meet cute on the subway during rush hour

Featuring two young professionals, male and female. 

Male: (getting up from his seat) Would you like to...? (gestures at empty seat)
Female: Oh, sure, thank you (sits down)
M: I'm reading that too, see? (shows her his iPhone display)
F: Oh! Yeah, cool (looks at her thick book)
M: I just started, I'm reading the first book.
F: Oh, really? This is the fifth book, I started the series after I finished watching the first season and I just started this book.
M: Me too!  I watched the series and I said I gotta read the series, if the show was this good.  Because the books are always better.
F: Yeah, that's true.  And, like, you really get to go inside the characters head, how they're thinking, even more than the show.  I don't know what part you're reading but--
M: I'm almost done.  After watching the first season I know what's going to happen but it's still cool to read it happening.  I want to be ahead of the curve, though.
F: Yeah, I know what you mean.  All the other books in the series are great.  Well, the fourth one is a little slow, but it builds up to the payoff at the end of the book.
M: Ah, cool.  That's the fifth book?  I thought it was a trilogy...
F: I think he was going to make it a trilogy, but then he wrote more.  I think there's supposed to be seven books in the series now--
M: Seven!
F: Yeah, and this is the latest one that came out.
M:  So what are you going to do when you finish reading that?
F: I don't know...I'm going to have to wait around to find out what happens next.  I guess I'll just reread the series from the beginning.
M: Cool.  Well, I'll let you get back to your book.
F: Thanks,  you too.  I think you'll really like it.
M: Yeah.
The two resume reading their respective texts.
F: This is my stop.  Thanks again for the seat, it was nice talking--
M: Yeah, of course, no problem. 
She smiles at him, then leaves.


If this were a movie script, the two would have exchanged numbers.  But this conversation happened in real life, right next to me a few days ago, and it went more or less the way it's written above.  I'd heard about Game of Thrones prior to this time; this conversation made me want to read the series.

I've never heard people on the subway discuss a book series before.