#Caroline kepnes

[adaptationsdaily]

Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg YOU (2018 - PRESENT) 3.02 - 3.06 - 3.08

[melodysbookhaven]

“Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.”

Caroline Kepnes, You

[shy-girl04]

The problem with books is that they end.

Caroline Kepnes

[slimmwrites]

SPOILERS

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I KNEW Joe's relationship with Rhys was all in his head when erotomania and Pheobe's stalker came up, but the end of episode 7 still had me looking like...

...because I did not expect to see Joe pull another cage-in-the-basement card. The man is NEVER getting a redemption arc😭😭😭

[torturedcoveydepartment]

WHOEVEr runs the ’you netflix’ account might just be my soulmate

[kinhelpcares]

☕️|☕️|☕️

📖|📖|📖

🤎|🤎|🤎 Self indulgent Guinevere Beck stimboard

No f/o tags! No thirsting after me! It makes me very uncomfortable!

[carmillathevampire]

🖤Yandere/Stalker/Kidnapper books🖤

[cultofcreatures]

Vaporwave Joe Goldberg. Tap for better quality.

2024

Inspired by “Are We Having a Party” from the Neon Demon soundtrack.

Commissions are open.

[rheaamma]

[therine-watches]

You: a Netflix Show & Book Comparison

The failure of a faithful film/book adaptation often runs in the anatomy of its chosen media, and while the Netflix series You, starring Penn Badgley, strays quite far from its original source, it’s an excellent example of a faithful adaptation. 

At its core, both Netflix’s show and Caroline Kepnes’ 2014 book You run in the same vein of stories: Joe Goldberg and his very-normal response to an obsessive crush. However, the similarity pretty much ends there, and each story takes an equally enthralling - albeit different - road. 

(This post is solely focused on the first book - and first season - of You!) 

Here are the main differences:

1. Book-You is much darker and sinister.

While the show is also narrated by Joe Goldberg, book-Joe dives deeper into his darker and creepier nature. Each page is crawled with his growing paranoia and attempts to justify himself, often missing large marks of redeeming qualities that show-Joe easily exudes along his charm. 

2. Joe Goldberg is a different character.

While both the story is a deep character study dive of a killer, the characters are simply written differently. While show-Joe is witty, charming, funny, and nice to kids, book-Joe is blunt, creepy, and unlikeable, not to mention lacking Penn Badgley’s charm and screen presence. Simply said, show-Joe is who book-Joe thinks he is; show-Joe is written to be altered into an anti-hero rather than a pure villain. 

3. The language, justification, and motivation.

While both characters commit the same nature of crimes, it is the attitude and justification that primarily separates the two Joe Goldbergs: while show-Joe is calculative and runs in the justification “for the better good” and is nice to kids, book-Joe expresses misogynistic language and impulsive behaviors. 

In addition to the main differences, here are the minor differences:

1. Paco does not exist. (Hence elaborating on the Point 1 that show-Joe is a difficult character to villainize because he’s so nice to kids!). 

2. Beck isn’t a broke student and there’s no creepy professor. 

3. Peach Salinger isn’t as suspicious of Joe. 

4. Peach dies differently (she’s thrown into the ocean) and Beck doesn’t dwell on her death as much as she does in the show. 

5. Joe never meets any of Beck’s friends; the hate runs similarly deep, but he only knows them through her hacked email conversation threads. 

6. Candace is dead; there’s a different girl named Amy Adam who later steals Joe’s rare book and is the reason why he goes to LA to kill her (surprise!). 

Both the book and show are exciting on their own; to sum it up the best, while the show is more plot-driven thus having a stronger reliance on audience tension, the book is a deeper and more serious dive into the complexity of Joe’s character as a villain. 

I would definitely recommend both the show and book; each is interesting for different purposes, and in the meantime, I definitely cannot wait for the release of Season 4. 

[will-is-silly]

I'm living off of menstrual cycle hormones right now and my two favourite people didn't give me the greatest response so now I'm very sad :(((

so instead, HI TUMBLR I FINALLY bought YOU by Caroline Kepnes EEEEEE I just finished the show today and I'm so fucking excited to read the book

I love watching and shows/movies because if they disappoint me I know the book will back me up

BUT AHHHHHHHH I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH and I just KNOW this book is gonna be amazing :)) like eeee

[curlymantis]

He makes me have a lot of feelings. Started reading the books recently also, already onto the second one.

[melodysbookhaven]

“The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.”

Caroline Kepnes, You

[meseszerelo]

"Ki lehet ismerni az embereket. Megmutatják, kik valójában. Csak oda kell figyelni rájuk."

Caroline Kepnes: Elrejtett testek

[slimmwrites]

This season of You is very much hitting all the marks of a great dark academia. It's got the college setting, references to literary works, elitist douchebags, drinking, drugs and the deaths crucial to the plot, anonymous texts with threatening auras, and the very important Broken Heart ™️

I'm obsessed!!😩

[hollyhockdxll]

you // caroline kepnes