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by jseliger 5476 days ago
I'm not convinced. The show is pretty good, the books less so, for reasons I wrote about in detail here: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/17/people-like-a-game-of-thrones... .

I suspect this is a case of The Godfather and other book-to-movie adaptations I can't recall off the top of my head: the adaptation transcends its source material.
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pavel_lishin 5476 days ago
Fight Club is my go-to example of a film that was better than the original novel.
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bryanlarsen 5476 days ago
I think you have much higher standards for your books than for your TV.

GOT the TV show is being touted as the best TV show of the year. GOT the book is far from being the best book of 1996, yet I still believe the book is better than the TV show.

I believe that my opinion is the majority opinion. But it's nice to say that the TV adaptation is so good that a good case can be made for the other side.

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