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The most recent season of Game of Thrones ended last week. For anyone who hasn't fully committed, every season gets better and it's one of the best shows to binge watch. Having read the books the past few seasons have been especially exciting because the show has gone beyond what has been written so far and is into uncharted territory.
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My thoughts on it are mixed. I suspect it's a much better show if you haven't read the books.
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Why would you read the books when there is a YV show ???
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My thoughts on it are mixed. I suspect it's a much better show if you haven't read the books.
I would probably agree with this. This is pretty much always the case when it comes to book to screen material. I think they did a well enough job at condensing 5,000 pages into the first 5.5 seasons though. I definitely wish some of the earlier seasons had the budget the newer ones do as there were some very cool scenes early on that they clearly did not have the money to do it justice.
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Loved Season 7, John and Sir Davos are like a fantasy/ medieval Lethal Weapon pairing
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Why would you read the books when there is a YV show ???
Because when I started reading the books twenty years ago, there was no tv show ?
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@Chris my wife read the books prior to the show (re-read once the show started) and she has a love/hate relationship with the show…I feel this is the normal occurrence with most books that turn into movies and TV shows.
I have not read the books and really enjoy the show...and now want to read the books
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Why would you read the books when there is a YV show ???
Because when I started reading the books twenty years ago, there was no tv show ?
Weeeeeell, lookee like we got ourselves a reader….
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@Chris my wife read the books prior to the show (re-read once the show started) and she has a love/hate relationship with the show…I feel this is the normal occurrence with most books that turn into movies and TV shows.
I have not read the books and really enjoy the show...and now want to read the books
Be warned @Dstauffer if you read the books there will be scenes and some characters in the books that will really one up the show. You'll be left thinking, "Wow they really half assed that in the show" or "Why didn't they put that in the show!?". Having said that I still really enjoyed both the books and the show so far.
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Honestly, I don't think I'd recommend reading the books to anyone considering starting now. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them, and the first three are phenomenal, but Martin started having difficulties with his writing about fifteen years ago, and books four and five are, at best, mediocre. He claims it will be a seven book series, and book five was published in 2011. There's no credible expectation for when book six will be done, let alone book seven. I don't think it's a good idea to commit to 5,000+ pages of reading with a strong likelihood of never seeing the end of the series.
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I read book 1-4 in one go and then had to wait years until a dance with dragons was published. Never got back into the story after the long break and stoped after 300 pages. Now, after the TV series fucked it all up when they had no more books to draw Inspiration from, I don't think I'll pick the book up again. And I don't think that G.R.R.M. will ever finish book 6 and 7, now that the story finishes on TV.
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Generally speaking, I think people go to the whole book/film debate the wrong way. The thing is that they are two entirely different forms of communication that try to tell the same story (more or less). The formats are so different that comparing them is a pointless task. Add to that the enormous difference in the two industries involved and you basically comparing apples and oranges. I try to enjoy each for what they are.
LoTR being a great case in point. It received lots of praise for staying true to the story, but it really didn't. What it did do was a great job of telling the story from the books in a different medium while also making a book many described as unfilmable into a going concern. I think GoT has managed the same trick, which given the pressures a tv show is under, that novelists just don't have to relate to, is quite impressive.
All that being said, the problem with both the films of LoTR and GoT is that if you've seen them first I think they would create serious problems when reading the books because you're brain would be filling in with visuals from the screen as you read. In both cases that would often jar with the descriptions on the page.
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I had this exact same problem when recently reading Stephan King's The Shinning after watching the movie many times as well as a documentary about the film.
The issue went deeper than imagery as Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrence is at times very different than the book at times, which ultimately made it difficult for my mind to process the information regarding that character.
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Which in my opinion proves the point. GoT is just telling the story. Doesn't matter that it hasn't been released in novel form. I know people are criticising S7 for being lightweight and blaming that on thin source material, but I think it's more to do with the necessity of finishing the damn thing.
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