but I don't think I'll ever read the books, at least not any any time soon.

that all makes sense though; the Dany stuff has never bothered me with the show, but I can totally see it feeling interminable following that timeline of the books you just put down. I'd never even looked into the publication dates of the books before, I'd just known it's been two decades.

One thing I'm totally grateful for the show eclipsing the books is I can freely read any and all book spoilers and just think, huh, cool, rather than "oh fuck is this ruining things?" if the horn book readers all thought / (hoped?) would be Euron's bounty had shown up, cool! if it didn't...less cool, but the show remains the show I've been watching. It's fun for me now because it's almost fan fiction in my understanding of the show; I totally get if the show doesn't feel like "fun" fan fiction for readers of the books, though.

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