Which one is superior with regards to character building, pacing and narrative in asoif, the books or the TV series?

Which one is superior with regards to character building, pacing and narrative in asoif, the books or the TV series?

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Books in all categories.

first 4 seasons are on the same level as books. Then books win.

They're both crap.

>4
Strange way to write 1 but ok

I only watched like three or four episodes of the show. The show felt very rushed. The books are better, to no one's surprise.

Is this really worth reading? Be honest Yea Forums, because there's a shitton of other things to read. I liked the show until season 4.

The first three books are the best. If you don't enjoy the first 200 pages of book 1, give up.

>Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.

>character building
books
>pacing
gotta give this to a TV show by default because the pace of the books has slowed to a crawl
>narrative
books

Books get pretty grrmdark

Don’t bother until the series is finished, if that ever happens.

pacing is better in the show I think. The books in 4 and 5 really needed to be cut altogether.

I hate game of thrones but I think the Lannister family is one of the best stories
which one of the books is about them?

Better than at least 3 dany scenes from the show soooo

Fpbp television is for morons.

Depends on your standards. If they're low, maybe. If you're looking to read actual great literature, then no, obviously not, but then why would you even need to ask that?

If you actively ignore the existence of characters like Dany or Brienne, the books are actually great.

great line

>tfw you realise that with digital copies of books the only thing preventing 'fan rewrites' of books, removing unpopular characters etc, is that it would take an assload of time
>tfw the internet is full of people with an assload of time

>Which one is superior with regards to character building, pacing and narrative in asoif, the books or the TV series?

>OP is trolling

All of them have Lannister POVs

I like it when I first read them, but the series gets worse as it goes along. The story is a mess and there's a lot of annoying things and bad historical tropes, like the unnecessary cruelty towards peasants or the prevalence of rape. Martin has an obvious leftist perspective and it pervades his work in some very hamfisted and nonsensical ways, like his views on banking and money with the Hound having his money taken and being given a useless IOU which he then passes on to other people.

The most egregious things about the books is how much Martin relies on fakeout deaths. The reader is led believe that every single main character dies at least once. It gets very old and by Dance I was rolling my eyes.

It was unironically the only fiction that has captured me in the last 10 years. It‘s not pretending to be deep, it knows it‘s place. To entertain.