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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I ended up buying the first installment of this here series. Thus far it's damn near an exact replica of the show, save some differences in the character's physical description and obviously books always expound a bit on non-essential information..
Does that change much throughout the series? Does the show diverge much from the book at any point? As much as I love the show, I'm not sure I want to spend the next few months of my life reading 4,000 pages of some shit I just watched.
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The show did most of its diverging in just the last few episodes, actually.
I don't know how far into the books you are, but one of the main things the show doesn't (or can't) do is get into the history and background of a lot of the issues and houses and such. It's not essential to understanding the story, but it really provides a lot of depth, and the story actually makes a lot more sense.
I'd definitely read it if I were you. I've already read them all, and I'm in the middle of reading them again.