Chaotic Dumbass — I love when I read a book *after* seeing an...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

I love when I read a book *after* seeing an adaptation and it gives me a new appreciation for the adaptation. Season one of The Expanse follows the plot and major scenes of Leviathan Wakes remarkably closely, and the characters are exactly the same. I’m replaying scenes from the show in my mind. Conversations that weren’t in the show still read in the actors’ voices. I swear I recognized some dialogue. And the changes I did notice (such as where Miller finds Julie Mao in the end, and how the dead man’s switch comes in) made complete sense in smoothing over the transition from page to screen. Fuck Amazon and all that, but the writers and showrunnners of that show should be lauded for their attention and dedication to the source material.

I’m interested to see how that holds up in the rest of the series. I know that the actor playing Alex Kamal left the show for reasons unrelated to the character’s original arc, and I think I know that the books go on longer than the show, so I have a feeling eventually the two will split, but I’m hoping to meet a few more favorite characters before that happens :)

(other books I’ve read this year)

mine personal the expanse leviathan wakes my book log <<<I said in another post I would make a point of talking about books I read on here needed a tag for that. might change if I think of something better lol I put holds on the next two in the series at the library it’s probably too much to hope that the next one is on hand at my branch and will be ready for pickup Saturday morning before work but I’m crossing my fingers for it I’m gonna be honest I understand less of the belter dialect than I was hoping for in the show it had a lot of what probably was French creole? and I took French for a long time so I could sometimes recognize sort of the root of enough words to pick it out which was very fun for me but there’s more going on in the book. more languages mixed in and also idioms and stuff and also less of it spoken that we see so fewer chances for me to happen to decide something and I’m not actually very good at languages lol so it’s not like I’m going to pick it up but it’s fun to pretend 2023 reading list

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