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it's me too! love love love this series.

Anyone still watching Game of Thrones? I am just starting the second season and I love it!!!!!!!!!

@hellobeeboston: I never even knew there were books!! Are they easy to read?

@hellobeeboston: I was laughing at my dumb comment asking if they are easy to read! I sound like a total dummy! I get enough challenging reads for my work, so I like easy reads at night. That's awesome. I'm seriously addicted to the show.

OMG! That's exactly how I feel about the chapters. hahaha

I've read the first 3 and am trying to savour the last few because I just love them so much!

@MrsMcD: haha!! I wasn't sure what you meant! I think he tends to go on & on sometimes in the books an I will skim (like the chapters about Greyjoys/Reek) the last book left practically every storyline hanging so I can't wait... Supposedly he is almost done, then there will be one more!

@hellobeeboston: considering there was a scene this season that was most certainly NOT in the book, it goes to reason that Martin already knows the ending and has shared it with the HBO writers. I've been reading these books since high school. He took 6 YEARS to write the last one. I mean ... COME ON!

@hellobeeboston: omg I just saw this. There was the scene where the white walker took the baby boy and placed him on the altar and then a white walker "king" took his finger and it changed him from human to a white walker. that's completely new. Not in any of his books and plays into how they are building their white walker army (as opposed to taking already dead bodies and changing them).

@aegie: It's interesting, too, because apparently someone at HBO effed up and put that white walker king down as "The Night's King" in their initial credits. People who had read the books started freaking out (if you have read the books, it's a very interesting revelation that the Night's King is still alive and creating a white walker army), and they took that down.

So, yes, GRRM has shared how the rest of the books will go. It also sounds like they're really going to start deviating from the books, especially now that they're catching up (and will soon pass) where GRRM is with the writing.

He is SO SLOW. I just hope he doesn't die before he's done writing the series Is that horrible of me to say??

@aegie: 8?? I thought it was 6 or 7. It'll be 20 years before he's done.

@Leialou: originally his publisher wanted 7 books for the 7 kingdoms. But it's now going to be 8.

@theotherstark: I'm the same way. When he cowrote some GoT mini story for another book and some companion piece to the world of ice & fire ... I was like HELLO! Finish your important book and stop messing with these fillers! LOL

@Adira: OMG don't even get me started on that rape scene!!! WTF?! It was a huge blow to Jaime's character in the show, and it drove me nuts. ETA: and the fact that the writer's apparently "didn't realize" that they portrayed a rape scene?! Yeah...

@aegie: Right?! Yeah, he co-edited a book of short stories and I was like, dude. Finish your novel, THEN focus on your fun pet projects. Haha.

@theotherstark: Yes! I really like Jaime from the books (well, once we started to get to know him) and I think that scene in the movie really was a disservice to his character. Though then again, he pushed a kid off a tower so...

@snowjewelz: At this point I'm thinking I'm more likely to get a satisfying ending out of the show than I am from GRRM! He's just not focused at all!! And his last two books were a bunch of blah blah blah that barely moved the plot forward AT ALL. Though GRRM wants the show to basically not end and have a movie for a finale. I hope they don't do that since then the movie might never get made!

@snowjewelz: I don't think the producers or HBO want to do that. They want to be able to end the show as a complete set and not do a movie! So I think that's what will happen! GRRM just wants a big movie budget for some of those finale scenes I think, haha!

@Adira: @theotherstark: Can we also talk about Brianna fighting the Hound? Or the fact that Lady Stoneheart never appears?

@aegie: @theotherstark: I haven't finished this season, so haven't seen this part yet, but I will definitely be disappointed in Lady Stoneheart isn't in the show!! Also... the whole Brienne fighting the Hound... that didn't happen in the books at all! Doesn't the Hound get wounded in a fight in a bar and Arya leaves him to die?? And then Biter steals his helm and HE'S the one that fights Brienne?

@mrbee: Ugh, I definitely think it sucks people are just devoting their time to attacking him! That's unfair! I just think he's slow, haha, but I've also never had to write a sprawling 17 main characters story before! I also think I've gotten spoiled by Brandon Sanderson who keeps a progress bar on his website for all the books he's working on and keeps his readers well informed on exactly where he is and what he has left to do! I his style as an author - he seems to treat it like a real job and dedicates 8-9 hours a day writing!

@Adira: Yes! exactly, BIG BIG difference.

@aegie: just catching up on this!! I wondered about Lady Stoneheart too but figure there was so much jammed into the last episode that could be a good way to start the next season!

I get why they deviated from the book for the fight with the hound - better to fit in a sword fight then have him die of a wound.

You know what is terrible - I read all the books and TOTALLY forgot about stannis heading north! my husband was like - who is that??? - and I had no idea. Started coming back to me as I watched though. Ha, oops.