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1. There are quite a few differences.
   I’ve only read a couple of the books from a short number of years ago, but from what I remember, in the book version:

   – Jenny Humphrey is a brunette, with a small waist and large breasts for her age. She goes off to boarding school and stars in her own spinoff novels, called The It Girl.
   – Vanessa Abrahms has her head shaved, supposed to be like a rockstar of some sort?
   -Serena has an older brother, not a younger brother.

   I’m sure that the wikipedia articles on Gossip Girl show a much much greater list of differences.

   

   Riue
   January 17, 2013 at 8:15 pm
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2. hereeee;

   [edit] Central characters
   Blair Waldorf
   The series’ main character,[3] Blair Cornelia Waldorf is described as a 5’4″ and slender girl with brilliant blue eyes and a fox-like face. She is involved in extracurricular activities and is very intelligent and determined. For the first three books, she had long, chestnut hair, but chopped it into a pixie cut in Because I’m Worth It, before having it extended in Don’t You Forget About Me. She is a hopeless romantic who idolizes Audrey Hepburn and has a sensitive side that contrasts her tendency to be bitchy and controlling. She loves to pretend her life is a movie and watches Breakfast at Tiffany’s often. She is vain, although her friendship with it-girl Serena van der Woodsen causes her to be insecure at times. In the first book, when Serena returns, Blair is extremely reluctant to let her back into her life because it would mean giving up the “queen bee” position she held in Serena’s absence. She also fears losing Nate to Serena since they slept together before Serena left. Blair uses her charm, money and social status to get what she wants. Her father, once an uptight lawyer, now lives in a French chateau with his boyfriend, Giles, and their adopted Cambodian twins, Ping and Pong. He shares a love of shoes with Blair. He raised Blair under the impression that she deserves everything she wants. Her mother, Eleanor Waldorf-Rose, is a flaky society-hostess who married Cyrus Rose. Blair has a younger brother, Tyler; a stepbrother, Aaron, and a baby half-sister, Yale (named after the college Blair hoped to attend, making her a good luck charm). She has a turbulent relationship with Nate Archibald throughout the series, losing him to other girls several times, including Jenny Humphrey and Serena van der Woodsen. Blair now attends Yale University. She is portrayed by Leighton Meester in the TV series.
   Serena van der Woodsen
   Serena is described as 5’7″ with long, pale blond hair and huge, navy eyes. She is slim and ethereally beautiful, often described as “perfect” in the books. She is often told that she is not working to her full potential. She often gets Blair to cheat on her tests for her. Her personality is not always as well regarded as her physical attributes. Like her sometimes-best friend Blair Waldorf, she and her family are prominent in New York society. Serena dabbled in modeling before landing a starring role in Breakfast at Fred’s, a remake of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Serena has kept a steady string of admirers, including Nate Archibald, Dan Humphrey, Aaron Rose, and an entire a capella group at Yale. Despite the attention she receives from the opposite sex, Serena longs for true romance. She seeks this in Nate. She has fallen in love many times, but nothing has been too serious. Serena is much less demanding and uptight than Blair; however, she has a tendency to be self-centered. She gets what she wants with very little effort which causes a lot of people to dislike her. She is worshiped by freshman Jenny Humphrey who aspires to be just like her despite their physical differences. Serena is often criticized by her classmates who find her an excellent source of gossip, but resent her effortless good looks and her ability to get the attention of any male. Her parents rarely appear in the series. At the end of the book series, Serena decided to stay in New York City, instead of attending one of the many Ivy Leagues schools she got into, because she wanted to discover her life for herself. She is portrayed by Blake Lively in the TV series.
   Nate Archibald
   Nate is a wealthy, good-looking lacrosse player from St. Jude’s school for boys. He is described as having wavy golden brown hair and sparkling, emerald-green eyes. His mother is a French socialite and his father is a former Navy captain. He smokes lots of marijuana and was once caught and sent to rehab after buying a dimebag in the parks. He has dated a number of girls including Serena van der Woodsen, Jenny Humphrey, Georgina Sparks, L’Wren from L’Ecole and Tawny from the Hamptons, but his only serious relationship has been with his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Blair Waldorf. After stealing his lacrosse coach’s Viagra, he relied on Blair and her alumnus father’s connections to get accepted to Yale, although he eventually left to sail around the world with his father’s Navy mentor because he is unable to choose between Blair and Serena. He is portrayed by Chace Crawford in the TV series.
   Dan Humphrey
   Dan is a thin, sensitive, caffeine-addicted poet who often sees the darker side of things. Dan is a romantic whose imagination runs off wildly at the worst times. He is over-analytic and easily frustrated. He is romantically linked to Vanessa Abrams, who appears to be the love of his life, but he hasn’t always been the best boyfriend. Prior to his relationship with Vanessa, he spent two years in love with Serena van der Woodsen. He has held several writing-related roles, including having a poem called “Sluts” published in the The New Yorker; an internship at Red Letter, a prominent literary magazine; and a short stint as songwriter/lead singer for indie-rock sensation The Raves. He has a close relationship with his sister, Jenny and his father Rufus. Before realizing he loved Vanessa, he was confused about his sexuality and experimented with a guy named Greg. His absentee mother returns in the final book because she believes that he is gay. Dan is now attending the Evergreen State College in Washington. He is portrayed by Penn Badgley in the TV series.
   Jenny Humphrey
   The younger sister of Dan Humphrey, fourteen year old Jenny is the youngest of the Gossip Girl characters. She is 4’11” and has dazzling brown eyes and curly brown hair, is an aspiring artist and holds a secret desire to be a model like Serena van der Woodsen, whom she eventually befriends. Her best known physical attribute is her DD-chest which is a constant problem for her and is the main thing that separates her from looking like Serena. She often tries to fit in with the rich girls at her school, even though she does not hold a place in their social sphere. She often goes on wild and embarrassing escapades to set an image for herself and once accidentally starred in a photo shoot for an article entitled “Does Breast Size Matter?” She also allowed a scandalous video of her and Nate Archibald to circulate on the Internet and spent a lot of time with a popular indie rock band called the Raves. After Jenny gets kicked out of Constance Billard School for Girls, she ends up going to a boarding school, Waverly Academy, to reinvent herself as the “It Girl”, a la Serena. She is now the main character in a spin-off series of books called The It Girl. She is portrayed by Taylor Momsen in the TV series.
   Vanessa Abrams
   Vanessa is a budding filmmaker. She is the polar opposite of her Constance Billard School for Girls classmates. Her parents are hippie artists who live in Vermont, while her sister Ruby is bassist for the band SugarDaddy. She’s described in the books as pale and she shaves her own head. She has a shaky relationship with Dan Humphrey. After Ruby comes back from a world tour with her new fiance, Piotr, Vanessa moves in with the Humphreys, further complicating her relationship with Dan. She is attending NYU at the end of the book series. She is portrayed by Jessica Szohr in TV series.

