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panther-jewel said:
Books and TV show are so different that it is not possible for us to tell if you like them or not. You have to test for yourself, because the whole story is completely different, many characters from the books aren't in the show and the other way around, - and when they are in both, they very often vary enormously -, and even the supernatural rules are different. But to help you with your decision: It takes about 2/3 of the first book until Damon really arrives in the story (and there is nothing special about the story before that, although I personally like the Katherine-and-Stefan-scenes). But the four original books are short and you get quickly through everything, especially because something is always happening (whenever one problem is solved, the next already comes up, not like in the show, where the basic situation often stays for a long while and plans don't work out to set the story back to how it was). The "Return"-books deal with different dimensions, incredible powers and strange beings, what I myself like because I usually am more into High Fantasy than Urban Fantasy. The whole story anyway is totally different so that the show gives away nothing about what happens in the books, what keeps reading exciting. The real problem is that you either have to live without an end to the story or continue with the ghostwriter's books - what is like paying for fan fiction (I stopped after "The Return: Midnight", so that I can't tell you anything about the books after that).
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