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Game of Thrones - hide spoilers please.

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Trav Le Bleu

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3) Lack of horses. Again, I get that the budget is tight and they may cost a lot but I feel it really takes away a lot of the epicness and something feels missing when I've barely seen anyone mounted in the whole series. I do get it, it's just a little disappointing.

Lack of talking ravens.

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As answered before. The books are waaaaaaaaay better than the series unless you need a bit of soft porn to wank to and you don't have imagination.

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As with 99% of things: Books > film/tv!

I disagree I think whichever you do first spoils the other. The only exception to that was no country for old men, when I loved both but everything else in my experience is the first one always spoils the second.

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I disagree I think whichever you do first spoils the other. The only exception to that was no country for old men, when I loved both but everything else in my experience is the first one always spoils the second.

I disagree, I tend to read most books AFTER I watch something.

A short list of stuff I've watched first: Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Sphere, Running Man, Green Mile, Twilight, Dragonball, Lion witch wardrobe,

Stuff I've read; then watched: time traveller's wife, boy in striped pyjamas, da Vinci code, Angels and demons, Watchmen, Disclosure, Lovely bones,

Plus more I really can't think of; all books were either a bit better, or MUCH better than the programmes!

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have to agree books have always been better whether I've watched the film first or not. And sometimes completely different as in Running man that was mentioned (if it was the stephen King/Arnie running man).

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I watched season 1 of the tv show first then read the books. I don't feel it ruined anything.

The casting is very good on the show so it happened to transfer images of the characters to the books quite well IMO. Season 1 is better than Season 2 so personally I'd say either watch season 1 then go and start the books or just start reading the books and dig into the tv shows when you've covered the first 2 books.

Not sure how well future books are going to transfer to the screen. There's a lot of writing that contributes only to scheming and character development that is gripping on paper but might not satisfy the shorter attention spans of some of the tv viewers.

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As has been said Books are not limited to by budget or time constraints and generally will give you more insight into the thoughts feelings and back storys, I should imagine this is no different

However, I really don't have the time to read 1750 pages telling me a story I in effect already know, so I'm not going to bother lol

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Trav Le Bleu

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I watched season 1 of the tv show first then read the books. I don't feel it ruined anything.

The casting is very good on the show so it happened to transfer images of the characters to the books quite well IMO. Season 1 is better than Season 2 so personally I'd say either watch season 1 then go and start the books or just start reading the books and dig into the tv shows when you've covered the first 2 books.

Not sure how well future books are going to transfer to the screen. There's a lot of writing that contributes only to scheming and character development that is gripping on paper but might not satisfy the shorter attention spans of some of the tv viewers.

It also gets a lot more fantastical (from what I've read so far), so I'd imagine more to spend on the CGI and FX.

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