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Really glad Amazon picked this show up. I haven't watched season three yet, but book three/four is around when The Expanse really starts getting crazy and awesome. The first couple of books are a lot of set-up for the real fireworks.

I know it’s not the “what are you reading thread”, but do you recommend reading the books? I’ve considered picking them up, but haven’t found anyone who has actually read them.
 
I know it’s not the “what are you reading thread”, but do you recommend reading the books? I’ve considered picking them up, but haven’t found anyone who has actually read them.

Absolutely. I will caution you that the first two can be a bit of a slog, especially the early parts of the first book where you don't know who any of the people are. Might actually help if you watch the show, to be honest, since you'll already be familiar with most of them right from the get-go. I read the first few books as they came out, so the show wasn't around yet.

The books are great, though, and they're different enough from the show to set them apart. Each book has a couple to a handful of viewpoint characters, and each chapter is from the perspective of a single character, so you get a lot of extra info the show just can't provide. I'd also imagine that reading the books will give you a greater understanding of the world and the politics than the show can provide, kind of like how reading the Game of Thrones books makes the show a hell of a lot easier to follow since you already know all the character names that get tossed around.

Plus, you won't have to wait to know what happens next, at least to a certain extent. There are already six or seven books out, with another coming out in December. They've been dropping at a yearly rate and I don't expect that to change. I think there are either two or three still coming (I wanna say nine total, but would need to look it up to know for sure).
 
Absolutely. I will caution you that the first two can be a bit of a slog, especially the early parts of the first book where you don't know who any of the people are. Might actually help if you watch the show, to be honest, since you'll already be familiar with most of them right from the get-go. I read the first few books as they came out, so the show wasn't around yet.

The books are great, though, and they're different enough from the show to set them apart. Each book has a couple to a handful of viewpoint characters, and each chapter is from the perspective of a single character, so you get a lot of extra info the show just can't provide. I'd also imagine that reading the books will give you a greater understanding of the world and the politics than the show can provide, kind of like how reading the Game of Thrones books makes the show a hell of a lot easier to follow since you already know all the character names that get tossed around.

Plus, you won't have to wait to know what happens next, at least to a certain extent. There are already six or seven books out, with another coming out in December. They've been dropping at a yearly rate and I don't expect that to change. I think there are either two or three still coming (I wanna say nine total, but would need to look it up to know for sure).
I burned through all of the books in two months. Well written, innovative, and actually thoughtful in how it thinks about the technology impact.. not everything is believable, but the human behavior is spot on..
 
I know it’s not the “what are you reading thread”, but do you recommend reading the books? I’ve considered picking them up, but haven’t found anyone who has actually read them.
I jumped straight to book 4 cibola burn as it is what happens after season 3 and it's great
 
I've had Leviathan Wakes forever now. Think I'll start it soon and decide if I want to watch the show.
 
Man, I've been re-reading Stephen King's Under the Dome the past two weeks, and I just can't get over how dog shit the TV adaptation of the book was. The book basically takes place over the course of about a week, which means it would have been absolutely perfect for a mini-series. Instead, some asshole decided that it required 39 fucking episodes, which totally sabotaged one of the key aspects of the book, which was how quickly everything went to shit once the dome was in place.

Not only that, but the show didn't have the balls to portray most of the more intense scenes from the book. About the only thing going for it was that they cast Hank from Breaking Bad, and that was pretty perfect casting. Unfortunately, the show was so terrible it didn't matter.
 
Man, I've been re-reading Stephen King's Under the Dome the past two weeks, and I just can't get over how dog shit the TV adaptation of the book was. The book basically takes place over the course of about a week, which means it would have been absolutely perfect for a mini-series. Instead, some asshole decided that it required 39 fucking episodes, which totally sabotaged one of the key aspects of the book, which was how quickly everything went to shit once the dome was in place.

Not only that, but the show didn't have the balls to portray most of the more intense scenes from the book. About the only thing going for it was that they cast Hank from Breaking Bad, and that was pretty perfect casting. Unfortunately, the show was so terrible it didn't matter.

My daughter is a big reader, I always tell her "the book ruins the movie" while she says "the movie ruins the book". I keep planing to make t-shirts with both sayings for us to wear to the movies.
 
Man, I've been re-reading Stephen King's Under the Dome the past two weeks, and I just can't get over how dog shit the TV adaptation of the book was. The book basically takes place over the course of about a week, which means it would have been absolutely perfect for a mini-series. Instead, some asshole decided that it required 39 fucking episodes, which totally sabotaged one of the key aspects of the book, which was how quickly everything went to shit once the dome was in place.

Not only that, but the show didn't have the balls to portray most of the more intense scenes from the book. About the only thing going for it was that they cast Hank from Breaking Bad, and that was pretty perfect casting. Unfortunately, the show was so terrible it didn't matter.

I loved that book but then the ending. It's just one of the things that I come to expect with some of King's work. The Stand might be my favorite book ever...but that ending.
 
Better Call Saul was awesome last night.

That job interview scene was just so great. Odenkirk killed it.

Is it just me or are they playing with the lighting to hide that some actors are looking pretty old compared to the timeline of BB?
 
I loved that book but then the ending. It's just one of the things that I come to expect with some of King's work. The Stand might be my favorite book ever...but that ending.

Yeah, the ending wasn't great, but the rest of the book was awesome.

The show, though, is just an abomination.
 
I haven't watched in years, but is Dennis no longer on the show?
They teased for awhile that he wasn't going to be on this season but he's just missing from a few episodes
 

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