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was a fan of Sookie Stackhouse and had read almost the latest two of Charlaine Harris's books about her before tuning in the True Blood TV series. I read Twilight before it absolutely was a movie, then read New Celestial satellite, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn in a mad reading binge before I'd seen an individual preview of the New Moon video.When it comes to The Vampire Diaries, though, I dove into watching the TV series while barely conscious of L. J. Smith's books. I knew nothing about Elena Gilbert or the Salvatore brothers before I tuned to for that premiere.I've finally gotten around to reading the first book in the series, The Awakening. Among my FaceBook friends warned me the books were not like the series. I was rather skeptical that; how different could it really end up being?, I wondered. My skepticism was lost. The book is very different.About TV, Elena has striking dark head of hair and brown eyes, as does her historical, vampire counterpart, Katherine. In the particular book, Elena and Catherine are blondes with lapis lazuli-blue eyes. The setting of the show is Mystic Falls in New England; the book is set within Fell's Church, in the South. TV Elena includes a teenage brother; book Elena has any four-year-old sister. TV Aunt Judith doesn't have a boyfriend; book Judith is engaged to a guy named Bob. Bonnie is different: African-American on TV, she's a little, white girl with curly red hair within the book. The character of Meredith didn't even help it become onto the screen.The biggest difference, though, has to be in Stefan and also Damon Salvatore. On TV, they were born and raised throughout Mystic Falls and became vampires within the Civil War era. Perhaps this was simply a bit of True Blood rivalry, though. In your books, the Salvatores are from Italy and far, much older. The acquired their supernatural powers in the Renaissance.I don't particularly like Elena Gilbert. She will be a silly, shallow, self-centered creature, the kind of stereotypically pretty, popular teenage young lady who makes real teenage girls rose with shame. The TV version of Elena may be the same way, but the book will take the stereotype a wee bit further by making her a Southern woman. Elena Gilbert is actually the vacuous ice princess Scarlett O'Hara (who had been actually quite intelligent, but played dumb to attract boys) was pretending being. Compared to Elena, Scarlett is a new Jimmy Carter-esque humanitarian. Much ado have been made about Bella Swan's helpless, self-destructive habits in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, but Elena could wear that crown just as easily.Nor is L. J. Smith's writing style a really literary one. She can be forgiven with this, perhaps, because she's writing for a little daughter adult audience. The easy-breezy, fashion-mag tone with the book is ill-suited to its dark subject matter. It's like Elena mistakenly fell off the cover of Teen Vogue and in to a pulp horror novel. For readers with an increase of sophisticated tastes, this will hardly accomplish.Still, there's something intriguing about the storyline that keeps me from wanting to quit on this entire series.