Haven’t read the books. Watched both HBO mini-series. They’re okay. Each episode is typically a rotation of sex scenes, fight scenes, and characters telling one another war/whore stories (depending on the gender of the speaker).
Eventually, it turns into one dang thing after another: a sex scene, a fight scene, a tall tale, a fight scene, a tall tale, a sex scene, a tall tale, a sex scene, a fight scene... It’s easy to lose track of who is who and why you even care after a while. Especially after Rob Stark dies. “Dragon Lady” is the only stand-out character at this point.
After the fact, any way. You're mentioning stuff that hasn't aired yet. Just saying.
I watch it too on HBO and the series is okay. If I wanted to read his books I would use the library. I certainly wouldn’t buy them.