HBO + 'Game of Thrones' = awesome?

Okay, I know I said in the previous post I don't write much about development, but I've been getting so many questions over the last year about HBO's attempt to adapt George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" that I figured HBO's decision to greenlight the series (which Mo Ryan has more details on) deserved a post of its own.

I'm not much of a fantasy reader, but Mo and James Poniewozik effectively tag-teamed me (during our pizza summit) to give the books a try at some point soon. Maybe after I finish the two combat diaries that "The Pacific" is using as source material? (And no, not all of my reading choices are based on what HBO is up to. It just seems like that some months.)