GoT Reading Update

So, I am more than halfway through the first book of the Song of Fire and Ice collection, A Game of Thrones. Here are my thoughts on the book vs the show. First off, the book much much better obviously but also I can see how the producers and writers on the show have decided to make some of the scenes they use. There are a lot of scenes in the show that are a combination of two separate events in the book, typically the events are very closely related and they have combined the two and taken a little away to get what we see on the show. They are typically fairly in line with the storyline of the book but in general things are quite different. As I get further into the book things to seem to change more and more. The story is just so much more developed and detailed. There are so many things that make you think and change your opinion of the events you already know of. I cannot wait to get to the end of the book. The new girl who works with me now, Becky, is also reading them and she just finished the first book and said she could barely put it down at the end! Brans story line in the book is so much more detailed and interesting than what we got in the show. The whole trip to the Eyrie was condensed into one day on the show more or less and it was quite an event. Also Ser Rodrick was with Catelyn the whole trip, not back in Winterfell and there is a funny storyline about his whiskers. The way that things went down in Kings Landing with Eddard are quite different, not 100% but different. Anyhow, I really dont want to say too much because I do not want to give anything away. Oh, lastly though the amount of information we are denied about Dany's storyline in the show vs the book might be the worst, the Dothraki make much more sense to me now than in the show.

Update

Last night I saw the season finale of season 3 of GoT, everyone who watches knows the season finale wasnt much compared to the second to last episode "The Rains of Castamere" but better known as "The Red Wedding Episode". But it was an epic episode, and I am so excited. I am mostly excited bc I found out that they have split this season, this 3rd season was the first half of book 3 and season 4 will be then end of book 3 with possibly a little bit of the beginning of 4. So, yay for more detailed seasons of GoT! I am super sad that we wont get new episodes for 42 weeks. Thats some shit.
But I am reading the books now! Its official I started this morning. I have read the prologue and the first two chapters a Bran chapter and a Catelyn chapter. All three of these parts of the book have been in the show but they are so much more detailed and perfect on paper. The thing I like best is that I have a mental picture and a voice for almost every character. I agree making up your own is sometimes the most fun part of reading a new book, discovering characters but then when you see the movie or show you are disappointed bc they dont look and sound like youd expect. I like that its already set forth who everyone is and I can have Jon Snow in my head even more now.

JoJo and I decided we are going on an impromptu trip! Bob keeps going all over the damn place fishing and so I asked him when everyone was going to do something fun and he said ask your JoJo. So, I told JoJo Bob said we can go on a trip bc he keeps going fishing and I have a 4 day weekend next week so we threw together this little trip. We leave Thursday for Hilton Head Island and come back Sunday. Sunday we have to leave at like 715 AM so its really only 3 days but still. I dont have to take any time off and I get a free few days away plus just with JoJo and I can get some serious reading done!