Sookie Stackhouse/Charlaine Harris

Just thought I would post that Season 2 of True Blood is set to start on June 14th. I don't know about anyone else but I am super stoked lol.

I watched the first season before I got into Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series and became and instant fan! Then for christmas I got the whole series and spent christmas break reading the whole damn thing lol.

So for all of you true blood fans, june couldn't come any sooner LOL

WTG! That's awesome news.. can't wait.. I loved the first series.

how closely is the first season tied to the books? is it anything like Dexter, in which the first series pretty much followed and expanded upon the first book, or does it incorporate several books into the story arc, or does the series use the characters and setting for new stories?

I've yet to see season one and I want to make sure I've read the relevant books before starting on it.

it pretty much sticks to the first book.. so it will be interesting if they do the same for the second series

thanks

I also am a huge True Blood fan. I have taped the series and re-watched a few times now. I also read the Sookie books after I watched the first season. I have enjoyed them and may read them again but I liked the series so much better. The plot and characters are much more complex. The books are fun though and I cant wait for the next book to come out.

Yeah the series was really fun, the last book of the Sookie Stackhouse series kinda of lost the quirky funny moments the other books had.

Show was what got me hooked as well, but most of the series was such an enjoyable read that it exceeded expectations. Harris has a way of creating excellent female protagonists, quirky situations, and good suspense.

I picked up her stand-alone "A Secret Rage" as well - while it's still low-brow chick lit, whatever you want to call it, it had a profound way of discussing women and violence. Harris is definitely not a one-trick pony.

By the way: am I the only one that, after finishing the books, went back to the TV series with a far more critical look at what the producers had done with Sookie?

Her character ended up far more insecure, irrelevant, passive and just plain uninteresting in this version. Does TV has some kind of rule about female protagonists NEVER being interesting, or sexual without being sexualized?

Sheesh. Maybe it's just the actress, but I don't think so. Book Sookie is awesome. TV Sookie is... well. A lot of True Blood fans seem to think she's just this erratic bimbo that happens to be telepathic - watering her down to that must have taken some SERIOUS effort. Hope it gets better next season.