I love The Vampire Diaries. Its possibly my favorite show ever, besides Friends. When the show ended earlier this year, I cried. Actual tears. I had always known the series was based off of books, but I never read them, which is weird for me because I always read the books first, for anything. But I never thought to read them, being too obsessed with the show. I had also heard there were some MAJOR differences between the show and the books, but I found the differences quite interesting, so I decide to give the first book a try. The books still harbor the main idea as the show- In a small town (which is called Mystic Falls on the show, but is Fell's Church in the books) a girl named Elena Gilbert, who just lost her parents in a tragic car accident, falls for a mysterious new guy who shows up at her school, called Stefan. She later finds out that he is a vampire (surprise!). Then his equally handsome but evil brother, Damon, who is also a vampire, shows up and all kinds of supernatural chaos (and a confusing love triangle) ensues. Of course there's tons more to the story than that- witches, werewolfs, blah blah, you get the idea. The first book in the series, The Awakening, was published in 1991;The books were written by L.J. Smith, (mostly; a few later books in the series were ghost written) who is a very descriptive writer. Some times I would be reading and something would happen or someone would call me and I'd feel like I had just come back into reality or woken up from a dream. I found that the books are so different they are almost an alternate turn of events to how the series plays out, so I enjoyed it a lot. But which one did I like better? I actually think I like them both equally, because they are pretty similar and both very entertaining. If you want to watch the show for yourself (which I strongly recommend you do), all eight seasons are on Netflix. As for information on the books: >>>>>>>>>>>>>
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I'll try my hardest not to make this a rant. As I've stated before, The Beautiful Creatures series by Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia are currently my favorite books. When I finished the series back in eighth grade , I wished I could experience the books all over again-and then I heard about the movie. So I went to the library and eagerly rented it. I thought it would be great, but when I watched it I realized how wrong I was. One thing you should know about me before I get into this is that I have a very strong imagination, especially when it comes to picturing books in my head. I have a certain way that each character looks when I read a book. It makes it fun, almost like a movie playing out in your head. But this movie was nothing like the one in my head. In fact, it completely ruined the picture I had spent years reading about and building upon. For starters, there was the obvious and most common problem- the casting was off. None of the characters looked even close to how they were described in the book. This is a trend in movie adaptations of popular books that always seems to upset fans of the original work. I expected it just from looking at the cover of the DVD. Aside from that, the movie completely omitted certain characters and events- no, even worse, they meshed two completely different characters into one character. That was what really irked me. Also, it should've been longer. In the books, it takes the two main characters, Ethan and Lena, a while to really start interacting and to eventually fall for each other. In the movie, all of the events felt so rushed, it was like they fell in love in a day or something, which was so unrealistic. I could go on and on about everything that made this movie extremely bland and a waste of my time, but I think you get the idea, so I'll just let you off with a warning: Watch this movie at your own risk. Sure it looks interesting, but once you get into it and realize just how cringey it is, you'll want to turn it off halfway through and go to bed, like I did. If this review only made you want to see the movie more, it was recently added to Netflix, so have at it ; but don't say I didn't warn you. |
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