One of the joys in reviewing the new season of Showtime's Dexter has been in the preparation. I did just re-watched the previous season. I watched all the other seasons, read every interview I could find and even dove into a couple of reviews, both good and bad. I even got an advanced copy of the Dexter video game for the iPhone. But while watching that iconic opening of Dexter's mourning routine, I noticed the credit to Jeff Lindsay, the author of the first Dexter novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter on which the whole show is based. I picked it up in the library and even though I knew most of what happened from the show's first season, it was still a very enjoyable read. It was dark, funny, foreboding and every other adjective you would expect to hear from a review of a great mystery novel.
The best part is that even if you watch the show, you can still enjoy the books since they take very different paths that still provide plenty of good twists and turns. Any Dexter fan would enjoy them.
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10-13-2009 @ 9:45PM
Odimerus said...
The first two books are great, but the third book is very disappointing as it brings a supernatural element to it. I hear the 4th book which came out recently is a lot better than the 3rd, but I can't get myself to read it.
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10-14-2009 @ 3:11AM
DealplusCoupon said...
Agree with you.
10-14-2009 @ 3:29PM
izikavazo said...
Yeah, that third book really freaked me out.
10-13-2009 @ 10:20PM
MJL said...
"I did just re-watched the previous season."
Really dude?
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10-13-2009 @ 10:28PM
Panta said...
"But while watching that iconic opening of Dexter's mourning routine"
mourning? really dude?
wow.
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10-24-2009 @ 3:48PM
SenorWeird said...
The first Dexter book felt too abridged having watched the first season first.
The second Dexter book was okay, except for the subplot about Astor and Cody that carries on in the third book.
The third book is tripe and I couldn't finish it. I won't look at the fourth.
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10-13-2009 @ 11:14PM
YouFaceTheTick said...
The show is tremendous fun and very amusing. The books seem like a chucklehead with no imagination cobbled them together after dreaming up a great concept. Quite honestly, the creator of Dexter is good with a character concept but his skills as a writer... yikes. His version of Dexter is sloppy, lacking in wit, has no verve and really seems like just a schmo who happens to dig killing.
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10-14-2009 @ 7:58AM
helicine said...
The first two Dexter books are excellent, the second is actually my favorite. As others have stated, the third book was a letdown, but the fourth book is a return to the Dexter we know and love. So I recommend those turned off by the third book give the fourth a try, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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