Seriously thinking of picking up the book 'the consultant' is based on.

I read The Expanse books, but not because I liked the show. I watched Season 1 and I liked some of the ideas in it, I found the execution to be… not great? I didn’t continue. I know a lot of people enjoyed it but it just wasn’t for me. Anyway, a few years later I finally started reading the first book and ended up reading the whole series.

EDIT: I will consider trying the show again! I haven’t given up on it. 😀

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I read 11/22/63, A Game of Thrones, Turn of the Screw (The Haunting of Bly Manor), and Daisy Jones & the Six when I learned they were going to be turned into shows, but I read the books before the shows premiered.

I think the only book I've read after watching the TV adaptation is The Haunting of Hill House.

All other adaptations I've watched I had already read the books before I knew they were being turned into a TV show or I haven't read the books at all.

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Btw, despite the Iron Fist show being terrible, I highly recommend the Immortal Iron Fist by Ed Brubaker. Danny Rand will always be one of my favourite Marvel characters thanks to that run of comics.

Yeah, it's definitely YA but it's the best YA I've encountered in recent memory.

Thanks that’s good to know.

Basically all of Attack on Titan. Shinzo wo Sasageyo could make me march to certain death

Slow Horses sounds interesting. I'll give it a try if I ever get Apple TV.

House of the Dragon

Fire and Blood is better and cutting out Aegon I - Jeaherys I story makes me sad.

I was going to say Lockwood and Co. too! I’ve never been big on YA fiction, but how the show was presented, and considering it’s a finished series with a reasonable amount of books, I’ve had the boxset sitting in my cart ever since the first episode ended.

I know what you mean lol. Just FYI, the second series deviates more from the books than the first did.

The new Interview with the Vampire, and it has been extremely helpful to do so. I think it provides a lot of needed context for how they are setting up the story and there are a lot of little details and moments of characterization that make extra sense with knowledge of the novels. I think S1 might even come across very differently to someone with no knowledge of the novels at all.

Netflix Daredevil inspired me to start reading some of the important Daredevil comics, which inspired me to start reading comics in general.

> Still prefer the series, though.

...what? Do you simply dislike books, or why would you prefer the show?

IMO the books are so much better, it's not even close.

Longmire

I read all the Slow Horses books pretty much as soon as the first series finished. I’ve struggled to watch the second series to be honest as the books were great and while the series sticks close it’s almost redundant.

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The Winds of War mini series got me to read The Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

I watched the first 2 episodes of The Expanse assuming it was standard, low budget off-brand Canadian produced sci-fi a-la Andromeda, Killjoys, Orphan Black, etc.

Realized I was wrong, and did some research on the property. Stopped watching after those 2 and consumed the available entries in the book series before going back to the show. Definitely in my top 5 sci-fi shows of all time and the books expand and elaborate on the world and the characters beautifully.

Shadow and Bone led me to read Six of Crows, which is the prequel to the books the show is based on.

Binged the first season of Game of Thrones and then read all five books over the next three weeks.

Still waiting for Winds.

GoT, quite simply. Still prefer the series, though.