I should've known you'd see it that way, if you reckon you could do a better job of converting five sprawling novels into a single TV show I'd like to see you try. Of course the books are "better", books always are because they can describe what's going on inside the characters heads without them having to say it aloud or resort to a cringey voiceover.
More the point the TV show has a ton of stuff missing from the books, many of the characters are way more fleshed out, like those awesome scenes between Arya & Tywin. Yeah its overly sexed up & there's too much emphasis on comic book violence but with Yanks in charge that's always going to happen, at least we don't have American accents to deal with. Just enjoy the show for what it is dude.
Book purists can GAGF as far as I'm concerned.