Pic: Somebody has put a bookmark on every single page there’s a death in the Game of Thrones books

Fans of the books and the TV series won’t need to be told that there are quite a lot of bookmarks.

Fans of the Game of Thrones books or the TV series will know that George R.R. Martin is certainly a talented dude with a very vivid imagination (very, very vivid at times if you get our drift) but my word, his writing style isn’t half ruthless. Let’s just say that 300 or Saving Private Ryan ain’t got nothing on GOT when it comes to the kill count. No sooner has a reader become emotionally attached to a character in Game of Thrones than they end up biting the dust – often in gruesome fashion – a few pages later and we can only imagine that the reason there are an awful lot of characters is because they are needed to sustain the storyline while so many of their friends or enemies are dropping dead all around. In an effort to prove the killing capacity of the books, somebody has gone to the trouble of putting a coloured marker on every single page in which there is a death, differentiating between the books by using different colour markers.

Every single death in the Game of Thrones series is marked here. File under: proof that George RR Martin is ruthless pic.twitter.com/UxYv3y11H6 — Waterstones Dorking (@WaterstonesDork) November 20, 2013

  According to the fansite asoiaf.westeros.org, there are 284 deaths in the Song of Ice and Fire books and while we don’t want to give away any spoilers for those of you still working your way through the books or the TV series, if Martin keeps going the way he is, every character will probably end up dead anyway. Winter is coming alright, coming for everyoooooonnnne. Hat-tip: Buzzfeed