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My friend tells me the books are much better, but I enjoyed the show a lot. I made the mistake of binging it though, definitely should've kept it to one episode a night.
I think both book and show are very similar. The show is quite a good adaptation, but it is an adaptation and you might get different things from the books. It's definitely worth a try and the books are very short and quick to read. For me, one thing I hate in the books are descriptions of fights. Those work much better in the show.
Solid summary! And yeah, the fight scene details are over the top. She had a great take on those with some of the details, I could really picture them, but the endless fine points, damn.
I just finished the first book along with the show. Honestly, the book is… fine? I would hope the writing improves with growth, because the book was weirdly monotonous and expository, partly by nature of the narrator, but that doesn’t make it less dry. So much was just stated explicitly and plainly, it made potentially exciting things feel boring. In the end it felt like a pretty good story told pretty poorly.
The books stay the same. I liked them. I read the first two in a single sitting on a (verry) long flight. They are popcorn books. Fun without too much substance. The action is told from his point of view which is pretty jaded, its supposed to be humorous, and yes its a very dry humor.
The humor is dry, yes, but so is the writing, which isn’t a good thing. It’s not nearly as immersive and evocative as it could be. I’m not recommending against them, just tempering expectations.