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Okay I must admit I have and have read all of the sookie stackhouse books many many times love them and can't get enough I also have watched every show of all the seasons even have the last 3 on DVD love them also but for different reasons can you appreciate both seperatly or like hate one or the other?
When I watch True Blood, I don't expect a scene-by-scene reenactment of the books (which, to be fair, aren't great literature.) But, I really don't like how the show has turned everyone in the book into drug addicts and/or abusers and/or trailer trash. The books had a sense of warmth and humor and small-town community that's completely missing from True Blood. Sookie's more of an understandable, sympathetic character in the books, since we're in her head and know exactly what she's thinking and why she's doing things. On the show she can seem bratty and stupid. What the writers did to Calvin last season was just awful, and even Sam and Andy are complete messes. The writers did make Tara into a much more interesting character, but now it seems like they don't know what to do with her.
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If it just followed the book I wouldn't mess with the show. I like both the show and the books equally.
That being said, there are things I dislike. I don't like how they've handled the Hotshot characters. In the books they were more like isolated hillbilly people who had their own way of doing things, not just a bunch of meth freaks. I don't really like the treatment of Andy and Sam, although I guess with Sam it allows him to have a more complex character than the perpetual nice guy he is in the books.
I do like the way they are handling the witches so far this season. In the books they were more like comic book villains. I didn't like that they introduced the fairy stuff when they did, but I do like that [so far] they seem to be moving back from it a little. The fairy storyline is probably my least favorite part of the books, and I was really hoping the show would just not have it at all.
I have my quibbles with the TV show, but by and large I enjoy it.
I tried reading the books and couldn't even finished the first one. I made it about 3/4 of the way through the first one before giving up. Character development on the TV show was much better.
I have read all of the books except the most recent one (I wait for paperback). I absolutely love the book series, which is why I started watching the show in the first place. There are some things that I feel are so interesting that they should have been in the show, but then there are some things that I am glad they changed for the show. I love Lafayette in the show, so I'm glad that they didn't follow the original path for his character. All in all, I actually like the differences in the storyline. I think it makes it more interesting. Otherwise, I would already know what was going to happen in each episode.
I hate the fact that they take the books and make it into a show that is so different. Whats the point of that? Too p*ss fans off? Why buy the rights and all that when they could just write something similar but different? No expectations of following the books. No getting mad when they do something like the did with Hotshot. It would be so much easier on everyone and so even though I like both I feel like they are ripping off the books, disrespecting them, selling out and it makes me mad. Sort of complicated emotions there
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