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Oh, lovely. I know JB describes her (Karrin) as a blonde. for some reason, I picture her as a brunette. Maybe because the tv show had a brunette. Valerie Cruz . Thanks for sharing. Last edited by Spacechik; 07-13-2012 at 11:47 AM. Reason: clarity |
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Yeah, I can not reconcile the picture in my head with the picture posted above. I too think its because she looks closer (to me) like the actress from the show.....even though Butcher mentions her as a "petite blonde" at least once in every book.
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The book series detective, Karrin Murphy is petite, blond, rides a motorcycle and kicks ass! The TV police detective, Connie Murphy though she's an interesting and mostly likeable character is a very different individual, lacking many of the attributes of Karrin Murphy. If you look closely at the TV series characters individually you should notice that each of them are much different than the characters that Jim describes in the books. The above is my personal opinion. Last edited by alansplace; 07-14-2012 at 01:20 AM. Reason: typo |
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In my case I think its because I saw the tv show first....Years before I knew the novels even existed.
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Me too, but the book descriptions of Murphy pushed the TV version right out of my head. Aside from occasionally seeing Harry as the lead from TV (but mostly not) the show really hasn't colored how I see the novels.
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So I searched for and found the books. I discovered early on in my reading that none of the TV episodes (with the exception of episode 8) were even remotely connected to the story lines of the book series. Just a plot point here and there and a secondary character and/or character name here and there. Besides that, Jim's descriptions of the major characters was so vivid and compelling that I was not able to correlate these characters with the characters in the TV series. The TV series was really well done and I still like it a lot, but it was just marginally related to the series of novels. The above is my personal opinion. |
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oddly enough, I found the books first, then started buying the audiobooks via the website. I think I saw some 5 minutes of the one of episode of the TV series before turning it off. One look at Bob was all it took. I suppose if I hadn't read the books first, I would have had the negative reaction. Perhaps I'll try the TV series again at some point.
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I'd read all the Dresden books that were available before watching the first episode of the TV series (which is all I've ever watched).
Aside from both being about a wizard named Harry Dresden who lives in Chicago, there's pretty much nothing in common between them. |
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