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I just closed a tab that was a page on Henry Jenkins' website. My friends suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I attempted to wade through that ponderous prose and just gave up and asked for a summary. Yet I kept the tab open...thinking I would read it? Idk.

Seriously, do I need to read the books? I am inclined to read them so I can negotiate the show from the proper perspective, but I hesitate as I was burnt on THAT OTHER VAMPIRE CRAPFEST TEEN SERIES. How bad are they, with Twilight as the gold standard?

Are there coms and junk yet? I just dumped all the ontds off my fl so I have room for new garbage coms I can scroll over.

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The books are pretty bad, but if you ignore Elena (she really is a lot better on the show) and pretend that they're intentionally bad they become a lot more entertaining. (The only other book series of hers that I've read is the Secret Circle and it's a lot better, but the love story is slightly more ridiculous. LJ Smith is hit and miss most of the time. Something must be sacrificed.)

I'd never even heard of these books before the show was being developed. This sort of literature was off my radar when I was the target market for it.

That being said, so far Stefan is hilariously obtuse in the bit of the first book I've managed so far.