I have started to watch this. Though I will not read the books because I have little patience for fantasy reading, too many names and places and complex stories...just too much going on so I do not read. The tv show I am starting to like though, typically I do not like the medieval stuff but it is growing on me.
I watched S01, I am excites for S02. I'm in the middle of reading game of thrones, but it's taking forever just because it's so out of my typical genre that I can't just plow through it like I normally would. I think it's good, and a lot of the scenes from the show are exactly like the book...but chronology is a bit off sometimes.
It was a pretty good series. Got kinda raw in the middle and dragged on. But good start and end. I watched spartacus after this and it kinda made it look like less of a show.