I see, I see! Honestly you're not missing much (on the GoT fandom overall I mean).

Heeeh the books are better about some things and worse about other things I think. It might be better in term of being legit fantasy in term of tropes rather than playing so much at being just like a medieval history which I think the TV show pushed more because there's been so few fantasy TV show so far, especially ones made to be taken seriously; but it probably still wouldn't be you think indeed :)