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I think it's hilarious that you're extrapolating your experiences with the Red Wedding out to the rest of the series. That's what everybody does. That's what I did.
There's nothing "hasty" about Game of Thrones. If anything, the books are tedious in their detail. Book-wise, the show is less than half way through Book 3, and there's plenty of shit to get through.
Is it "plot plot plot?" Sure. That's called storytelling.
For what it's worth, I've never met anyone who didn't put the books down for a few months in the middle of Book 3. Like I said, that's basically where the series is right now. Every single one of them, however, picked them back up, and was glad for it.