Agreed. I'm still on the first book, but it's so descriptive and amazing. I highly recommend it to everyone
It is way more descriptive, totally worth it. The first one felt really close to the show, but A Clash of Kings actually deviates from the show a bit. That really kept me reading and I can only imagine all the things I'm still missing!
I'm in the middle of the first book after watching the series on tv, brilliant story
I just started re-reading the series after getting through the last released book A Dance With Dragons (ADWD) a few months ago. While I have some issue with how GRRM writes stylistically, I am amazed at his brilliance in weaving plot, position, power, and deep realistic characters together flawlessly. What truly convinces me of his genius on my reread is just how early on he foreshadows and sets things up with little current or historic details or off hand comments that can be read in multiple ways once you know where things are going. I'm sure there are things that's he foreshadowed in the first book that haven't even happened yet as of ADWD. I'm very much looking forward to the last two books.