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Finished reading "dead until dark" by Charlaine Harris(God it free at Comicon). Started reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
So which to do you think will be more entertaining? The tv series "trueblood" or the movie "twilight"? This message has been edited. Last edited by: lilith42, |
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Smartest woman in the world. Member  |
You know, I've never seen the tv show, but I liked the Sookie Stackhouse series much better than I liked Twilight (maybe that series gets better over time?). I feel like Sookie's world is more fully developed, and she's a more compelling character.
Plus, I love the tru-blood ads. Those are a hoot. |
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The tv show comes out this fall for True blood.
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
haven't read the True Blood stuff...
*adds to list* but I have a feeling that the Twilight movie will suck. I'll see it, because I'm turning into a fangirl (why, God? why?), but I don't anticipate goodness and light. ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Twilight seems pretty good so far. That is if you like all the angsty new girl in school falling for the rebel in school but with a twist. I have only gotten in two chapters so who knows.
But I wanted to see if anyone else has read the rest of the series of either groups of books to see if it is worth buying the remaining of the series. |
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I don't know why, but it was addicting to me. like crack. I borrowed the first three and bought the fourth one the day it was released (only because I happened to see it at the airport, but still). Meyer's writing gets better, thank God, although she never gives up abusing certain words/phrases. the story will carry you along to the end, really, but it is fluff. fluffy, fluffy fun.
~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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i agree apathy, highly addictive series, not earth shatteringly good, but really good fluffy fun to read. i borrowed them all from the bookstore i work at, and i'm debating buying the set. they're fun to re-read.
i read one of the southern vampire books, but was not really hooked on the series. i saw an ad for true blood - the drink, not the show - and was reeaally interested, but forgot to go google it. now that i know, i'm looking about to see if i can find the pilot online... when did anna paquin grow up?? lookit me, i'm postin! wheee! |
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was not written by a man named "Cougar" Member  |
Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Sun put on hold indefinitely.
It really, really sucks that someone leaked it, but I read the 12 chapters that she posted, and wasn't disappointed. It's just too bad that they came out this way. ---------------- There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. "What does it mean?" I asked. "A pirate needs the site of the sea," he said, and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away. |
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Smalltown, that really does suck!
I am 140 pages short of finishing the first book, twilight and decided to see the preview of the film. The actors that are playing the other Cullen "siblings" just don't seem to look as I would expect them. From her book I expected more of the kind of Calvin Klien look of "model" rather than what ended up. These are supposed to be drop dead gorgeous model types, graceful, sleek and ethereal. |
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Definately loving the tru-blood! Alan Ball from Six Feet Under behind the steering wheel, hilarious characters, perfect use of setting as character a'la Faulkner, yummy!
"To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass." - Amiri Baraka |
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I've been watching True Blood, and I really like it so far. the biggest difference seems to be teh sexxorz, which is, y'know, why we like vampires, right? smexiness! it's pretty interesting, though, and, yes, the Faulknerian use of setting is really well-done.
so, yeah. Twilight: written by a Mormon True Blood: NOT written by a Mormon ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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Apathy, both stories are set in drastically different localities.
Hot and steamy vs cold and damp. |
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I had noticed that, yeah.
 ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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I luuuurv the TV series True Blood...I just watched the latest gittin-the-vampire-sex-on episode and am officially hooked. I've ordered the first two of the Souther Vampire Mysteries from my local library.
People who watch the show and have read the books: any drastic differences I should be braced for?  **** “Chives?†“Yes, m’lud?†“Is that Ms Ephemera hovering over the croquet lawn?†“Indeed m’lud. She’s marshalled all the haggle-dans. Missy-twigs and vale-nymphs from Claypole Woods. Apparently she intends to tear this house down and dance on the ruins.†“Well, Chives, you’d better start the car, what? And pack my tennis things too†--- Joe 3Heads |
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Smartest woman in the world. Member |
Hey, Alaura - I don't know if this is true of the TV show (which I haven't watched) but Sookie gets the crap kicked out of her on a regular basis in the novels. They're excellent books, yes, but you might want to leave a good long space between books because they are emotionally exhausting what with the telepathy and the crap-kicky-outing.
Also, don't start one if you have somewhere to be in the next 24 hours until you've finished it. |
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Jocelyn, you want an emotionally exhausting book...read Blindness! I'm going to wait awhile before getting into the sequil, "Seeing".(yes, this is a bit off topic...nothing to do with Vampires...but it's the rawness of when supposedly everyone is going blind and the degeneration of society in a few months that is fascinating..and draining).
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has been eaten by a grue. Member |
as long as we're off-topic...that was my response to Water for Elephants. felt like I'd gone through the ringer when I was done with that one.
~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation |
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I have Water for Elephants, thank you for the warning. I need to read some light stuff for awhile.
For those who read the first book for the True Blood series, do you remember Tara sleeping with Sam? Plus there are somethings that they divulged that did not come out until later in the book. I am not one of those people when things change, that I go crazy over the changes from book to film but was just curious what the rest of you remember from the book. |
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Smartest woman in the world. Member |
Oh, the series sounds like it's totally different from the TV show - Tara doesn't even show up until book two or three (it's a Big Deal how Sookie has no real friends in the first book). The series is very frustrating about introducing bit characters and then killing them off (a lot like a miniseries, come to think of it) so some of the people in the TV show aren't around in the first book, and some of the people that are in the TV show are killed off by book five.
Overall, if you're really digging the TV show, you might want to wait until you've let it fade from your mind a bit before you read the books. |
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I've finished book one.
Love. Bill. Yum. And yes, Sookie gets ambushed physically and/or emotionally in pretty much every episode of the TV series as she does in the books. Poor chicky. I thought Tara was an invention of Alan Ball, since there's not even a hint of her existence in Book One. She's one of my favorite things about True Blood. **** “Chives?†“Yes, m’lud?†“Is that Ms Ephemera hovering over the croquet lawn?†“Indeed m’lud. She’s marshalled all the haggle-dans. Missy-twigs and vale-nymphs from Claypole Woods. Apparently she intends to tear this house down and dance on the ruins.†“Well, Chives, you’d better start the car, what? And pack my tennis things too†--- Joe 3Heads |
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