I read the books first, but couldn't get in to them. It was almost a year before I reading another shot, and after that I was hooked. Also, I accidentally ended up at a George R. R. Martin panel at comic con and that was cool.
"Napoleon attacked by rabbits" so I had to go google search it. "The story of Napoleon being "defeated" by rabbits during a hunt in 1807 is a humorous anecdote, but it's not a confirmed historical fact, though it is mentioned in General Thiébault's memoirs. "