Ok, we don't talk about TV shows very often and I'm not a HUGE TV fan and I don't get premium channels.
But can I just say, after watching the first season of HBO's True Blood that I am now a committed fan? That after watching the DVD's twice, I bought the series of books that the show is based on and am deliberately reading rather than sewing?
Go Vampire Bill. Yum!
If you don't get HBO, rent the DVD's.
Cindy
Oh yeah!! I really like this show too. It was a bit tricky jumping in at the middle of the series but a friend had explained the background so I wasn't completely lost.
Are the books as good as the show?? I was planning on getting them....will I get hooked and end up reading instead of doing the bazillion other things that need doing around here??
Allison
I have been reading the books since before the show. I have seen the first five episodes of the show, kiri's mum taped them for us. I was a bit startled by what they were doing with some of the characters, and by some of the subplots that had nothing to do with the books. I do understand that TV and books are not the same, but I do hope that they do not go further out into left field, lest they abandon some of the things that made the characters real in the first place.
NightMist >teleflora wrote:
i watch it too...and their doing alot of improv with the characters and plot...they did that with Harry Potter too...shame..
amy in CNY
I've devoured 3 of the books since Friday. I think I like the books better since they are told from Sookie's perspective. I loved the Tara character in the series. Totally different in the book.
I had never heard of the books before, but I enjoy the writing and am going to look for the author's other series.
Cindy
Well, Barbara, I don't watch that show .... no HBO and I don't like Vampires. BUT, I read the Temperance Brennan books by Kathy Reich for several years before the Television show 'Bones' was produced. It took me nearly the whole first season to separate the two entities in my mind. Now I can enjoy the show one day and read one of the books another day, and not get confused. They are different, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. (Besides, the show has David Boreanz!) PAT in VA
I not only don't do HBO, I don't do cable or braodcast. Which really sent a surveyer onto a tizzy the other day. We used to watch PBS, but that stupid Trinity Broadcasting set up a repeater that splatters all up and down the band, so without a solid serious antenna it was impossible.
Isn't it something how some TV shows will hang tight to the book and some will take great liberties? We got the first season of Dexter for Christmas, and that seemed pretty close so far as I have read at this point.
I take the point though. I am very fond of Blade Runner, and it has very little to do with the book beyond some names and a bit of fantasy tech.
I am very fond of David Boreanz at this moment, because chance involving him got my dinner paid for last week. Kiri and I took DD out with some of her friends, it was regents week and they were done with their tests. They got to talking, and it was decided that whoever "saw him first" had dinner paid by everybody else. Being as I watched Rocketship 7 as a child, and being as his dad hosted it and was an immensely proud papa, to the point of showing baby David's hospial picture to all of us kiddies at home, I won. So four teenagers chipped in and fed me. (G) OK, so they fed me a hot caramel sundae on chocolate icecream with toasted pecans and toasted coconut (a geman chocolate sundae sort of), but still!
NightMist
I've now read the first 7 books in the series. I have the 8th ordered and the 9th preordered. I went to the bookstore tonight and bought the first two books in the Librarian series (I can't remember her name). I can't understand how come I've never read anything Charleane Harris has written.
I am in Sookie/vampire overload.
This explains the occasional panther sightings in my little neck of the back country. Never seen a tiger though.
Cindy
Howdy!
Been read>
Thank you, Sandy. I"m not wild about Anna Paquin either. I do like Bill! Quinn will be interesting if we ever get to that point.
I just really enjoy her writing. I'm loving the Aurora Teagarden mysteries. I see from her website that she sometimes writes Sookie stories for magazines and anthologies. Which is why I kept trying to figure out how I missed the queen of Louisiana's visit to tell her that her cousin had died. I thought I was missing a book! They should really be numbered. I like the artwork too.
Thanks for the tips about the other vampire stories. I read lots of Anne Rice, but it was soooo heavy sometimes. I loved her Mayfair witch books too.
I've discovered reading again!
Cindy
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