• Magnor
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    11 months ago

    Well my pants aren’t fancy at all thank you very much :p.

    The show is great, and so are the books. Mostly I would start by watching the show which is, for the first season at least, much more polished imho (the writers of the book were also show runners). After that, the show ends at book 6 (there are 9 total) but several character arcs are tweaked so I would recommend reading at least books 3 to 6 before 7.

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      11 months ago

      “(the writers of the book were also show runners)”

      This must be why the books read like a TV or movie script to me.

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        11 months ago

        The books came much earlier than the show. What they meant was that the showrunners involved the writers of the books in the production of the show, which resulted in a much more faithful adaptation than is usual for these things.

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          11 months ago

          Yes exactly. Thank you for clarifying my mangled sentence :).