In response to Kuz's status update conversation about books...No spoilers within, just tags because it's long...
I'm guilty of being one of those 'read the books!' broken-record people in this topic alone. If you've never been into reading like JustAn808 or bOnEs, then you might not be drawn to read them in the first place...whereas I read the books years before it was turned into a show because I happen to like reading, and someone suggested this series to me.
However, I'm not cheerleading for the books because I think books are superior to movies or shows. For me it's all about story. That's one of the reasons I used to work in the performing arts - it was storytelling on a bigger scale. There's an interesting conversation to be had about which medium is best for telling different tales...a film can have a single, sweeping, unbroken, underscored panoramic shot that would take 25 pages to explain in a book. A book can have reams of extra information that provides a deeper understanding of characters, but including it all would make a movie too long. Theatre involves a live performance, a communion between actors, crew and audience; it has a dynamic you can't find in film or books. Then there's TV shows, comic books, graphic novels, audio books, indie videos, music, video games etc...Books have their advantages, and their limitations, just like all the others...I'd never say that books are better. Story matters above all.
@ Kuz - yes, there are a lot of extra happenings in the books that aren't on the show. A lot.
When I first read the books, I had to keep one finger in the appendix at the back that shows the Houses, to keep track of all the characters...there are sooo many people in the books. The books' story has been extremely well adapted (...for the most part...) into a gorgeous TV series with excellent production values. The show collects a master thread of the book story, keeps it together and flowing along, but it's only a toe dipped in the pool here in there. The TV show is like a high-end restaurant's tasting menu, a 30-course meal where each plate holds one single, sublime bite. By comparison, the books are like the 77-course feast at Joffrey and Margaery's wedding.
I know you non-reader types like a good story too, that's one of the reasons you play certain video games. Since you like the GoT story on TV...if you find yourself hankering for more, well there's an indepth, complex, immersive world that G.R.R. Martin has created. To me it's on par with wandering around Skyrim or exploring the Wasteland...the books offer a world to explore with a comparable depth, detail and complexity.
If you can lose yourself in a Bethesda game for 10 straight hours and not even notice, you have the capacity to lose yourself in the books too. You even have the advantage of knowing many of the key characters in advance.
TL:DR
If you're a fan of the show, consider the books even if you're not a reader, because the story is fucking awesome.