Have you watched the new CW series, gossip girl?

dear nizzy, i have read all gossip girl novels...the best! have you also read the IT GIRL series by the same author. they were written later on by her and they are way better than gossip girl, i think. as far as gossip girl, hollywoood always has to change up from the book, which always makes me anxious before the tv shows come out based on a previous book, or book series. you are right about blair, she's a lot colder than the book series. also i had kinda wanted a serena that would be as ethereal a goddess, as the book portrayed her to be, almost like her beauty was nothing like seen on earth. when i first saw the actress that was portraying serena, i thought they'd made a b i g casting mistake, with her. she looked to me at least 25 years old for one thing and she was not that extraordinary looking as the book made out serena to be. but as the episdodes continued, she sort of grew on me, and i could see why they might have cast her as serena. she has some sort of a charisma thing going on. they perfectly cast jenny humphrey i thought though, and she actually looks like a teenager..not25.. jenny is the IT girl in the it girl series books by cecily von ziegesar who gets kicked out of her private girls school finally, and then gets accepted into a co-ed boarding school in upstate, new york. the author seems to have developed the characters, more fully, in the IT GIRL series. i love the actor who plays chuck bass, with his little british accent. and i love the shows format, all glossy,new age, current up-to-date modern. i did have a laugh when i saw how they portrayed jenny's dad as the..aging..rock star instead of the gross and unkempt communist poet of the book. even the humphreys apartment is a riot. all state-of-the art kitchen etc. but i'm sure that part of the contract between creator, von ziegesar and studio was that they didn't take too many creative liberties with the show or von ziegesar book series fans would be all bummed out, nice talking to ya, nizzy stanzi

i love to watch Gossip Girl too!! it's one of my favourite series. Never read the book before though.

Yeah I've watched that series and I've also read the books and the IT girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar too. I was kind of dissapointed when I watched it because it was nothing like the book. But we should have know that because everytime a book is taken like "Harry Potter" and turned into movies or shows it is always changed from the original. I'm still going to keep watching it to see how it goes along and what else they have changed. And the latest episode with Vanessa. What was up with that? Vanessa is supposed to be bald. I love the books and how they made me want to be part of that because it sounds like such fun. I wouldn't personally if that life really exists in lower Manhattan because I live in the Bronx but it sounds like an exciting life.

I haven't read Gossip Girl, but I was able to catch an episode of the TV series. I actually agree that Blair seemed like such a cold, heartless girl. I didn't think she was an innocent spoiled character like how you said she was in the book. Maybe I should try reading the book just to compare.

I read the book and saw the TV show and I was a bit disapointed by the pilot at first. But I'm still watching the series and, I used to think too that the character of Blair wasn't captured and that, you're right, she looked like a cold heartless girl. But as the episodes go on, if you watched the last one (epidose 8), blair look more "human" and she has feelings, we can ever see her cry. My opinion about the series is that it's getting better at every episode. I'm sooo looking forward to seeing the next episode !