# True Blood returns June 13th. Have you read "Club Dead" yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814 "2010-03-18T00:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/1 "2010-03-18T00:00:11Z")
In case anyone missed it, HBO announced the season three primere date this week: June 13th. That gives people plenty of time to read the third book, **Club Dead** , if you’re so inclined. Feel free to speculate about season three in this thread, but put any actual spoilers - including casting ones - in spoiler boxes, please. Ditto for book spoilers too, given some people do want to be surprised. And in that vein, I’ll post something spoiler-y in the next post so it doesn’t come through on mouseover. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/2 "2010-03-18T00:03:33Z")
Right now, before season three begins, I’d like to predict what the very last scene in the finale will be this season. [spoiler]Given that season one ended with the first chapter of book two, and season two end with a scene kind of sort of drawn from an early chapter in book three, I predict that the last scene will be: Sookie driving home at night in time to see a mostly naked vampire that I’m not naming now wandering down the road.[/spoiler] I’m thinking odds are at least 95% that I hit the mark 😃 ---
**Author:** ![poornormajeane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@poornormajeane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poornormajeane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/3 "2010-03-18T05:27:47Z")
I’m glad I didn’t read your spoiler! I’ve only read the first book, because honestly I want everything in the show to be a surprise. Do you feel that reading the books have changed how much you enjoy the show signficiantly either way? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/4 "2010-03-18T05:40:35Z")
It’s departed a bit from the book already. No sense in me making any guesses. I still haven’t read the 9th book and, I guess she’s due for the 10th book this May. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/5 "2010-03-18T11:10:09Z")
> [@poornormajeane](#): > > Do you feel that reading the books have changed how much you enjoy the show signficiantly either way? I enjoy seeing what’s been kept the same as the book, and what they’ve changed, so yes. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/6 "2010-05-04T00:17:55Z")
So…anyone pick the book up yet? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/7 "2011-03-11T21:13:59Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Right now, before season three begins, I’d like to predict what the very last scene in the finale will be this season. > > [spoiler]Given that season one ended with the first chapter of book two, and season two end with a scene kind of sort of drawn from an early chapter in book three, I predict that the last scene will be: > > Sookie driving home at night in time to see a mostly naked vampire that I’m not naming now wandering down the road.[/spoiler] > > I’m thinking odds are at least 95% that I hit the mark 😃 Well, everyone knows that I was wrong by now ☹ But [that scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sys-Wn3nlU) IS in this new preview for season 4…so I was off by an episode. Your next reading assignment is “Dead To The World.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/8 "2011-03-11T22:51:31Z")
Oh man, zombie thread. Maybe title should be changed now so people don’t think the NEXT season starts the UPCOMING June 13th? ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/9 "2011-03-11T23:06:10Z")
Yeah, I got excited, then disappointed when I saw it was a zombie. Then excited when I saw **elfkin477** ’s post, then disappointed all over again at the word “shirtless.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-returns-june-13th-have-you-read-club-dead-yet/532814/10 "2011-03-11T23:27:56Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Oh man, zombie thread. Maybe title should be changed now so people don’t think the NEXT season starts the UPCOMING June 13th? Season 4 is supposed to start June 12th according to everything I’ve read, so people won’t be badly lead astray.