Have any of ye read the books?

response appreciated - spoilers are not..

As a guy who is half way through the first book (and loving it) does the show do the book justice? I kind of want to watch it once i finish the first book but i'm also kind of a afraid the adaptation isn't good.

You may want to stay clear of these things if you're afraid of spoilers.

You'll be surprised how much of the conversation in the book made it into the show, so to say it doesn't do the book justice would be madness. It has the actors and the production values. 

You're mistaken the second and fifth books in addition to the first are better :)

Come on. While I agree the second book is better than the third (which is way overrated due to one scene), the fifth is a complete slog with POVs that go nowhere, characters brooding and traveling instead of doing interesting things, and no sense of progress at all besides one or two major plotlines. It seems like it was written by the likes of Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan, who excelled in that kind of sloppy writing.

Honestly I'm afraid Martin joined pretty much every other major f/sf series out there in the sense they lose the touch as the books roll on. Pratically only Steven Erikson managed to deliver over the whole series, and even him had some flaws.

Yep, can't wait for this. Started watching it with wife when I walked in and saw a... very interesting scene with some hot little blonde action...

Story is really good with or without the mature scenes.

Waaa, keep the spoilers at bay please :)

OT: Awesome stuff, will check the trailer later at home ^_^

I can agree that that's been happening since the third. No matter I think the fifth is great though it ultimately solves nothing. Jon was as great as Tyrion in the second book or Eddard in the first
  

Maybe the wait made it look worse than it actually was. It was better than the fourth for sure.

And yeah makes you wonder what GRRM have against hard-working guys. In fact, now that I think about it, everyone who's seen success got it due to subterfuge. 

Anyways this thread is about the series (which, by the way, is looking amazing) and we should stick to it.