Dexter season 3

[Xtermer]

Really good show, and this is extremely good news i would say. But i have a question of the books, it it the same stories as the series, or is it something else, at least some of them seem like season 1 from what i read on the site, have also seen them in bookstores, but not sure if i wanna start reading them if its the same series i have read before.

[Hybra]

Originally Posted by Xtermer

Really good show, and this is extremely good news i would say. But i have a question of the books, it it the same stories as the series, or is it something else, at least some of them seem like season 1 from what i read on the site, have also seen them in bookstores, but not sure if i wanna start reading them if its the same series i have read before.

Season 1 was based on the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter, while season 2 wasn't written by the original author. That's afaik. I think the book is better, because Dexter is alot more darker than in the TV show, and generally books are better. But the TV-show was not a disappointment at all!

[Xtermer]

Thx for the reply, will probably start reading those books then, but not sure if i should start with book 1 or 2. I agree that books>movies/series, but i also often find books where i have seen the movie boring at times, cause i kind of know what will happen, would you say this might happen with the Dexter books. Or is part of the storyline different so you don't feel that the complete story is know from before?

[ArenaFreak]

Originally Posted by Xtermer

Thx for the reply, will probably start reading those books then, but not sure if i should start with book 1 or 2. I agree that books>movies/series, but i also often find books where i have seen the movie boring at times, cause i kind of know what will happen, would you say this might happen with the Dexter books. Or is part of the storyline different so you don't feel that the complete story is know from before?

/wall of useless oppinions

Well I havnt read the books so I cant compare the serie to the books in this specifik case.
But hey, everyone got an oppinion on everything and well..
If its the same story, as i dont know. For me its realy intresting to read / see / listen to the same story but with a diffrent angel if its something i realy like.

If a serie / movie is based on a book, and if you like that movie / serie the book should be pretty kick ass, because when we watch movies that are based on books we miss out SO much from the actually story. I think the author of the Dexter books would if he watched the serie thonk that they missed so much out of the story he created, this is natural, the serie is awsome but you cant fill all the details and the whole story line to one serie / movie, you just cant. If the LOTR author would be alive and watch the 3 movies based on his work I doubt he would end up saying "Yupp they got it just perfect".

As I said it only my oppinions, i gonna order the books and hopefully they are better then the serie, and if that would be the case, same story or not im guessing that my "I just gonna read a chapter before i gonna go to bed" gonna end up with alot night with barley no sleep.
Its realy frustrating to say the least to see a bad movie that are based on a good book, but read a book based on a serie / movee you really like I would be damned if you would end upp dissapointed.


Bad gramma, english and whatever. Sorry for that!

[Hailetelassi]

Originally Posted by Mathabane

@ #7 - This will not happen, and I'll tell you why. The writer of the books (as Dexter was originally a novel before it become a tv show like say, the Bourne series ((also amazing)) writes for the TV show. Its like having Ian Flemming writing for James Bond movies, maybe thats a poor analogy, but you get the idea. The writer of the book is the writer of the tv series and so this should help prevent or at least alleviate the problems that plague excessive tv series like LOST.

1. Jeff Lindsey havent written a SINGLE page on any of the material for the tv show, James Manos JR wrote the first season and Daniel Cerone wrote the second season.

2. Therefore your whole argument is pretty much null and void.

3. The tv-adaptation varies ALOT from the source material, not so much in the first season but the second season has VERY few if any similarities to the novels written by Jeff Lindsey, and in my own humble opinion the novels are wastly superior to the tv-adaptation.