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Okay, this isn't a perfectly apt analogy, but that's exactly how I feel about TrueBlood... not that Charlaine Harris is like Tolkien in bloated writing, but that her writing is pedestrian and has a weird emotional tone to it -- and she is deaf, dumb, and blind to a lot of her own chosen setting... well, there is POSSIBLY something about that part* -- I prefer the TV show infinitely; it has added Southern Gothic flavor, it has cast excellent actors who are also good to look at, it has made the most out of popular imaginings of bayou Louisiana, and the FX are great.

*okay, I have to admit... I think the stories are set originally in a mythical parish that is in North Central Louisiana. North Central Louisiana is far, far from the bayous. It might as well be Arkansas, really, and it is flat and fairly ugly, and smells of pulp processing mills. So the TV show is taking a lot of license. On the other hand, naming the imaginary parish RENARD parish makes it seem like it ought to be in the French-influenced part of LA, anyway... and now, look how geeky I have revealed myself to be! I am so thankful this is on Netflix, since I don't have cable.

PS: I wish I had a good sexy vampire icon. With nothing to do with the abomination that is Twilight.