I know exactly what you mean. Jan seems to love both the books and the show; I avoid the books and when the show comes on I stay for the great (if earwormy) music and the nifty mechanical map, and then go into the kitchen.

When he gets to the final volume, I'll want to know how he ended it. If all this angst and suffering and bleakness has paid for an Awesomely Good Ending with peace and prosperity for all and magical unicorns emitting rainbows from various orifices, then maybe I'll consider starting from the beginning. But it won't.