originally posted by Holbrook
Actually never read it!

Ditto.
I did see an animated movie a long time ago called "Fire and Ice", but have no idea if the two are connected.

[kassimir funk]

Too old I think

[Miriamele]

I've never read it either, but I do plan to eventually, after everything I've heard about it.

[Eventine]

I'm guessing the purpose of this post has something to do with some of the more graphic scenes in the novels, and determining what level of maturity a person should reach before being allowed to read these books (otherwise why not just ask for some other unit of measurement - How tall were you when you read Lord of the Rings?).
IMO, age isn't always a reflection of ones maturity. Add to that cultural differences between all the members on the board, and age pretty much becomes irrelevant (although I'm sure that when all cultural/individual differences are taken into account, there is a minimum age at which one shouldn't be reading this book._

To answer the question though (it may at least give us some interesting statistics on board members) I was 20 when I first read these books. I gave them to my younger sister to read, she was 15 at the time.

[milamber_reborn]

Started reading Game Of Thrones last week. Top notch thus far.

BTW, I'm 20, but I didn't start reading fantasy properly until about four years ago. Since then, I've read all of Feist, Tolkien, some King and all of Jordan.