Killing Rituals in The Dexter Books vs. in The Series

Have you read the Dexter novels? If you've read Jeff Lindsay's Dexter novels, then you're in a position to share your perspectives on how artfully and successfully the series addresses the characters and events he created in the books. Which adaptations are a service to the storyline, which discredit it?

Here are defferences of Killing Rituals in the books and in the series

PLOT/CHARACTER ELEMENT
Killing Rituals


HOW THE BOOKS PORTRAY IT:

Dexter habitually wears a white silk mask, uses white trash bags, and even sometimes paints the walls white where he kills. Dexter uses a syringe (with Father Donovan -Darkly Dreaming Dexter chapter 1 -page 11) but seems quite fond of using 50 pound test fishing wire to garrotte his victims.


HOW THE SERIES PORTRAYS IT:
Dexter sometimes obscures his face though usually doesn't and he prefers black hefty bags
The virtual opposite of the book, Dexter relies primarily on the syringe to immobilize his victims.

WHICH IS BETTER?
Depends, Visually the series has a better approach, although Dexter not covering his face can lead to problems as covered in the series, it also makes sense to allow him to not obscure his "hunting" senses.
The book develops the dark side of Dexter more by showing how he loves to exercise his complete control over his victims when he is capturing them or getting them ready for the killing.

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