I haven't read the Witcher books (yet), but if you want story above all else then you want the A Song of Fire and Ice books over the heavily simplified TV series.

Oh and to people saying that the last series of Game of Thrones was bad, don't forget that the book it was based on sucked just as bad. Let's hope it's a blip.

The nudity itself isn't really necessary though. I understand that there is often a lot of dialog (or 'sexposition') that adds to the story during those scenes, but most of them could probably have been done without the gratuitous nudity. :p

Wheel of Time to me is the richest fantasy world I've ever had the pleasure to adventure through in books, and if you haven't read it, please do yourself a favor and pick up the books. Jordan is long winded in many of his books but usually with good cause. It's not dark fantasy but rather high fantasy, so sex and really touchy subjects like racism, incest and rape aren't really a factor.

The witcher books are ok. Song of Ice and Fire are just too crudely written for me to get into honestly. Feels like it wants to be dark fantasy, wants to be edgy, like a 14 year old wants to be edgy. There's just not a ton of good things going on there.

I don't think there is anything immoral with nudity :) Maybe it wouldn't have mattered if I loved the series as it progressed, but I didn't, so... maybe it's just an opinion against another, a taste issue... I just thought there was too much of it. And too much of lot of other stuff too. Things that bored me. Sure there was lots of good things too, and no reason people shouldn't check it out if they haven't.

Like, take Witcher 1 (the Gog's Enhanced Edition) - I completely loved it. Wouldn't have played it through if it was just okay, and the optional sex scenes - some of them which didn't add anything else than a picture to the in-game lore book - would have made me feel cheated, if the rest of the game sucked. It's the content that matters. I even went and checked out what will happen if I'd ask the prostitutes to sleep with Geralt, because I thought there might be some funny suprises in store... don't want to spoil it to anyone though, so I'll zip it! :p

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with nudity, or think it's immoral either. I actually completely agree with you! :)
I was responding more to itchy01ca01's comment on GoT's nudity providing a lot of story/info.

I think nudity and sex can be effective, or add to the experience in the right context, but in GoT's case, I think it's a bit gratuitous for no good reason. Those story segments could be done just as well without the use of sex imo.

(for the record, I do actually like Game of Thrones. The books more so than the show)

Just reading the topic from the top of the page and saw this I missed before. :)

It all depends about which Witcher books you are talking about. There are short stories (Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish are short story collections) and then there is "The Witcher Saga". The Witcher Saga is pretty dark. Short stories are light and fun. Although probably not for everyone.

TLDR: There are two series of Witcher books that differ a lot.

Citing Wikipedia: Anyways, not everything was officialy translated to English. And what it was, people sometimes complain the translations were not that good. So, I guess it might be harder to enjoy. At least Martin is a native english speaker so nothing gets lost in the translation.

Yeah, well put! :)
The "no good reason" is what bothered me too. If I was into porn or strip shows, there are places where it is available. But I didn't watch GoT for that, I swear! :)
Somehow it might have been alright, if there had been lots of full-on completely naked men in there, it'd be just so far out that I'd stop minding it (maybe!) :p

i´m hearing (audiobook) blood of elves, i will look into the other ones as well.

i´m feeling that since the witcher is about Ciri and Geralt. maybe is a "friendly" start for beginners. does not have so many families and names like GOT.

Oh well that's good to know...I might read the saga then because i only read the last wish not knowing it was different from the rest of the books.

Witcher, but i like Game of Thrones tv show, not the game.

+1 really enjoyed that, cheers! :)

No families, some names, but the book itself is dark in its own regard. The relation between Ciri and Geralt in the first book is kinda short as they get separated pretty fast. But I don't want to spoil it to you. Although taking in account several days passed you probably already found out about that. :)

I don't say you are necessarily going to like it, but give it a chance. It's different in tone. ;)