Gotta agree with you. The show def has more (unecessary) sex scenes than the books, tho they both have their fair share. Like some one else said alot of the book has more insight as to what each character is thinking and in the show they had to translate that into dialogue so they had to create characters such as the the redheaded whore that makes her way across the Seven Kingdoms to delve deeper into the characters like Theon and Littlefinger. Over all tho, I couldn't put down the books and I'm eagerly waiting for season three.