real.geizterfahr: Uhm... I still haven't finished season 3 :/ Somehow I got annoyed by the "mature theme" of the series, which HBO translated to tits, pussies and sex scenes in Littlefinger's brothels -.- I have nothing against nudity, don't get me wrong, I love nude women. But in my opinion they overdid it to a point, where it isn't "mature" anymore. There's barely an episode without nudity. Just look at Ros for example. Her character was created for the TV series (= she is not in the books) and her role essentially is to walk around naked...
The books are great. I even bought them in English to get the unaltered experience (the translation sucks big time!). But the TV series... I don't know. There are some very well played characters (Jaime, Brienne, Jon, Tyrion, Sansa, Joffrey, ...), but somehow it's losing me due to the way HBO is presenting it (there's more than the overdone nudity, but I can't even name it precisely).
The only thing I don't mind is the violance because battles like this are supposed to be bloody and brutal.
I wish I read the books aswell, but I don't know where to find a book store here (Borders is shut down sadly) unless they sell books in Walmart or something.