   [edit] Secondary characters
   Chuck Bass
   Chuck is a rich, handsome, lust-driven, perverted antagonist whose list of the finer things in life is short: sex, alcohol, and rock and roll. He almost took advantage of a vulnerable Jenny Humphrey in a bathroom and tried to sleep with an inebriated Serena van der Woodsen, who he once kissed at a hot tub party. Chuck has an obnoxious pet monkey named Sweetie, who can often be found perching on his shoulder and wearing coordinated outfits. He is largely despised by other characters, but never ostracized due to his wealth and power. After he was not accepted to any of the colleges he applied to, he ends up going to military college. Chuck is largely a secondary character in the books, but in the TV series, he is portrayed as a primary character by British actor Ed Westwick.
   Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates
   They make up Blair’s former clique before Serena returned to New York City. They are two alumna socialites and Blair’s loyal sidekicks of Constance Billard School for Girls. Isabel was admitted to Princeton University, but she turned the Ivy down for Rollins College in Orlando, Florida because she wanted to attend college with her best friend, Kati. They are portrayed as followers of Blair and Serena and are constantly trying to copy their fashion sense. They are portrayed by Nan Zhang and Nicole Fiscella in the TV series.
   Erik van der Woodsen
   The older brother of Serena van der Woodsen. He once had a fling with Blair Waldorf. He attends Brown University. He is portrayed by Connor Paolo in the TV series as Serena’s younger brother.
   Aaron Rose
   The herb cigarette-smoking and vegan stepbrother of Blair Waldorf and son of Cyrus Rose. He drives a red Saab, and had a unrequited crush on his stepsister, Blair. Later on he dated both Serena and Vanessa, and was accepted to Harvard University. In the TV series he knows Serena van der Woodsen before he knows Blair Waldorf or her mother Eleanor Waldorf and he is portrayed by John Patrick Amedori in the TV series.
   Tyler Waldorf
   The younger brother of Blair Waldorf and a student at St. George’s. He was a constant joke when Serena and Blair were best friends, even dropping him off and making him walk home from the Lower East Side. He later got a girlfriend named Jasmine, who dated him because Blair is her role model. He is not mentioned in the TV series.
   Elise Wells
   Jenny’s b

   

   bring alex the horizon,
   January 17, 2013 at 8:26 pm
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3. There are a lot!
   Chuck Bass in the book is GAY lol and has a pet monkey.
   Blair and Nate are together.
   I was told that at the end of the series Blair and Serena came out the closet and the producers of the show says that that won’t happen at the end of the t.v. series.
   Blair has a brother.(book)
   Blair’s step brother is a hippie with dreads who goes to Harvard.(book)
   Blair’s step brother is a painter who dates Serena. (Series)
   Her step brother dates Serena in the both the book and series.
   Jenny has a large chest (book)
   she is very small (general) (series)
   In the book, really the plot is just about the same as the show in the book they just like go to parties and on trips and drama things like Serena wants a boyfriend and stuff goes on. All the plots in the book can be in the series cause they don’t differ much except Chuck is gay and not very smart and doesn’t like Blair (ofcourse) in the television series.
   xoxo Jeana

   

   Jeana
   January 17, 2013 at 9:06 pm
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