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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:46 pm
I have just finished reading all the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris and I was wondering if anyone else saw a huge amount of similarities in the characters with the Anita Blake Series?
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:49 pm
A few examples are:
Sookie Stackhouse = Anita Blake
Eric = Jean Claude
Alcide = Richard
Debbie = Raina
Sam = Jason
These are just a few, I will post more when I think of them.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:14 pm
i havnt heard of these books are they good? details is the set big?
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:41 pm
I really like these books. Sookie Stackhouse is the main character who is a telepath in a small Louisiana city. Vampires are "out" to the world, but weres aren't. Lots of action and adventure, love and complications occur. Really good series!
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:39 pm
All about Anita sorry sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:17 pm
I've read two of the Sookie books, could be three but my money is on two, and I like 'em.. just not as much as Blake.
Gimme were's over vamps everytime.
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:42 pm
I've read both series, and sure there are similarities, but honestly? I've also seen similar type characters in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evonovich and those books are no where in the ball park of supernatural.
I think the problem here is that most of these novels are fairly formulaic. I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just that to create tension, one must have certain forces in place to move a story along in an interesting manner.
When you throw in the supernatural as a main theme for a book, you are going to find a lot of characters that seem similar to other books. It's just more noticable because you don't just identify a character by the hunk, the beotch, the hero... you identify them as the hunky vamp, the female were beotch, the female human hero.
Another factor is that the authors are all writing from a basic perception of what supernaturals are like. Movies and books and the internet have conditioned us all to expect certain things from supes. And as overblown as the Anne Rice books can be, they were a major influence on supernatural politics which has filtered into an awful lot of the modern alternate reality books.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:19 am
Narniakat A few examples are: Sookie Stackhouse = Anita Blake Eric = Jean Claude Alcide = Richard Debbie = Raina Sam = Jason These are just a few, I will post more when I think of them. plz jason = jason in this one more thananything. michah = sam
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Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:16 pm
Thre are similarities but I don't really think Sookie is like Anita but I will agree with the other characters. I've read most of the Sookie Stackhouse books, they are really good but I prefer Anita Blake.
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:50 am
Oh, I also love the Sookie books! I never really thought about similarities other than the Vampires being 'out'.
Although the whole, she hates Eric at the beginning of the series thing, well that is a bit how Anita was with Jean Claude huh? Depending how much of Sookie you've read, she doesn't always hate Eric either.
But then who's Bill? lol. I can sort of see Micah there, just because both guys got the girl so quickly.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:13 am
Killing Dance and before, I liked Anita Better. But if Anita continues being a whore and sleeping withanyone that stands still long enough, I think I may have to change my opinion. It all hangs on what Hamilton does with these next few, and if Sookie mantains somewhat of a moral system. Honestly, how long has it been since Anita actually solved something? Or worked?
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:48 pm
I don't think there is really any comparison between the two series.
Charlaine Harris is a very talented writer but she is a light-hearted writer. Sookie is a sweet girl who isn't naive but at the same time isn't experienced. She's had some hard knocks but for the most part she's the anti-thesis of Anita.
I think the biggest similarity though is the need for the vampires to build their power base, which is exactly what Jean-Claude did with Anita and that Eric still wants to do with Sookie.
I honestly think that Eric loves Sookie whereas I don't believe Jean-Claude feels so strongly about Anita, I just never feel it from him.
Here's a funny comparison though ... Bubba and Damian. smile They both adore Sookie/Anita and will do anything for them.
I used to think that in this comparison I'd still choose LKH over Charlaine Harris but I'm slowly moving toward appreciating Charlaine's clarity of story and writing and less interest in LKH's confused mind. smile
I love them both though and will buy everything they produce but lately I like Charlaine a lot more. Perhaps it's because I just finished reading 'Grave Surprise' and thought it wonderful, whereas 'Hard Candy' by LKH is just beyond strange.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:14 pm
I was reading another post and I just thought of this;
Jason (from Anita) = Jason (Sookie's brother)!
haha. Not only do they have the same name, they're both womanizers who really just want to fall in love. whee
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:27 pm
hottopic1989 Narniakat A few examples are: Sookie Stackhouse = Anita Blake Eric = Jean Claude Alcide = Richard Debbie = Raina Sam = Jason These are just a few, I will post more when I think of them. plz jason = jason in this one more thananything. michah = sam I couldn't agree more, except for one thing... Bill would be my Richard in this case. He's the original boyfriend that you begin to hate as the series progresses. but i totally agree on the Jason = Jason and Micah = Sam. There are some scary similarities, but Anita has experience in detective work and kicks a**. Hamilton and Harris both know each other by the way, they're not friends i think, but they read each other's novels...
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