Book Lovers, Tells Us Which TV Adaptations Were Actually Better Than The Source Material

As a book lover, there's nothing worse than a TV adaptation that absolutely butchers a story you love. Sometimes, however, the onscreen version is actually better than the book.

For example, IMO, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire is a pretty good book, but the AMC+ TV series updates and reimagines it in a way that's so captivating. I hated both Louis and Lestat in the book, but I love them both in the show.

And Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is quite a whacky book, but the 2016 BBC America show veered enough from the source material to make a solid series without being too absurd.

And I LOVED the 2011 Freeform series The Nine Lives of Chloe King, but when I tried to read the book series by Liz Braswell, I just couldn't get into it.

So, which TV show adaptations do you think are actually better than the books they're based on? Why? Share your thoughts in the comments, and they may be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post!