A part of me would like to know the rest of the story, i. Another part of me is afraid to get lost in the middle of stories that the TV didn't mention i.
The TV show only scratches the surface of what the books contain, in my opinion. Due to the constraints of the TV medium, several aspects of the books have been modified or deleted. You'll reap the full benefit of George R. Martin's creativity by reading the books. One analogy that I've come across is the Lord of the Rings.
The movies were great, but still don't contain all of the depth that is present in Tolkien's original books. In the end I believe that most fans would greatly enjoy the story arcs contained within the books that the TV show was based on.
You'll have the added benefit of moving ahead of where the TV series is focusing on, since the books have been out for a longer period of time.
More information can be found on the author's site or the Wikipedia page for the series. The stories are generally the same, though you will notice some differences between the TV series and the books for both dramatic and running-time reasons, but the TV series is, generally, a very faithful adaptation of the books.
If you enjoy reading and you enjoy, the television series, you should at least give the books a try. However I would suggest reading from the start, as the differences may be enough to be confusing, as you are concerned about. I think I have a unique, or at least a less common, perspective on this from which to lend some advice.
This is going to be long , the last paragraph is a shortened version. Stack Exchange is usually about solid answers with references and empirical data, but this is a subjective question on subjective matter. I'll start with the 1 fact that applies to this question. There are many, many differences between the books and the show. These differences usually lie in the details, but there is such an immense amount of detail in the books that it all adds up to quite a bit of difference between the 2 mediums.
I give an example of one of these differences below and talk about how small it is overall but how it still brings a lot to the book. I did not read the books yet. I plan to start reading them very soon.
The 3rd season of the show is about to end tomorrow evening. In 3 seasons, much has happened. Very big surprises and twists and turns. My chief concern was that knowing these things before hand could make the books more boring than they would have been had I not watched the show. I knew some things about the story before they happened in the show.
Some of the things I knew simply because the internet can be hazardous when it comes to popular media spoilers. I would be reading about a character I like and read just a tiny bit too far and glimpse something huge. I knew the details of the Red Wedding almost a year before it aired this season just last week without reading the books.
I was still amazed at the scene in the show when it finally happened, just as I was with anything else I knew prior to it happening. Come to think of it, I might have known about every single major death before it happened and my enjoyment of the series wasn't as diminished as you might think. Things are just so interesting in these stories that knowing some of the major plot points doesn't completely ruin the adventure.
Add your rating. Parents say 14 Kids say Adult Written by brockblack October 13, This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. This review Helped me decide 1. Had useful details 1. Read my mind 1. Report this review. Adult Written by Username May 7, Extremely goooooooooooooooooood This book series is the best book series in the whole world, it is a bit graphic though, the most graphic part about it is the violence and language There is sex in it as well but it's very infrequent and rarely graphic.
This title contains: Educational Value. Positive Messages. Helped me decide 2. Had useful details. Adult Written by Nafi S. January 13, A great read for a mature reader. This series has extreme violence, torture, horrors of war, sex, gang rape and mature themes that are not suitable for children. Its a great series, but is certainly not for children. You can't take a popular character played by a bravura actress and pulling a massive paycheck, at that and leave her on the sidelines for a whole season.
So the showrunners did what adapters have done since time immemorial: They made something up. Dany's "missing dragons" arc was pure invention and, love it or hate it, it was a sign of things to come. As the show progressed, the writers made increasingly illogical leaps in order to keep the story tidy and followable.
In Season 3, the show leaves out Lady Stoneheart, a fascinating character who raises some very unsettling questions about the nature of death in Westeros. In Season 4, the Hound faces off against Brienne of Tarth rather than random bandits, partially for dramatic effect, and partially because, again, you can't hire an actress like Gwendolyn Christie and then leave her out of the finale.
For the record, it's probably worth stating that I haven't seen Game of Thrones since the end of Season 4: I knew that Season 5 would move past the books, and I didn't want to spoil it for myself. Granted, this was back in , when we thought that The Winds of Winter was right around the corner.
I've done my best to avoid spoilers for the show since I would really like to read the books unspoiled, if they ever come out someday. But I have osmosed enough of the general conversation from social media, friends and family to grok what people don't like about Season 8: The characters seem to be contorting themselves to fit the plot, rather than the plot revolving around the characters' natural actions.
The idea that narrative should arise from characters logically pursuing their own goals isn't new; Aristotle said as much in Poetics. But Martin is famous for his embrace of the " gardening " school of writing. To paraphrase Martin, there are two types of writers, architects and gardeners.
Architects love planning elaborate stories, guided by outlines and established structures. Gardeners just build interesting characters and settings, push them against each other, and see what happens. And Martin himself is definitely a gardener. But as it's unfolding, the plot looks like a beautiful mess of random happenstance and unpredictability. This is why characters die so frequently: because Martin has no particular reason to keep them alive. A Game of Thrones is pretty good but each book gets progressively worse.
Just watch the show. The Game of Thrones author revealed in his latest blog post that the long-delayed completion of the next installment in the Song of Ice and Fire franchise is now back on his to-do list. The very last scene of the first episode which continues into the first scene of the next episode.
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