Anyone else watch and love the game of thrones on HBO?

I loved the first episode, especailly as a fan of the books.

I was thinking of taping it but got side tracked this weekend. Maybe I'll catch it later. Is it any good? Haven't read the books.

You haven't read the books? Go now, right now and pick up the first book...you will not be dissapointed.

You don't need to read the books to like the show, but the books expand on a lot of the ideas of the show. It was excellent in my opinion. Take the production values of Rome and turn it to a low magic fantasy world. I loved it.

I haven't read the books but I'm definitely interested in the show. Alas I do not get HBO so my only option to see would be shady internet method until they come out with a season DVD. By the way HBO already picked the show up for another season after just one episode.

Truth is it's been far too long since I've enjoyed a good book so I may have to give this series a read. Stephen King's Dark Tower series is first on my list though.

The fact I have reread the series a few times so far shows just how good it is. Yes on the renew.

A geek's dream:)

After all of these glowing comments, I have been inspired to download Game of Thrones. The series sounds like great fun. Only have a couple of "required" readings to plow through first. Thanks for the heads up!

First episode was good, and has a very nice cliffhanger

Once again I'm out of the loop.

EDIT: Been looking at YouTube clips... the show really looks quite good. Sorta makes me wish I had HBO.

It's a good adaptation and that surprised me. I was, of course, greatly disappointed with how they handled certain aspects of the story but overall I liked it a lot. My biggest complaint was that most of the character's personalities didn't really get to shine through and a LOT of detail was lost in the transition to the small screen but oh well.

Well, some personnalities like Rob Stark don't shine much, even in the books